AI is everywhere right now. It can help you write an essay, plan a workout, or even come up with a meal plan, but when it comes to your recruiting process, trusting artificial intelligence could cost you everything you’ve worked for.
We’ve already seen it happen. Families have shown us information that AI recruiting websites and chatbots have generated, and some of it is completely wrong. Not just “a little off,” but wrong enough that if they had followed it, their athlete’s eligibility would have been jeopardized.
Here’s the problem: AI doesn’t understand NCAA rules, recruiting calendars, or compliance like an experienced scout does. It doesn’t know you, your sport, or where you fit in the process. It just pulls information from the internet — and there’s a lot of bad information out there.
AI also doesn’t know you as a person or an athlete. It doesn’t know what kind of college experience you want, what you want to study, what level you can realistically compete at, or what specific college coaches are actually looking for. Recruiting isn’t about plugging stats into an equation, it’s about matching the right athlete with the right school at the right time, both on and off the field. That takes relationships, experience, and real human understanding.
The real recruiting process isn’t one-size-fits-all. Every sport, level, and athlete’s journey looks different. That’s why relying on something, or someone, that doesn’t see the full picture can be risky. Your eligibility and your future are too important to gamble with.
At NSR, our scouts are trusted by athletes, families, college coaches, and NCAA compliance offices nationwide. That trust comes from doing things the right way — relying on real experience, not artificial intelligence.
AI can be a helpful tool, but it should never make the decisions that shape your future. When it comes to recruiting, you need real people with real expertise, not a computer guessing its way through the recruiting world.
Your recruiting journey deserves experience, not algorithms. Trust the experts who live and breathe recruiting every day, not a machine that doesn’t understand what’s at stake.
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