{"id":1241,"date":"2010-09-10T11:01:19","date_gmt":"2010-09-10T17:01:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.nsr-inc.com\/\/?p=1241"},"modified":"2010-09-10T11:01:19","modified_gmt":"2010-09-10T17:01:19","slug":"we-the-breakfast-of-coaches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/we-the-breakfast-of-coaches\/","title":{"rendered":"WE, the Breakfast of…Coaches!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Ask any college coach this question:\u00a0 What one trait do you most covet in a high school prospect?\u00a0 Work ethic (WE) will be at or near the top of the list.\u00a0 Even with all the hubbub of late about character, WE wins out. For 30 years, NSR<\/strong> <\/a>scouts have been working with college coaches to help them fill recruiting needs.\u00a0 We’ve been through it all with coaches from the pinnacle of college athletics to community colleges with practically no recruiting budgets to speak of, yet there has been a consistent thread when discussing the prospects they want in their programs — kids who work hard.\u00a0<\/p>\n

There’s an intrinsic value to WE and it trumps nearly all other desirable traits.\u00a0 Why?\u00a0 It’s simple.\u00a0 A dependable, strong WE is transferable to almost any other aspect of college athletics, academics and life.\u00a0 Once confirmed as a constant in an athlete, coaches can foresee excellent outcomes even if the prospect might be borderline in other areas, including character.\u00a0 Coaches will, in fact, take more chances on prospects who possess proven, excellent work ethics than practically anything else\u00a0prep athletes might potentially bring to the table.<\/p>\n

It’s a trait which is born and demonstrated early, if not\u00a0naturally, in individuals.\u00a0 Kids with good WEs enjoy the day-to-day challenge of pushing themselves one step closer toward\u00a0reaching their dreams and goals.\u00a0 They’re the ones outside shooting hoops until bedtime or the kids sitting in the SUV waiting for somebody, anybody, to get in the driver’s seat and get on the road.\u00a0 It’s a pride thing\u00a0which many great athletic kids\u00a0can’t muster up on a consistent basis.\u00a0 It’s\u00a0either there or it’s not.\u00a0<\/p>\n

College coaches love to see proof of a prospect’s WE.\u00a0 Documentation of workouts and verifiable\u00a0speed and quickness times are\u00a0reliable indicators which coaches can refer to with some\u00a0degree of confidence.\u00a0 And,\u00a0the best kids, that is, the ones who are focused on their future and their progress,\u00a0know\u00a0where they started, where they are now and where they are headed.\u00a0\u00a0It’s a familiar story.\u00a0\u00a0On the other hand, prospects whose personalities lean more toward the lazier side of life are usually\u00a0unable to recite any such story and rarely have a top notch WE.\u00a0 They don’t know their story because they aren’t mentally committed to their own future.\u00a0 Good athlete, yes.\u00a0 Future college athlete,\u00a0ehhhh, not likely.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

You want to see the WE?\u00a0 Look for the kid who arrives\u00a0early and stays late.\u00a0 Find the one who isn’t talking a lot between sets or whose practice uniform never seems to be clean.\u00a0 Home in on the\u00a0one who cares about getting better today than yesterday.\u00a0 This\u00a0is the\u00a0kid who has a grasp of the\u00a0future.\u00a0 This is the\u00a0athlete who makes\u00a0a college athletic program better<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ask any college coach this question:\u00a0 What one trait do you most covet in a high school prospect?\u00a0 Work ethic (WE) will be at or near the top of the list.\u00a0 Even with all the hubbub of late about character, WE wins out. For 30 years, NSR scouts have been working with college coaches to … 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":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1241"}],"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=1241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1241\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}