{"id":2876,"date":"2011-01-25T08:55:07","date_gmt":"2011-01-25T14:55:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.nsr-inc.com\/\/?p=2876"},"modified":"2011-01-25T08:55:07","modified_gmt":"2011-01-25T14:55:07","slug":"football-is-not-the-only-ncaa-sport-signing-next-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/football-is-not-the-only-ncaa-sport-signing-next-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Football Is Not the Only NCAA Sport Signing Next Week"},"content":{"rendered":"

Four Other Programs Will Also Ink Classes\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

<\/a><\/a>\"\"<\/a>February 3rd might be a banner day for NCAA DI & DII football programs,\u00a0but meanwhile just down the hall coaches in four other sports will be anxiously waiting to see which high school seniors have chosen to sign with their programs.\u00a0\u00a0Field hockey, track and field, cross country and men’s water polo all get to sign their top recruits to national letters of intent next week, too.\u00a0\u00a0 Perhaps football\u00a0getting all the attention is a good thing for these coaches, but make no mistake about it, they are\u00a0under\u00a0pressure to\u00a0ink solid student-athletes as well.\u00a0 Every college athletic program adds value\u00a0to a school, but they also can be a drain, especially if\u00a0 the coaches and players are not representing the institution\u00a0in a manner which\u00a0positively reflects on the college or university. Pressure is pressure and these coaches get their fair share of it \"\"<\/a>when they are putting up more L’s than W’s and when one of their athletes strays from their obligations to the team, athletic department and school.\u00a0 While\u00a0little is said about the recruiting the coaches in so-called minor sports do, all year they attend top club tournaments around the region and country identifying quality prospects, getting to <\/a>know them and their parents, hosting them during on campus visits, and recruiting them in a never ending effort to compile a class of top-notch student-athletes.\u00a0 No matter the sport, college\u00a0coaches are looking\u00a0to upgrade their teams with better athletes while\u00a0simultaneously bringing aboard competent students and good\u00a0citizens.\u00a0 Yes, the\u00a0lights and music may be pointed in the direction of the football program next week, but you can be sure that there will be plenty of other coaches in the same building intently awaiting the fax machine to\u00a0pop out good news from their\u00a0top prospects, too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Four Other Programs Will Also Ink Classes\u00a0\u00a0 February 3rd might be a banner day for NCAA DI & DII football programs,\u00a0but meanwhile just down the hall coaches in four other sports will be anxiously waiting to see which high school seniors have chosen to sign with their programs.\u00a0\u00a0Field hockey, track and field, cross country and … 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":[10,33,46,56,72,79,82,111,124],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2876"}],"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=2876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2876\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}