{"id":3909,"date":"2011-05-15T21:48:39","date_gmt":"2011-05-16T03:48:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.nsr-inc.com\/\/?p=3909"},"modified":"2011-05-15T21:48:39","modified_gmt":"2011-05-16T03:48:39","slug":"choices-or-leftovers-which-would-you-prefer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/choices-or-leftovers-which-would-you-prefer\/","title":{"rendered":"Athletic Scholarship Choices, Leftovers or Nothing? Pick One"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fair Warning Given — \u00a0Time’s Not On Your Side<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Don't wait for that coach's call until you miss out altogether on scholarship consideration.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Sophomores\u00a0and juniors, your time is running short.\u00a0 Sounds crazy, right?\u00a0 Not so.\u00a0\u00a0For sophomores, coaches will be identifying the prospects which will go on their recruiting\u00a0lists this summer and upcoming fall.\u00a0 The ones who get on those\u00a0lists will have a decided advantage over anyone\u00a0 who\u00a0hits their radar after that happens.\u00a0 For juniors, this summer coaches will be narrowing their\u00a0lists down to\u00a0those who will be invited in the fall to make official visits to\u00a0their campuses.\u00a0\u00a0Those invitations will go out in\u00a0the next 3 to five months.\u00a0\u00a0Now, is time running\u00a0short?\u00a0\u00a0Yes, it is.<\/p>\n

If you are not careful in the way you handle\u00a0the next few,\u00a0critical months, your chance\u00a0to get\u00a0the scholarship you really want could pass you by without you and your parents\u00a0even knowing it.\u00a0 Poof!\u00a0 Gone.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n

In Star Wars, The Phantom Menace<\/em>, Luke Skywalker, when told by Jedi master, Yoda,\u00a0of the dangers in facing the Dark Side,\u00a0famously said,\u00a0“I’m not afraid.”\u00a0 Do you remember Yoda’s response?\u00a0 It was simply, “You will be.”\u00a0 That’s a fitting parallel for prospects and parents who believe that everything will take care of itself, or their coach will handle it, or playing travel or club sports will open doors, or they can do it themselves.\u00a0\u00a0The months will soon zoom past, like a jacked-up Millennium Falcon, summer will have ended and fall will be here\u00a0as if it were tomorrow.\u00a0 And\u00a0when nothing has changed, then\u00a0what?<\/p>\n

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How will not being recruited to play college sports affect you? Imagine that.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

You will have wasted\u00a0time and some good, solid opportunities.\u00a0 So,\u00a0am I asking you to run to our doorstep and sign on?\u00a0 Well, that would be your very best\u00a0choice, yes.\u00a0\u00a0 But short of that,\u00a0look at\u00a0every\u00a0promotional option available to you.\u00a0 And do something.\u00a0 Yes, I will tell you that after nine years of working for NSR with prospects, parents and college coaches that we are undeniably the quickest, most effective way to get comprehensive exposure, but there are others.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

We are different because we are an on-the-ground scouting company which has been promoting qualified high school prospects to colleges for 31 years.\u00a0\u00a0Others you might find are not on\u00a0the ground.\u00a0\u00a0They are what we call “cubicle counselors.”\u00a0 They sit in a home office, or wherever, and make calls to every kid listed in a tournament roster book.\u00a0 They haven’t seen you play and they haven’t met you in person.\u00a0 It’s called telemarking.\u00a0 You know, like\u00a0all those\u00a0other companies that call your house every night around dinner time asking for donations?\u00a0 Notice any similarities?\u00a0 If you are diligent in your research, you will find that out, too.\u00a0\u00a0 We are the real deal.\u00a0 Real scouts.\u00a0 Real people.\u00a0 Real results.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Most NSR prospects, like Natalie Stevens, literally hear from dozens upon dozens of college coaches. Are you?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Only about one in ten high school\u00a0senior athletes\u00a0at your high school will go on to play\u00a0college sports, on average.\u00a0\u00a0Have you received any questionnaires from coaches?\u00a0 You should have.\u00a0 Do you know what to do next?\u00a0 You should.\u00a0 Am I trying to scare you?\u00a0 Absolutely.\u00a0 Am I being cynical?\u00a0 No.\u00a0 This is the way recruiting works today.\u00a0 If you do not get recruited, will that be worse than being warned about it?\u00a0\u00a0Without question.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Don’t\u00a0be\u00a0a statistic.\u00a0This your one and only shot at being recruited.\u00a0 It will not happen again.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Call\u00a0me today for a free consultation.\u00a0 I will answer any question you may have about recruiting and our\u00a0ability to help you or your child get noticed, evaluated and recruited.\u00a0 Call me, Alan Parham,\u00a0today at (800) 354-0072.\u00a0\u00a0Let’s talk.<\/p>\n

Or, you could call a cubicle counselor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Fair Warning Given — \u00a0Time’s Not On Your Side Sophomores\u00a0and juniors, your time is running short.\u00a0 Sounds crazy, right?\u00a0 Not so.\u00a0\u00a0For sophomores, coaches will be identifying the prospects which will go on their recruiting\u00a0lists this summer and upcoming fall.\u00a0 The ones who get on those\u00a0lists will have a decided advantage over anyone\u00a0 who\u00a0hits their radar … 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\/3909"}],"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=3909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3909\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}