{"id":13381,"date":"2017-01-10T04:30:59","date_gmt":"2017-01-10T10:30:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/?p=13381"},"modified":"2021-04-08T10:03:33","modified_gmt":"2021-04-08T15:03:33","slug":"if-coaches-are-looking-4-or-5-years-ahead-so-should-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/if-coaches-are-looking-4-or-5-years-ahead-so-should-you\/","title":{"rendered":"If Coaches are Looking 4 or 5 Years Ahead, So Should You"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Coaches are looking ahead when it comes to recruiting. Many are looking four or five years ahead and evaluating athletes, from afar, before they can contact them.<\/p>\n<p>There is a nearly unrecoverable mistake most families make in recruiting. They wait too late to start the process. They think they are already in, but they aren&#8217;t. And it&#8217;s painful to watch.<\/p>\n<p>There are things families miss time and again: College coaches are looking two, three, four years ahead. In men&#8217;s D-I hoops, they are looking and planning a full five years in advance. Logic, then, would dictate that parents put their kids in the position to evaluated by as many schools as possible.<\/p>\n<p>That would mean, of course, that the ninth grade is the right time to push the boat away from the dock. But it doesn&#8217;t happen that way.<\/p>\n<h2>When Should Athletes Start the Recruiting Process?<\/h2>\n<p>Right now, our NSR scouts are in contact almost daily with parents of senior athletes. The parents are in a panic. Rightfully so. Their kids are left hanging in the process. Our\u00a0culture has developed into a we-have-to-have-it-now way of thinking. In recruiting, procrastination is the norm.<\/p>\n<p>Parents wait far too long to get their kids into the process. When coaches begin looking for recruits in their class, they aren&#8217;t there. How does that make any sense? The answer? As a result, families think they are in the recruiting process when they aren&#8217;t. Now we&#8217;re getting somewhere. See, they believe two myths about college recruiting and the recruiting process.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>Your kid is good enough. Coaches will find him (or her).<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Playing club (or travel) sports will get you recruited.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>The problem with these is that an essential step has been skipped over &#8211; coaches can&#8217;t recruit you if they don&#8217;t know about you. Your kid&#8217;s future is on the line. If you wait to late your kid&#8217;s dreams may not happen.<\/p>\n<p>However, you could do something about it. Get moving. A qualified scout can help a family and provide the much-needed guidance. NSR scouts can talk with you and your athlete.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Coaches are looking ahead when it comes to recruiting. Many are looking four or five years ahead and evaluating athletes, from afar, before they can contact them. There is a nearly unrecoverable mistake most families make in recruiting. They wait too late to start the process. They think they are already in, but they aren&#8217;t. &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/if-coaches-are-looking-4-or-5-years-ahead-so-should-you\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":13447,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1299,864,859],"tags":[10,11,31,54,56,57,76,282,222,79,329,94,111],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13381"}],"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=13381"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13381\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15504,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13381\/revisions\/15504"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}