I love a good story. Sure, it may have been more appealing for VCU or Butler to have won the men’s national NCAA basketball titles this past week, but the fact that they made such Hoosier-like runs to the Final Four showed basketball fans everywhere that betting on college basketball is a dangerous occupation, indeed, … Read more
Junior Running Back Doesn’t Allow Size to Slow Him Down National Scouting Report works with prospects at all degrees of ability, size, speed and strength. As long as they have the talent play at some college level, we can be of enormous help in getting their names and profiles into the hands of hundreds of … Read more
The Occasional Glance Over Your Shoulder Should Keep You Safe Ever drive down the Interstate, start to pull into the left lane to pass a slower car and hear the blaring horn of another vehicle cruising behind on your left in the “blind spot?” If a college athletic prospect is not careful and ever watchful, the … Read more
We may be in for an ugly spring and summer as the underbelly of NCAA football’s highest level begins to reveal itself in front of us on the Internet and sports outlets nationwide. With the Fiesta Bowl scandal, ex-Auburn football players telling all about alleged pay-for-play schemes and Ohio State head coach Jim Tressel finding … Read more
DI Colleges Flock to Top NSR-sponsored Event At National Scouting Report, we love to debunk myths pertaining to high school scouting and college recruiting, and believe us, there are a bunch of them. Proving that naysayers, pseudo scouts, and wannabe talking heads wrong, especially when their advice is intended to discredit our industry, or more specifically our company, … Read more
Your Best Future Could Rest within Smaller School Options The excitement over Butler and VCU advancing to the Final Four in the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament is well-founded. We’ve seen the changes coming with previous underdogs George Mason (2006) and Butler (2010) advancing to the pinnacle of college basketball. But this year is different. These DI stepchildren … Read more
Putting the shot. Now, that’s an interesting phrase and one you don’t often hear. But, for former National Scouting Report track and field prospect, Rachel Aliotta, putting the shot it is something which has allowed her to secure a college athletic scholarship to one of the top academic institutions on the East Coast. The Monmouth University freshman … Read more
Scholarship Offers Always Start with Recognition Lot’s of seniors and juniors are looking over their shoulders. They are wondering where all those college coaches are which their parents and coaches told them would be knocking down their doors if they would only do this and that. Desperately wanting to compete at the next level, they’ve … Read more
If we’ve learned anything from this year’s NCAA Division I men’s basketball tournament, it is that the term Mid-major Program is a thing of the past. Up and down the March Madness bracket spectrum, “smaller” schools have run roughshod over their bigger brothers. The Richmond’s, VCU’s, George Mason’s, Butler’s, Gonzaga’s and the like are consistently … Read more
Young Athletes Should Be Willing to Play at the Level They Are Recruited The number of high school athletes who believe they should play at the premier level of college sports is too large to contemplate, much less calculate. The available high-level spots for incoming freshmen are extremely limited and the big time programs have … Read more
