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In this, the Golden Era of athletic recruiting, college coaches may as well be in a candy store that stocks only their favorite chocolate bar. They’ve never had it so good. Coaches are inundated with info from camps, clinics, combines, showcases, tournaments, emails, texts and snail mail. It is impossible for them to cover it all and to consider every prospect.
All this makes picking only low fruit awfully tempting. Out of necessity, some coaches go that route. There simply is not enough time coupled with manpower in the form of assistant coaches. They do what they have to do and get by the best they can given their circumstances.
A majority of head coaches, however, do have assistants. Over the years many have developed systems for recognizing and selecting recruits that work well for their programs. Additionally, because of the surge in the number of prospects available to them, most coaches today enjoy the luxury of climbing the tree a good bit higher in search of even more fruit from which to select. That gives coaches more choices along with the liberty of pushing aside the prospects who fail to meet their basic criteria.
In the 35-plus years that National Scouting Report has worked hand-in-hand with college coaches, our on-the-ground team of scouts has developed meaningful and lasting relationships with hundreds of college coaches. Our scouts are frequent guests in their offices. They discuss scouting, rules, recruiting and recruits. As a result, we’ve taught our future scouts about the current college coach culture and how college recruiting really works.
It’s a culture in which coaches are observing far more and better individual student-athletes than they ever have before. The basket is overflowing.
The downside? It’s also a culture in which a coach can dispose of a promising prospect on the spot without so much as a nod and wave.
At NSR, we’ve compiled a list of the words which kill a prospect’s chances of being recruited. They are the five words prospects never want to hear a college coach use when describing them:
- Selfish
- Lazy
- Disrespectful
- Irresponsible
- Negative
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.