About NSR Staff Deciding to Commit is the Tipping Point To many high school athletes whose desire it is to advance to the college level, work ethic usually relates to how hard they practice and then play their sport, and that estimation is an individual perspective at best. They hear coaches, parents and fans say, “Work hard!” They hear it … Read more
It’s a Dance You May Have to Do Every Year There is no easy way around it – the moment high school athletes decide to get involved with a travel (club) team, they (the athletes) risk entering the Forbidden Zone where two competing coaches constantly paw at the ground for attention, loyalty and supremacy. Like … Read more
Young Athletes Can Take Instruction from Penn State Debacle Hidden in the ruckus of the Penn State scandal is the effect one bad decision has had on a lifetime of good work by Nittany Lion head football coach Joe Paterno and how it sends a clear and vital message. It’s a lesson which should not … Read more
Rochester Professor Finds Cumulative Effect of Football Collisions A study by Jianhui Zhong, a professor of imaging sciences and physics at the University of Rochester, has produced surprising as well as disturbing outcomes. A football player on the Rochester team, Jeff Bazarian, had experienced a mild concussion and Zhong thought that a test his department was using for other purposes called … Read more
These Six Things Will Put You in a Solid Position to be Evaluated Good grades. In today’s recruiting environment, the first things coaches go to are a prospect’s grades. Take care of your academic business. Include your core course GPA and any standardized test results. Without good grades your options will be limited. Club team involvement. After grades coaches want … Read more
Our Uniquely Effective Approach Has Made Us the Standard Bearer for 32 Years National Scouting Report (NSR) is the world’s oldest high school scouting organization. NSR scouts do most of the initial work for college coaches by identifying legitimate college prospects. We do not accept every prospect because our reputation rides on our ability to provide … Read more
Facing the Music Early Helps to Make the Recruiting Process Smoother Determining which level of competition you realistically fit is a necessary first step toward considering and eventually accepting scholarship offers. Over blowing your status in particular can easily result in missing solid scholarship opportunities. Parents, friends and high school, club or travel coaches, and … Read more
Jump Aboard Today for Updates on Recruiting and the NCAA Want to see how social media effectively works in college recruiting from the pros? Go to www.facebook.com/NationalScoutingReport and www.twitter.com/NSRnow to see our daily postings on current and former NSR prospects that are doing great things in high school and beyond. Keep up with Oklahoma Sooner starting and … Read more
Don’t Wait Another Day Do you want a college athletic scholarship? If yes, from the day you start in the ninth grade, your recruiting clock is ticking. So, what you do today counts. Either you are in the game or you are out of the game. Which are you? If you are in, are you getting results? Are coaches … Read more
Once You’re On the Big Board, You May Have to Push Yourself Up the Ladder Every college coach has a “white board.” For the uninformed, it’s where the top recruits are listed and it’s usually prominent in a college coach’s office. That white board is a constant reminder of who’s at the top of the … Read more
