The Human Element and Effectiveness Separate NSR from other High School Scouting Companies

When high school prospects and their parents go in search of assistance with recruiting, there are today a plethora of options.  But we assert that no option matches the needs of families like National Scouting Report, or more widely known as NSR.  But, why is that true?

Families typically want two assurances.  First, that they will work with a person that personally knows them and especially their athlete.  Second, they want effectiveness.  NSR offers both, without reservation.

At NSR, our scouts are real scouts.  We constantly train them on the fundamentals of scouting, how to help our student-athlete-client families succeed in recruiting, which recruiting rules and developments in the NCAA, NAIA and NJCAA have the most impact on our clients, and how to best identify the client-families which meet our high standards.  This is not an easy process which we undertake.  If that were so, every so-called scouting organization would be doing it.  Instead, it takes focus and a high degree of analysis, education and implementation.  Examine other companies closely and you will uncover that they do not take the tough road to your success.  In fishing, you have heard of the catch-and-release method?  Simplified, that is what far too many scouting companies do.

A quick glance at the NSR athlete roster proves this.  We do not accept everyone.  Our personally selected athletes must rise to a higher level of skill, academic competence, character and family support than the average high-school athlete.  They must first be capable of playing at some level of college competition.  They must have a keen desire to play in college.  They must demonstrate an uncommon dedication to maintaining solid grades and test scores.  And, we must see a history of emotional and financial support from their families.

Why are these criteria so important?  Because 34 years of working with college coaches clearly tells us that those are the qualities a large majority of coaches search for when recruiting athletes for their programs.  That means that the odds are heavily stacked in the favor of every NSR prospect when it comes to being evaluated and recruited.

At NSR, it is our belief that only through personal contact between an athlete, family and scout can these objectives be met.  And by personal, we do not mean via the telephone.  It would be generous to even refer to that method as remote scouting.  Plainly, we are not an open-enrollment company that will take the hard-earned money of just any willing family and post their info online with promises of getting recruited.  Nor are we a telemarketing juggernaut with rooms full of “scouts” whose prime purpose is to lure (there’s that fishing reference, again) potential clients with recruiting promises without ever having personally scouted the athlete or, for that matter, having met them, watched them on film or worse yet verified their profile info.

That said, at NSR we are human, not automated minions, so we are not perfect.  We do our best, but like any human-related endeavor, we will occasionally trip.  However, it is our full and sincere intention to offer each of our prospects one-on-one service from a personal scout, extraordinary marketing, and exceptional results.  Our collective goal?  To raise our client-athletes above the fray, which is what the modern recruiting process has become, through methods which are time-honored and respected by college coaches.  We know what works for both the aspiring athlete and the coaches wanting to discover them.  We know because we have more experience in the field than any other scouting organization in America, or around the globe, in fact.  We know because we could not have excelled in the business of recruiting if our methods and our hearts were not in the right place.