{"id":12159,"date":"2016-10-14T04:30:56","date_gmt":"2016-10-14T09:30:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/?p=12159"},"modified":"2016-10-13T09:16:13","modified_gmt":"2016-10-13T14:16:13","slug":"social-media-can-make-or-break-college-prospects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/social-media-can-make-or-break-college-prospects\/","title":{"rendered":"Social Media Can Make Or Break College Prospects"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Prospects should keep a close eye on all their social media pages to avoid problems with college coaches.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Social media echoes a prospect’s\u00a0character through words\u00a0and pictures to coaches.<\/p>\n

A prospect’s chances of being recruited can, in fact, be enhanced or ruined by how they manage their social media pages. The proof comes from the day-to-day work National Scouting Report scouts do with their prospects.<\/p>\n

It is not uncommon for NSR scouts to contact prospects and advise them to delete posts. Carelessness is not rampant for most prospects, but it is a temptation which has a constant presence.<\/p>\n

Here are four things prospects can do to avoid having their reputation or character sullied:<\/p>\n

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  1. Avoid posting negative personal feelings about anything.<\/strong>\u00a0Social media is no place to expose or express anger, jealousy, bullying or the like. \u00a0Once that happens and others share it, things only can go downhill from there.<\/li>\n
  2. Avoid sharing a negative post from someone else.<\/strong>\u00a0It is not your place to spread anything but good cheer and news. Let less careful others take the low road. Stay above the fray.<\/li>\n
  3. Avoid posting pictures which show you in compromising or unflattering positions.<\/strong>\u00a0No coach wants to recruit a prospect who does not possess self-respect or does not understand that such a post casts a negative reflection on them and their team.<\/li>\n
  4. Remove any distasteful post on your wall from someone else. <\/strong>Do not permit others to damage your reputation or character by failing to monitor your social media pages.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    If you want to impress college coaches, keep all social media pages as positive as possible. They are looking. You can be sure of that.<\/p>\n

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    Social media echoes a prospect’s\u00a0character through words\u00a0and pictures to coaches. A prospect’s chances of being recruited can, in fact, be enhanced or ruined by how they manage their social media pages. The proof comes from the day-to-day work National Scouting Report scouts do with their prospects. It is not uncommon for NSR scouts to contact … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":12462,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[879,31,57,222,878],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12159"}],"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=12159"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12461,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12159\/revisions\/12461"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}