Want to be popular? Tell college volleyball coaches you work with a sophomore who touches 10’1″. The high 9’s would warrant 30 seconds of their time, but 10’1″? You will have their full attention for as long as you want it. When a bunch of coaches get wind that there’s an Ohio kid whose head is over the net when … Read more
You don’t have to go far to discover the difference between National Scouting Report and its competitors. First: Internet and telemarketing-based recruiting services are a waste of time. Or so say the many families that have used them. Then some of those families get offered the opportunity to be a part of the NSR Scouting organization. … Read more
Rod Woodson, Jon Kitna and Marty Hurney share more in common than the NFL. Each has selected NSR to promote his kid to college coaches. Understand, please, these are extremely well-connected people. They have experienced every step of the recruiting process. What college coach would not know their names? Not many, that is for sure. … Read more
NSR scout Ken Carlyle has truly experienced an incredible journey. A high-school, two-sport phenom from Memphis, Tennessee, Carlyle was highly recruited in both baseball and basketball coming out of Briar Crest Christian High School. If that school’s name rings a bell, rightfully so. A few years after Ken graduated along came a young offensive lineman … Read more
Club volleyball tryouts are over and teams have been made. Every player is excited to start practice with her new team because this will be the year she will be recruited, or will it? We see and hear it over and over again. “My daughter plays club volleyball so she will get seen. Her club … Read more
Take two essential ingredients out of a recipe and it’s ruined. Everybody knows that. But the back story is that you’ve wasted your valuable time and hard-earned money in the process. You can compare cooking to recruiting. Don’t laugh. I’m about to make my point, so stay with me. There is a recipe and then … Read more
