An eighth-grade girls lacrosse player recently made a verbal commitment to Syracuse. Penn State recently received a verbal commitment from an eighth-grade boys lacrosse player. An eighth-grade girls soccer player recently committed to Texas. Arizona received a commitment from an eighth-grade softball player. An eighth-grade football player already has received offers from Alabama, Michigan State, … Read more
Coaches are like piñatas being wildly swung at by blindfolded parents. “My son isn’t getting enough playing time.” “Her practices are terrible.” “He treats my kid like [bleep].” It goes on and on. But hindsight tells us that what happens to athletes — bad or good — is more telling in the future than in … Read more
College prospects should know that when they are practicing, they are honing their craft. We rarely think of sports in that vein, but it is time we do. The days have passed when athletics were played on sandlots, empty streets or vacant fields by unsupervised youngsters simply because they loved the game. Now kids are taking grounders, … Read more
I was recently talking to a parent of an athlete who told me his son would have almost enough credits to graduate after his junior year, so he was going to take a bunch of easy classes his senior year to pump up his GPA. I immediately replied: “No, no, no.” I may have said … Read more
We have lift off at National Scouting Report. NSR, the nation’s oldest and largest high school scouting and college recruiting organization, reported a successful launching Tuesday of Evolution 2.0, an upgrade of its state-of-the-art, interactive portal system for its 200 on-the-ground scouts and thousands of college prospects. Coming nine months after the original, Evolution 2.0 … Read more
It’s no fluke that four former National Scouting Report prospects will be playing in one of the biggest college football games of the young season Saturday afternoon, said Robert Cagle, National Director of Scouting for NSR. No. 1 Alabama, featuring former NSR prospects O.J. Howard (senior tight end), Bradley Bozeman (redshirt junior center) and Matt … Read more
High school athletes who want to be recruited go through three distinct phases. Orientation: Grades 9-10 High school student-athletes intent on advancing to the college level must initially cope with the jump in competition from youth to high school and more competitive club or travel sports. It’s no easy jump for a majority of athletes. Most … Read more
Every athlete has seen the corrective stare at some point. Coaches across the spectrum of athletics will level one at an athlete when their hot buttons are pushed. It could be due to lack of effort, forgetting a simple instruction, missing or ignoring a signal, or just doing something inane. Whatever the reason, the universally feared … Read more
Many high school athletes dream of being recruited by college coaches and receiving scholarship offers. Before that dream is shattered by a lack of knowledge, National Scouting Report would like to share 5 myths about the college recruiting process. The 5 Myths of College Recruiting 1. If you’re good enough, college coaches will find you. … Read more
National Scouting Report always has been America’s No. 1 college recruiting organization. And for prospects, parents and high school, club or travel coaches looking for proof of that bold statement, there is plenty of evidence to back up NSR’s motto as “The World’s Recruiting Authority.” Some experts have called NSR a boutique scouting service because … Read more
