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

Put an Academic Plan Together to Cut Student Loans According to a report by National Public Radio, college “students are borrowing more money to pay for college than ever before. New data shows that students who graduated in 2010 carried 5 percent more debt than in the previous year. And education debt is expect to grow … Read more

This Four-Step Process is Consistent for Every College Athletic Prospect The road to winning a college athletic scholarship is a clear one. Four steps, that’s all it takes. But, it’s how you take those crucial steps that counts. First, you have to be recognized. No college coach can start recruiting you until he or she … Read more

It’s True, Choices Abound, but Only One Pick Will Get Real Results You want a college athletic scholarship.  Your grades are good.  Your competitive drive is strong.  And, your will to reach your goals is focused.  But, not enough colleges are showing you interest.  You’re paddling upstream and don’t know how to change course.   Thinking back, … Read more

New Regs, If Passed, Will Change the Face of DI College Sports Buoyed by the recent good news that graduation rates for student-athletes have improved in Division I, the NCAA is on the precipice of ramping up their academic standards to an even higher margin. A press release Tuesday on www.ncaa.com put the word out that … Read more

The Next Few Weeks Will Provide Answers to Shaky Questions Across the BCS Board All the hype surrounding the upcoming Alabama-LSU matchup is legitimate.  It will be the first ever 1 versus 2 head-to-head clash between SEC football programs in the regular season, at least at this late stage of the season.  So, that alone makes the game … Read more

DI Members Will Be Pinched to Make it Happen, Though  It’s coming, finally. News has hit the street that NCAA embattled president Mark Emmert is making preparations to deliver a proposal to NCAA DI institutions that they increase the amount of athletic grants by two thousand dollars to “to more closely approach the full cost of … Read more

Researchers Are Grasping for Answers as Law Enforcement Jumps in to Help We don’t really know enough, yet, about synthetic marijuana, otherwise known as K2 or Spice, but the early indicators are that the substance contains ingredients which are having a devastating effect on consumers that ingest it. Law enforcement around the United States are … Read more

College Coaches Want Mature Recruits   There is no way around it, as an athlete and college prospect you will make mistakes. Sometimes they will be innocuous and have little or no impact on a contest. Other times, your miscues will hold more significance. One might even result in you or your team losing. Regardless, they will … Read more

The “D” Word Is a Mess On the Hands of Parents That Let It Happen Every week we are hearing it happening in high school across the land.  It’s a shameless action taken by an immature prep athlete.  In life it would be called going back on one’s word.  In recruiting it’s called decommitting.  Heck, look … Read more