{"id":10342,"date":"2016-05-10T04:30:55","date_gmt":"2016-05-10T09:30:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/?p=10342"},"modified":"2016-05-09T08:27:58","modified_gmt":"2016-05-09T13:27:58","slug":"college-recruiting-is-a-3-dimensional-process","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/college-recruiting-is-a-3-dimensional-process\/","title":{"rendered":"College Recruiting is a 3-Dimensional Process"},"content":{"rendered":"
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NSR scout Scott Woodcock (right) poses with three prospects he is helping to go through college recruiting’s third dimension.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

At National Scouting Report, our scouts and office staff have worked with thousands of high school athletes and their parents during our 36-year history. \u00a0Rarely, however, do we see families that truly understand how recruiting actually works, its complexities and nuances.<\/p>\n

Most families think recruiting is two-dimensional. In truth, it is three-dimensional.<\/p>\n

If you have seen three-dimensional\u00a0chess boards, you can imagine the complex nature of an already highly intellectual\u00a0game under those circumstances. \u00a0The added layers make a complicated game even more\u00a0intimidating, especially for novices.<\/p>\n

College recruiting has far more layers than most families anticipate: from communicating and negotiating with admissions counselors and their offices; to arranging for productive\u00a0on-campus visits; to developing fruitful relationships with coaches, team members and professors; to acting responsibly under NCAA and NAIA recruiting rules; to the ancillary academic eligibility process; to paying for college.<\/p>\n

All of this happens in a condensed time frame. The pressures can easily overwhelm teenagers as well as mature adults. \u00a0In short, it is a tough road to travel with many moving parts to navigate and frequently too little time to do it. A few families make it on their own, but most fail, as NSR scouts have witnessed time and time again.<\/p>\n

Sometimes families simply need short instructions and a nudge in the right direction. Other times they need a scout to be the driver. \u00a0Regardless, NSR does what is needed by each individual family.<\/p>\n

That is why NSR was founded in 1980 by visionary Bob Rigney — to relieve families of this burdensome journey. Rigney’s own son, a solid high school baseball player, was getting no attention from college coaches. Rigney, who owned a printing company, decided to do something about his son’s situation. He printed one-page bio sheets and mailed them to college coaches. To his surprise, many responded and were interested in recruiting his son.<\/p>\n

That success inspired Rigney to start a business helping other prospects get noticed by college coaches. NSR became the first college scouting service in America. Today, it is the largest on-the-ground, one-on-one, personal recruiting organization in the world. NSR scouts work in the communities in which they live and help families to successfully navigate all those trappings in recruiting’s obscure third dimension.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

At National Scouting Report, our scouts and office staff have worked with thousands of high school athletes and their parents during our 36-year history. \u00a0Rarely, however, do we see families that truly understand how recruiting actually works, its complexities and nuances. Most families think recruiting is two-dimensional. In truth, it is three-dimensional. If you have … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[273,31,57,222],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10342"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10342"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10342\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10439,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10342\/revisions\/10439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}