Want to Play NCAA Sports? The Odds Are Not Good, but NSR Makes Them Far Better

Parents Alerted to Low-odd Ways to Promote Children 

The numbers are shocking, staggering and sobering. Of America’s high school seniors playing athletics, according to the NCAA, only a very few will advance to participate in sports at an NCAA member institution. These are not numbers parents and prospects think about, but they are real and daunting. If they were fully aware of the nearly insurmountable odds they will be facing, every parent in America would enroll their child with National Scouting Report the moment their child became eligible to be recruited, if not before. Why? It’s simple and glaring in its common sense: NSR helps to place over 90% of the prospects they work with.

Parents going it alone are in essence stealing their child’s dream. College coaches do not take seriously profile packages sent to them by parents. They want very little to do with parents, in fact. Given a sharp stick in the eye to dealing directly with prospects’ parents, it would be a toss-up. To coaches, 99.9 percent of all parents are a pain. Coaches are recruiting the kids, not the parents and starting the recruiting process with a parent between the coach and the prospect is tantamount to swimming the English Channel to get a cup of coffee. Really, it is that bad.

Parents that depend on their coaches to promote their children to college programs are spitting into the wind, and a stiff wind at that. In short, it’s a messy ordeal. The typical high school, travel or club coach knows about as many college coaches as there are fingers on Mickey Mouse’s right hand. No joke. While they may have three or four coaches’ cell numbers on speed dial, there’s little evidence over the 32 years NSR has been promoting high school prospects to every college in America to think otherwise. If you are a parent and think differently, ask the coach to pony up and show you all those contact numbers they have. If they roll out more than four, well, I’ll eat Mickey’s glove.

Parents who think that their local newspaper will draw a crowd of college coaches should either consider robbing their local convenient store or be prepared to come up with 80K, because after no coaches come calling that’s how much dough that gargantuan mistake is going to cost over the four years your kid is matriculating in college, minimum. Might want to buy three or four ski masks.

Are you down with it, yet? College athletic scholarships and roster spots are hard to come by, folks. They are the lifeblood of any college coach, literally and figuratively. If they make a wrong decision, their job is history. You know, the job they’ve worked all their adult lives to get? Yeah, that one. Why would a coach take the word of a parent, or the word of a coach they don’t know? Does that make good sense? Are they more likely to consider a prospect that has been vetted by a professional, on-the-ground college scout who has full profile and contact info for them along with digitized video? See? Doesn’t that make a lot more sense?  Thought so. 

Meanwhile, there will be stubborn, and ignorant, parents who will go it alone, depend on their coaches and hope that something comes their way. Those parents will make bad decisions, well intended, granted, but bad nonetheless because they think they can save a few hundreds bucks, take the easy-greasy way or get lucky. Well, it just doesn’t work that way and gambling your kid’s future on historically low-odds solutions is really, truly unconscionable. Then, when the dust storm dies down and the waiting is over, the kid is the one left standing without his or her dream fulfilled. Really, get a grip, will ya?  It’s never too late to do the right thing, especially when your kid’s concerned.

Here are the estimates published by the NCAA:

• One in 35, or 3.1 percent, of high school senior boys playing interscholastic basketball (Editor’s note:  That is approximately one senior from every seven high school teams.)
• Three in 100, or 3.5 percent, of senior girls basketball players  ((EN:  Three seniors from every 20 high school teams.)
•  6.0 percent, or less than one in 16, of all high school senior boys playing football  (EN:  One senior for every two teams.) 
• Three in 50, or about 6.4 percent, of high school senior boys playing baseball  (EN:  Three from every six teams.)
• Less than three in 50, or about 5.6 percent of high school senior boy soccer players  (EN:  Three from every seven teams.)