{"id":6278,"date":"2012-05-14T15:14:09","date_gmt":"2012-05-14T15:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nsr-inc.com\/blog\/?p=6278"},"modified":"2012-05-14T15:16:39","modified_gmt":"2012-05-14T15:16:39","slug":"new-nsr-scout-talks-about-his-unsuccessful-diy-promo-methods-as-a-parent-and-how-that-led-him-to-nsr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/new-nsr-scout-talks-about-his-unsuccessful-diy-promo-methods-as-a-parent-and-how-that-led-him-to-nsr\/","title":{"rendered":"New NSR scout talks about his unsuccessful DIY promo methods as a parent and how that led him to NSR"},"content":{"rendered":"

Unsuccessful experience promoting son to colleges leads\u00a0parent to NSR<\/strong><\/p>\n

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NSR athletes like Arielle Pollock are identified and sent to college coaches after actual on-the-ground scouting.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Riding from the hotel to the NSR home office this morning, I was talking to one of our new scouts from California.\u00a0 He said that what really inspired him to become an NSR licensee and scout was that in 2010, when his son was a senior in high school, he and his wife tried to promote him on their own.\u00a0 His next statement was all-telling.<\/p>\n

“We didn’t hear a peep from a single college coach that we contacted.\u00a0\u00a0 We sent loads of E-mails and letters and go nothing, nada.\u00a0 When I learned about the effectiveness with which NSR promotes their athletes, it was a no-brainer to me that this is what I needed to be doing for the athletes in my area of Northern California.”<\/p>\n

Parents thinking that college coaches will jump on every package of info and E-mail are in for a long wait.\u00a0 College coaches trust viable sources and parents aren’t in that group.<\/p>\n

Go into practically any college coach’s office and you will find somewhere, usually tucked off in a corner, a stack of packages and tapes they’ve gotten from parents.\u00a0 It’s a dust collecting area which coach’s rarely get around to reading or viewing.\u00a0 Why?\u00a0 Well, if you were a college coach and you had a choice of going through the info provided to you by the world’s most trusted scouting service that has been sending their\u00a0program\u00a0great high school student-athletes for 32\u00a0 years or a parent, which would you take seriously?\u00a0 Bingo.<\/p>\n

High school scouting and college recruiting is no longer a mom ‘n pop affair where you can list your info on a free recruiting site or send a few letters or E-mails to coaches and realistically expect to get a response, much less a recruiting letter or phone call.\u00a0 Not going to happen.\u00a0 So, get real.<\/p>\n

College coaches are like anyone else in business, they want to save time to make their recruiting efforts as efficient as possible.\u00a0\u00a0When they decide which prospects to spend\u00a0their\u00a0valuable time evaluating, they aren’t silly enough to think that the top prospects will come from Mom and Dad.\u00a0\u00a0That simply makes no sense.\u00a0 They access\u00a0info and the opinions of\u00a0the\u00a0pros that\u00a0scout for a living, that are on the ground actually doing their prelim work of gathering athletic, academic and\u00a0personal\u00a0data,\u00a0pushing unqualified prospects to the side and homing in on those prospects that are legitimate college athletes.<\/p>\n

When NSR scouts pinpoint, scout and then enroll a prospect, it is because\u00a0as scouts they\u00a0have done\u00a0the\u00a0initial work\u00a0that college coaches don’t have time or funds, in many instances, to do for themselves.\u00a0 And, over the years these coaches have developed a level of professional respect for our scouts and our scouting and verification\u00a0methods which coaches are confident\u00a0result in a list of genuine college prospects.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Unsuccessful experience promoting son to colleges leads\u00a0parent to NSR Riding from the hotel to the NSR home office this morning, I was talking to one of our new scouts from California.\u00a0 He said that what really inspired him to become an NSR licensee and scout was that in 2010, when his son was a senior … 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":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6278"}],"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=6278"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6278\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6281,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6278\/revisions\/6281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}