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Get Scouted Scouting CareersOne of the first questions National Scouting Report scouts often ask potential college prospects is: How far are you willing to travel to play college sports?
Many times, those high school athletes respond: “I want to stay close to home.”
Wrong answer.
NSR scouts would prefer them to say: “I’m open-minded.”
National Scouting Report promotes high school athletes to every college and junior college in the country. By limiting themselves to schools close to home, prospects are ruling out more than 90 percent of the ones that have a chance to recruit them.
Why do that?
It’s understandable why high school athletes want to play close to home. Their families can watch them play more often, and they could have more opportunities to return home on weekends and school breaks. However, if prospects want the most scholarship offers, resulting in the most scholarship money, they need to keep their options open.
Just like college sports, college recruiting is all about competition. Even if a prospect has no interest in a particular school, he or she should want to receive a scholarship offer from that school. That way the bar is set. Schools in which he or she is really interested likely would have to match or beat that offer.
If a prospect receives just one college offer, he or she has only two choices: take it or leave it. If he or she receives multiple offers, then the prospect has an advantage.
What’s more, if high school athletes don’t keep their options open, how would they know if colleges in other parts of the country have any interest in them? High school athletes on the East Coast could be passing up opportunities at Stanford or Southern Cal. High school athletes in the North could be passing up opportunities at Duke or North Carolina.
Why do that?
The beauty of NSR is that it promotes student-athletes to colleges on all academic and athletic levels in all parts of the country. Prospects aren’t limited. They get what they deserve. In most cases, multiple offers.
In the end, prospects make the final decision where they want to go. If they keep their options open, they could choose between the best academic schools, best athletic programs, best scholarship offers or schools closest to home.
Who knows? They could have the best of all worlds.
It doesn’t get any better than that.
National Scouting Report is dedicated to finding scholarship opportunities for athletes who possess the talent, desire, and motivation to compete at the collegiate level. We’ve helped connect thousands of athletes with their perfect college.
Great article…. On the west coast most kids want to stay close to home but after the interview and they realize that they should be open minded