{"id":10770,"date":"2016-06-09T04:30:45","date_gmt":"2016-06-09T09:30:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/?p=10770"},"modified":"2016-06-08T12:07:12","modified_gmt":"2016-06-08T17:07:12","slug":"20-questions-test-your-college-recruiting-knowledge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/20-questions-test-your-college-recruiting-knowledge\/","title":{"rendered":"20 Questions: Test Your College Recruiting Knowledge"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"NSR<\/a>We are coming to the end of another school year.<\/p>\n

Hopefully, our National Scouting Report recruiting seminars and blogs have taught you a thing or two about college recruiting in the past year.<\/p>\n

Before you depart for the summer, NSR would like to test your recruiting knowledge. Below are 20 true-false questions that may make you think twice:<\/p>\n

(Answers appear at the bottom.)<\/p>\n

QUESTIONS:<\/strong><\/p>\n

1. True or False: <\/strong>About 6 percent of high school seniors will play college sports.<\/p>\n

2. True or False: <\/strong>About 2 percent of high school seniors will receive full or partial athletic scholarships.<\/p>\n

3. True or False: <\/strong>About 2 percent of high school athletes will play in Division I.<\/p>\n

4. True of False: <\/strong>Football awards the highest average percentage of full scholarship money among men\u2019s college sports.<\/p>\n

5. True or False: <\/strong>Basketball awards the highest average percentage of full scholarship money among women\u2019s college sports.<\/p>\n

6. True or False: <\/strong>Wrestling has the lowest percentage of high school boys competing in college.<\/p>\n

7. True or False: <\/strong>Track and field has the lowest percentage of high school girls competing in college.<\/p>\n

8. True or False: <\/strong>Athletes can receive verbal offers from college coaches and make verbal commitments at any age.<\/p>\n

9. True or False: <\/strong>Most college coaches make more verbal offers than they have available scholarships.<\/p>\n

10. True or False: <\/strong>High school athletes can\u2019t sign National Letters of Intent until their senior year.<\/p>\n

11. True or False: <\/strong>All high school athletes who want to play college sports must register with the NCAA Eligibility Center.<\/p>\n

12. True or False: <\/strong>Only two NCAA divisions — Divisions I and II — offer athletic scholarships.<\/p>\n

13. True or False: <\/strong>Athletic scholarships are guaranteed for four years.<\/p>\n

14. True or False: <\/strong>Division III has the most member schools in the NCAA.<\/p>\n

15. True or False: <\/strong>NCAA Division I and II coaches are not permitted to initiate contact with athletes by email or telephone until their sophomore year.<\/p>\n

16. True or False: <\/strong>Athletes can initiate contact with college coaches by email or telephone at any time.<\/p>\n

17. True or False: <\/strong>High school athletes must complete at least 12 core courses to be eligible to compete in college athletics.<\/p>\n

18. True or False: <\/strong>High school athletes can visit colleges at any time if they pay their own way.<\/p>\n

19. True or False: <\/strong>High school athletes can take the SAT and ACT an unlimited number of times with only the highest scores counting toward NCAA eligibility.<\/p>\n

20. True or False: <\/strong>High school athletes can receive athletic or academic scholarships, but not both.<\/p>\n

ANSWERS:<\/strong><\/p>\n

1. True; 2. True; 3. True; 4. False (ice hockey); 5. False (ice hockey and gymnastics); 6. True; 7. True; 8. True; 9. True; 10. True; 11. False (athletes who want to play NCAA Division I or II sports); 12. True; 13. True and False (NCAA Division I schools can offer 4-year guaranteed scholarships; Division II schools only can offer yearly scholarships); 13. True; 14. True; 15. False (after their sophomore year); 16. True; 17. False (16); 18. True; 19. True; 20. False (both).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We are coming to the end of another school year. Hopefully, our National Scouting Report recruiting seminars and blogs have taught you a thing or two about college recruiting in the past year. Before you depart for the summer, NSR would like to test your recruiting knowledge. Below are 20 true-false questions that may make … 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":[31,222],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10770"}],"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=10770"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10770\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14855,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10770\/revisions\/14855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}