Puerto Rico Volleyball Tournament Announcement Demonstrates NSR’s Reach with DI Coaches

DI Colleges Flock to Top NSR-sponsored Event

At National Scouting Report, we love to debunk myths pertaining to high school scouting and college recruiting, and believe us, there are a bunch of them.  Proving that naysayers, pseudo scouts, and wannabe talking heads wrong, especially when their advice is intended to discredit our industry,  or more specifically our company, are full of hot air is one of the many rewarding outcomes  in our role as legitimate, professional high school scouts. 

As we sit on the sidelines listening to “experts” go on ad nausea about scouting and recruiting, decorum requires us to turn the other cheek, or ear as it were.  The people who claim to have a clue about recruiting, but who really don’t, are the very people who create much of the havoc and heartache experienced by high school prospects and their families.  Yet, when the prospect which had followed the expert’s advice ends up with no scholarship offers, the pot stirrers are nowhere to be seen. 

It’s a pitiful story which repeats itself year after year in communities large and small.  There apparently is no end to the long line of so-called pundits willing to spout off their erroneous opinions just so they can:  A) Sound impressive and boost their own egos and faulty status, and/or B) Feel as though they are controlling a family’s decisions and steering an athlete’s destiny. 

Know this, please:  It is all we can do not to jump and down on the hood of the nearest car and yell out, “Do not listen to the rubbish.  What they are saying is not the way recruiting works!”  But, professionalism requires that we maintain our self control and permit people to make decisions for themselves, squirming in our seats as another family gets hoodwinked into thinking they don’t need help their athlete get recognized, evaluated and recruited.

See, there are people whose mission is to intentionally keep parents and high school athletes in the Dark Ages about the recruiting process.  It’s their way of maintaining some sort of twisted control over the actions of their friends, relatives or local athletes.  It’s such a sad, sad thing to see — young athletes and their parents held back in their attempt to secure a college scholarship because somebody has the need to appear to be an authority figure when in reality they are taking the family down a dead end road.  These people are, to be blunt, ignorant about the NCAA, it’s rules and how a family can best navigate through the restrictions as well as openings to emerge with genuine options to consider.     

All that said, the claim we want to debunk?  NSR’s reach does not extend deep into NCAA Division I athletic programs.  This myth is wrong, by a half court hook shot that hits nothing but net.  Here’s the in-your-face proof.

Last week our scout in Puerto Rico informed us about a boys and girls high school volleyball tournament taking place there.  As is our normal policy, we distributed an announcement to every college coach in America detailing the event.  Within 48 hours, we had received notes from over 100 coaches, nearly half from NCAA DI coaches, communicating their recruiting needs, requesting additional details, or thanking us for passing along info on the tournament.  Some of the top volleyball programs in the nation responded. 

To the pessimists, National Scouting Report is the premier high school scouting and college recruiting organization in the world.  We have been helping high school athletes to secure college scholarship offers since 1980, or 31 years.  Thousands upon thousands of young athletes have participated in college athletics because of our specialized assistance.  We produce excellent results because we are the industry leaders and do not compromise on the quality of athletes we enroll or the intensity with which we promote them to college coaches.  Our standards are second to none in the scouting and recruiting industry and we are extremely pround of the work we do and the prospects we represent.