Working Hard Can Never Take a Break for High School Prospects How many times have you seen really good youth league athletes flame out by the time they reached high school?  And, how many of those flameouts can be attributed to laziness?  It’s something we see everyday in high school sports scouting — that an athlete is pointed out to us who … Read more

Prospects Are Competing with Others with Solid Fundamentals Watching videos of the recent NFL combines,  it was very impressive to watch players at every position go through timed and fundamental drills for pro scouts.  Seldom would a participant sacrifice form for speed.  Their focus on the smallest details of their position should send a message … Read more

When the NCAA chose to ban its football coaches from subscribing to “scouting services,” it was a good-news, bad-news issue for us at National Scouting Report, the nation’s first and most revered high school scouting service in the world.  First, the bad news.  Most media outlets, apparently not knowing the difference between “pay wall” services … Read more

Good things happen to those who wait is a fitting adage for freshman outfielder and former NSR prospect, Max Hardman from Encinitas, CA, who launched a dramatic walk-off grand slam to secure the University of Redlands baseball team’s 9-6 victory over the 13th-ranked Pomona-Pitzer Sagehens last Saturday.  Hardman entered the game in the eighth inning and eventually … Read more

Your Starting Point is When You Set Your Sights on the Finish Line From the moment you know in your heart that wanting to participate in college athletics is a serious goal, recruiting for you starts.  It’s in the moment that everything you do in your sport takes added significance.  You are standing on the starting … Read more

NSR’s 31-year History Has Seen No NCAA Intervention or Controversy National Scouting Report started the high school scouting industry in 1980.  In 31 years, we have never had any issues with the NCAA regarding how we have operated our scouting organization.  Unlike Rivals.com and other like-recruiting services which require a paid subscription by college coaches … Read more

In Your World, Being Top Banana Means You Have a Scholarship Chance, or Does It? Face it, there are more than one fish in the sea.  And in recruiting, college coaches are having the fishing expedition of a lifetime.  Granted, they have to go through the ordeal of finding the fish they want, but the … Read more

I love a good story.  Sure, it may have been more appealing for VCU or Butler to have won the men’s national NCAA basketball titles this past week, but the fact that they made such Hoosier-like runs to the Final Four showed basketball fans everywhere that betting on college basketball is a dangerous occupation, indeed, … Read more

Junior Running Back Doesn’t Allow Size to Slow Him Down National Scouting Report works with prospects at all degrees of ability, size, speed and strength.  As long as they have the talent play at some college level, we can be of enormous help in getting their names and profiles into the hands of hundreds of … Read more

The Occasional Glance Over Your Shoulder Should Keep You Safe Ever drive down the Interstate, start to pull into the left lane to pass a slower car and hear the blaring horn of another vehicle cruising behind on your left in the “blind spot?”  If a college athletic prospect is not careful and ever watchful, the … Read more