{"id":4225,"date":"2011-06-14T10:51:22","date_gmt":"2011-06-14T16:51:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.nsr-inc.com\/\/?p=4225"},"modified":"2011-06-14T10:51:22","modified_gmt":"2011-06-14T16:51:22","slug":"why-do-college-coaches-in-public-scoff-at-scouting-services-and-in-private-praise-our-efforts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/why-do-college-coaches-in-public-scoff-at-scouting-services-and-in-private-praise-our-efforts\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Do College Coaches, in Public, Scoff at Scouting Services and in Private Praise Our Efforts?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Coaches Sometimes Forget Where They Came From<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Even DI coaches can't see and identify every DI-level prospect. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Ego?\u00a0 Eh, maybe.\u00a0\u00a0 Certainly, in some instances, we know of college coaches that would rather cut an ear off Van Gogh-style than admit that someone outside their office put them onto a legitimate prospect.\u00a0 It doesn’t make much sense, but that’s the way it is.\u00a0 An NSR\u00a0scout recently attended a major volleyball event in\u00a0the Southeast recently.\u00a0\u00a0College coaches from all three NCAA divisions were asked to\u00a0give\u00a0advice to\u00a0participants.\u00a0\u00a0Our scout stood in the background waiting for the inevitable question posed to the DI coach, “What do you think about scouting services?”\u00a0 Then, as expected, the bomb dropped.\u00a0 Answered the coach, “They’re a waste\u00a0of money.”\u00a0 Our scout cringed.\u00a0 A few days later he called the coach\u00a0and ever so delicately\u00a0reminded her that she had recruited an NSR\u00a0kid who was currently on her roster.\u00a0\u00a0Her reply?\u00a0 “Oh, sorry.\u00a0 I forgot about her.”\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Top-tier coaches have the power because they have access to more money in their recruiting budgets than most college coaches can imagine.\u00a0 They can send their assistants to every corner of the country and to every major talent showcase to spot great prospects.\u00a0 But, and here’s the rub, all the top players in the nation aren’t at these events.\u00a0 Some, in fact many,\u00a0are in the smaller regional events which don’t get the attention of the big time staffs.\u00a0\u00a0 Truth is that there are a lot of current mid-major, DII and NAIA student-athletes who would thrive in DI competition.\u00a0 But, because most of these athletes did not attend the premier events, or because they were not on a premier travel or club team, they were overlooked by the big guns.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In the light of day, here’s the\u00a0way\u00a0recruiting really works:\u00a0\u00a0when\u00a0NSR puts a DI-level\u00a0prospect in front of DI coaches for evaluation, the\u00a0coaches go after those\u00a0prospects as vigorously as they do any other top-level talent.\u00a0 But, the connection\u00a0provided by us, or any other scouting service for\u00a0that matter, is left standing in the dust.\u00a0 It’s what we deal with in the high school scouting business.\u00a0 We don’t like it, but\u00a0that’s the way it is.\u00a0 Similar scenarios are\u00a0repeated\u00a0at camps and combines every day across the country.\u00a0 It’s not fair, but it’s life, and it’s our line of work.<\/p>\n

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Coaches that appreciate scouting services value the time and money NSR saves them.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

On the other hand,\u00a0nearly every DII, DIII, NAIA and NJCAA\u00a0coach will tell you\u00a0just the opposite, if they are being honest.\u00a0\u00a0Yes, some of their egos stand in the way at times, too, because in private we hear some coaches praise\u00a0our promotional efforts as time\u00a0and money saving.\u00a0 But, again, some of these same coaches are\u00a0unable to step up and give\u00a0scouting\u00a0services the credit they\u00a0rightly deserve in public.\u00a0 Still, there are coaches\u00a0whose\u00a0recruiting lives depend on our\u00a0promotions to identify, evaluate and recruit prospects beyond their immediate-area reach.\u00a0 NSR is their lifeblood.\u00a0 Without us, they could not conceivably recruit all the athletes they need to assemble a competitive program.\u00a0 Why?\u00a0 Money.\u00a0 They simply don’t have enough money in their recruiting budgets to attend all the available showcases, tournaments, combines and other key events which typically present even medium to superb teams and athletes.\u00a0 The dough just isn’t there.<\/p>\n

NSR started 31 years ago.\u00a0 Over that time we have collected literally hundreds of letters from colleges coaches expressing their appreciation for what we do.\u00a0 And, you guessed it, we have letters from practically every Division I program in the country.\u00a0 We are proud of what we do and how we do it.\u00a0 We are thankful to be the high school scouting organization with the most on-the-ground scouts in America.\u00a0 And, while we must at times endure being scoffed at by college coaches whose vision of recruiting is myopic, we stand on\u00a0this\u00a0fact — over 90% of our senior prospects receive offers to participate in college athletics each year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Coaches Sometimes Forget Where They Came From Ego?\u00a0 Eh, maybe.\u00a0\u00a0 Certainly, in some instances, we know of college coaches that would rather cut an ear off Van Gogh-style than admit that someone outside their office put them onto a legitimate prospect.\u00a0 It doesn’t make much sense, but that’s the way it is.\u00a0 An NSR\u00a0scout recently … 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\/4225"}],"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=4225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4225\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}