{"id":7233,"date":"2013-03-07T16:37:07","date_gmt":"2013-03-07T16:37:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nsr-inc.com\/blog\/?p=7233"},"modified":"2013-03-07T16:37:07","modified_gmt":"2013-03-07T16:37:07","slug":"seniors-fight-for-your-athletic-future-as-the-ncaa-regular-signing-period-looms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/seniors-fight-for-your-athletic-future-as-the-ncaa-regular-signing-period-looms\/","title":{"rendered":"Seniors: Fight for your athletic future as the NCAA regular signing period looms"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Seniors, if your athletic future is in doubt, fight for it by calling coaches and finding out where you stand.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Springtime is a time of year for renewal and that goes for high school seniors, too.\u00a0 There is so much emphasis placed on early signing periods that many seniors and their parents panic over not having signed in November.\u00a0 In fact, most high school athletes sign during the April 17 to August 1 regular signing period.<\/p><\/div>\n

College coaches do try to get their top recruits to sign a National Letter of Intent in November, but they\u00a0usually only secure the formal and legal commitment of between 20 and 40 percent of their targeted athletes.\u00a0 The hype surrounding the early signing period is mostly media driven, but that doesn’t lessen\u00a0the\u00a0anxiety\u00a0which prospects and parents\u00a0typically experience as the days count down to April 17.<\/p>\n

Seniors at\u00a0this point, with a\u00a0five weeks to go before the ESP begins, should be\u00a0doing their very best to demonstrate their desire to sign with their top choices.\u00a0 Moreover, it would be wise to leave their “dream” schools out of that mix.\u00a0 If a dream college coach is not responding, the deal has been done with other athletes and it’s time\u00a0for hopeful athletes to move on to other, more promising options.\u00a0 Making phone calls to the coaches is the best alternative.\u00a0 Point blank, ask the coaches if there\u00a0is still an opportunity\u00a0to sign an NLI.\u00a0 And if the coach has narrowed his or her list to you\u00a0and another athlete, make a plea by stating your case and desire to play for the coach and to get an education at that school.\u00a0 Talk about how good\u00a0the fit is in terms of location, program quality, facilities and education.\u00a0\u00a0Go after\u00a0it will enthusiasm.\u00a0 And,\u00a0it’s okay to\u00a0take this tactic with\u00a0several schools in hopes of getting\u00a0multiple offers.<\/p>\n

From now until April 17, seniors cannot sit back and wait.\u00a0 It’s a competition and the stakes are high.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Springtime is a time of year for renewal and that goes for high school seniors, too.\u00a0 There is so much emphasis placed on early signing periods that many seniors and their parents panic over not having signed in November.\u00a0 In fact, most high school athletes sign during the April 17 to August 1 regular signing … 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\/7233"}],"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=7233"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7233\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7236,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7233\/revisions\/7236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}