{"id":7275,"date":"2013-04-10T15:05:37","date_gmt":"2013-04-10T15:05:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nsr-inc.com\/blog\/?p=7275"},"modified":"2013-04-10T15:05:37","modified_gmt":"2013-04-10T15:05:37","slug":"college-recruiting-is-a-relationship-building-process","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/college-recruiting-is-a-relationship-building-process\/","title":{"rendered":"College recruiting is a relationship-building process"},"content":{"rendered":"
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NSR prospect Jessica Graham is taught by her NSR scout to connect directly with college coaches if she wants to land a scholarship offer.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The key to being recruited to play college athletics is building strong, positive relationships with coaching staffs.\u00a0 Sounds simple, right?\u00a0 But in reality, it’s\u00a0tough to do.<\/p>\n

Why is it tough?\u00a0 Because you first have to be identified.\u00a0 And sending an email or a profile package to a college coach isn’t enough to get the job done.\u00a0 A high school prospect in today’s recruiting environment has to do more.\u00a0 Much more.<\/p>\n

Like winning a tough game, match or meet, recruits have to constantly be on the attack by calculating aggressive, offensive tactics and then executing them to perfection.\u00a0 The trouble with most high school recruits and their families is that they believe that college coaches will make all the moves to connect with them and begin the essential phase of building a relationship with them.\u00a0 It simply doesn’t work that way.<\/p>\n

High school prospects are equipped with the tools to reach coaches, yes, but they must understand that until they really connect with a college coaching staff on a personal level through emails, phone calls and campus visits, they will never get on a staff’s white board.\u00a0 And with thousands upon thousands of prospects available to college coaches, it’s the ones that take the process to the next, necessary level that get the attention.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The key to being recruited to play college athletics is building strong, positive relationships with coaching staffs.\u00a0 Sounds simple, right?\u00a0 But in reality, it’s\u00a0tough to do. Why is it tough?\u00a0 Because you first have to be identified.\u00a0 And sending an email or a profile package to a college coach isn’t enough to get the job … 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":[10,27,152,54,57,222,79],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7275"}],"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=7275"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7275\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7278,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7275\/revisions\/7278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}