{"id":4407,"date":"2011-07-12T07:11:11","date_gmt":"2011-07-12T13:11:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.nsr-inc.com\/\/?p=4407"},"modified":"2011-07-12T07:11:11","modified_gmt":"2011-07-12T13:11:11","slug":"college-prospects-parents-be-thankful-and-humble-for-the-opportunity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/college-prospects-parents-be-thankful-and-humble-for-the-opportunity\/","title":{"rendered":"College Prospects & Parents: Be Thankful, and Humble, for the Opportunity"},"content":{"rendered":"

There’s Nothing More Appealing to Coaches Than a Hard-working, Humble Athlete<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Look at recruiting as the chance of a lifetime few others get to experience.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Think of it this way:\u00a0 You are a college coach\u00a0facing a crucial decision — who do I want to spend nearly every day with\u00a0for 10 months a year over the next four years?\u00a0 Do\u00a0you choose the over confident, ego-driven\u00a0prospect with obnoxious parents, or do you make an offer to the kid who goes about their business in a confident, but humble way and whose parents are supportive and cooperative?\u00a0 Here’s a clue — it’s not a tough choice.\u00a0 Yet, college coaches everywhere are today contemplating that very question.\u00a0\u00a0 They must decide if the overly confident kid will mature and if that prospect’s parents will be worth the trouble they will inevitably cause.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

In nearly all such scenarios, the humble, hard-working prospect wins out.\u00a0 It’s a lesson parents of prospects as well as prospects themselves should consider.\u00a0 Attitude is huge with coaches and many prospects win or lose scholarships based on that very issue.\u00a0 And, we have in fact seen prospects taken off coaches’ white boards because of the bad behavior of their parents.\u00a0 No coach wants to be saddled and\u00a0ridden hard by parents whose main objective in life is to prop up their\u00a0child for others to\u00a0admire while saying to hell with everything else, including coaches and teammates.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Getting the opportunity to be recruited to participate in college athletics is an enormous honor and something which very few high school kids will ever experience.\u00a0 Appreciate the opportunity by enjoying it with the proper perspective.\u00a0 Soak in the moments because they are fleeting.\u00a0 Enjoy the privilege of going through the process with college coaches who are spending their valuable time with you and literally putting their careers on the line if they choose to make you an offer.\u00a0 It is<\/em> a big deal with far reaching consequences.\u00a0 Understand this and treat it with the respect it deserves.\u00a0 In doing so, you will discover a reciprocal appreciation from coaches and perhaps even more offers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There’s Nothing More Appealing to Coaches Than a Hard-working, Humble Athlete Think of it this way:\u00a0 You are a college coach\u00a0facing a crucial decision — who do I want to spend nearly every day with\u00a0for 10 months a year over the next four years?\u00a0 Do\u00a0you choose the over confident, ego-driven\u00a0prospect with obnoxious parents, or do … 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\/4407"}],"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=4407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4407\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}