{"id":5465,"date":"2011-12-23T08:40:19","date_gmt":"2011-12-23T14:40:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.nsr-inc.com\/\/?p=5465"},"modified":"2011-12-23T08:40:19","modified_gmt":"2011-12-23T14:40:19","slug":"nsr-scouts-reaching-out-to-qualified-prep-student-athletes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/nsr-scouts-reaching-out-to-qualified-prep-student-athletes\/","title":{"rendered":"NSR Scouts Reaching Out to Qualified Prep Student-Athletes"},"content":{"rendered":"

Prospect Families Are Left with Few Options in Wake of Open-enrollment Companies’ Methods and Ineffectiveness<\/strong><\/p>\n

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National Scouting Report is the world’s most effective on-the-ground scouting organization and our scouts worldwide are constantly searching for college-qualified high school student-athletes in all sports.\u00a0 Our goal of identifying and enrolling qualified prospects in an all-out effort to help them reach their goal of being recruited is a never ending quest.\u00a0 But we are confronted with competitors\u00a0whose methods are tainting\u00a0our industry.\u00a0<\/p>\n

History tells us that NSR’s selection process is what college coaches want to see in a scouting company.\u00a0 Our method of personally vetting prospects on the basis of athletic talent, academic performance, personal character and family support allows college coaches to save immeasurable time on the front end of the recruiting process.\u00a0 And, with digitized, evaluation videos available online for coaches to conduct their initial assessments, NSR puts more qualified prospects in\u00a0front of college coaches than any other scouting organization.\u00a0<\/p>\n

It’s true that there are scouting organizations which have more prospects in their database for coaches, but many of these companies are open enrollment groups.\u00a0 That is to say that they take virtually any prospect whose parents are willing to fork over money to see their children’s faces posted on a Web site.\u00a0 But, for these companies all the bells and whistles cannot fool coaches who are reluctant to sift through hundreds of non-qualified prospects to find a few which are legitimate.\u00a0 That is one of the biggest differences between these companies and NSR.\u00a0<\/p>\n

We only accept and promote prospects which have proven through their high school careers to be of true value to college coaches and who will not only\u00a0attract their attention, but will be evaluated and recruited.\u00a0 NSR does this because every day our reputation is on the line with college coaches.\u00a0 They depend on us to remain steadfast to their high standards of prospect identification.\u00a0 And because we are dedicated to only provide genuine college prospects to coaches, our prospects consistently get recruited.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Recently our scouts are experiencing a windfall of interest and subsequent enrollments from prospects and parents who, after having been lured onto our competitors’ sites, want results, not empty promises.\u00a0 Over the past few years\u00a0a disturbing trend has taken hold and it is doing more damage than good to the\u00a0status of high school\u00a0scouting and college recruiting.\u00a0 Telemarketing has made its way into scouting organizations as their main means of enrolling prospects.\u00a0 By\u00a0signing mass numbers of prospects without properly having scouted and evaluated their talent, these companies\u00a0have\u00a0put\u00a0the status of real\u00a0high school scouting organizations like NSR\u00a0at risk.\u00a0 Moreover, in the wake of this sign-at-all-cost approach, college coaches are complaining, prospects and parents are left disappointed and those of us in the scouting field still doing real scouting are left holding the bag and suffer the consequences – we too often get lumped in with them.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n

America being a free enterprise society, there really is nothing\u00a0anyone can do to counter these companies’\u00a0overly aggressive\u00a0methods.\u00a0 They are free to run amuck because that is their business model and it makes the principals a ton of, you guessed it, money.\u00a0 But, we ask, what about the kids whose dreams are left in tatters?\u00a0 Is there no consideration for their futures?\u00a0<\/p>\n

At NSR, our\u00a0only alternative\u00a0is to continue to do our level best by our client-prospects and families.\u00a0 We feel a keen sense of responsibility to them in particular, but also to the families we approach as potential\u00a0NSR prospects, many of whom have already been targeted, called and entangled in the telemarketing’s sticky web.\u00a0 How bad can it really be?\u00a0 We recently learned about a\u00a0scouting telemarketer who conducted an over-the-phone presentation.\u00a0 When the parents declined to\u00a0sign up, the telemarketer allegedly said to the prospect, “See?\u00a0\u00a0Your parents don’t really care about your future.”\u00a0\u00a0The parents hung up the phone on the telemarketer.\u00a0 This story was told to an NSR scout\u00a0during a\u00a0face-to-face,\u00a0in-home\u00a0interview with the same family.\u00a0 The family, recognizing the clear difference\u00a0between\u00a0NSR and the telemarketers, enrolled with NSR.\u00a0\u00a0Within days that prospect was receiving interest from college coaches.\u00a0 Get it?\u00a0 As they say, that’s what we’re talking about.\u00a0<\/p>\n

It comes down to this:\u00a0\u00a0NSR proudly will not stoop to an open enrollment philosophy for the sake of padding our bank accounts.\u00a0 That is our choice.\u00a0\u00a0We will continue to do the right thing.\u00a0 Call us naive.\u00a0 But at NSR our company conscious still means something to us and our reputation with college coaches and in the athletic community means even more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Prospect Families Are Left with Few Options in Wake of Open-enrollment Companies’ Methods and Ineffectiveness National Scouting Report is the world’s most effective on-the-ground scouting organization and our scouts worldwide are constantly searching for college-qualified high school student-athletes in all sports.\u00a0 Our goal of identifying and enrolling qualified prospects in an all-out effort to help … 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\/5465"}],"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=5465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5465\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}