{"id":7443,"date":"2014-03-03T10:41:24","date_gmt":"2014-03-03T16:41:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nsr-inc.com\/blog\/?p=7443"},"modified":"2014-03-03T10:41:24","modified_gmt":"2014-03-03T16:41:24","slug":"high-school-coaches-and-club-organizations-can-help-athletes-with-recruiting-but-they-are-limited-in-their-effectiveness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/high-school-coaches-and-club-organizations-can-help-athletes-with-recruiting-but-they-are-limited-in-their-effectiveness\/","title":{"rendered":"High school coaches and club organizations can help athletes with recruiting, but they are limited in their effectiveness"},"content":{"rendered":"
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High school athletes and their parents should take on the responsibility of controlling their own future by exploring promotional options which get proven results.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

As college scouts, we interview a lot of high school prospects.\u00a0 Whether a senior facing the final months of their prep careers or seventh graders about to enter the recruiting fray, one question consistently pops up:\u00a0 Will my coach help me?\u00a0 Good question.\u00a0 We seldom see these coaches refusing to help athletes and their families, but they are severely limited in what they can do to help promote athletes to college coaches.<\/p>\n

Most all\u00a0coaches in the\u00a0high school and club realm\u00a0will assist in any way they can.\u00a0 But\u00a0going down that road with one athlete often means, and they know this, that they have to do the same for\u00a0most, if not all, of their other athletes.\u00a0 And that presents problems – three major issues\u00a0coaches face about which families\u00a0frequently overlook or are woefully uninformed.<\/p>\n

First on the high school level, with the\u00a0rare exception of private schools,\u00a0coaches’ contracts do not\u00a0include a provision\u00a0requiring them to either make calls to college coaches\u00a0on\u00a0the behalf of\u00a0their athletes\u00a0or to widely promote their athletes to college programs through\u00a0direct mailings.\u00a0 In nearly every situation, a\u00a0high school coach is hired and assigned to teach, coach, watch over their team\u00a0and run the program within the standards set by their schools.\u00a0\u00a0These responsibilities take up an inordinate amount of time.\u00a0 In fact, in a study we conducted at NSR several\u00a0years ago, a high school coach typically spends 70+ hours per week on his\u00a0or her teaching and coaching duties.\u00a0 In short, there is no time to promote their athletes.\u00a0 Another key point: few high school coaches know more than a handful of\u00a0college coaches.\u00a0 Why?\u00a0 College coaches no longer scout high school events, nor do they depend on\u00a0prep-level coaches for info on prospects.\u00a0 So, communications between high school and college coaches has all but dissipated over the past ten years.\u00a0 Finally, getting the right\u00a0info to coaches, that is, the info\u00a0they need to quickly assess whether or not they want to explore an athlete’s qualifications is something\u00a0most high school coaches generally have\u00a0no idea\u00a0of how to\u00a0organize and compile.\u00a0\u00a0Simply stated, it’s not\u00a0what they do and they cannot reasonably be expected to be proficient at it.<\/p>\n

it gives families a\u00a0false sense of security which leads them to relax their\u00a0own efforts to connect with colleges.\u00a0 Consequently, as the days and months go on and\u00a0their athlete does not get the attention from college coaches,\u00a0it\u00a0puts\u00a0families in a race to catch up\u00a0with other\u00a0prospects.\u00a0 In most cases.\u00a0it’s a matter of\u00a0too little too late.<\/p>\n

That said, there are top-tier club organizations that do have a large percent of their athletes getting scholarship offers.\u00a0 However, in truth, that has more to do with the organization’s reputation for selecting top talent than through their promotional activities.\u00a0 College coaches have learned to gravitate to them without the benefit of pre-event promos, and the clubs in that category benefit from the exposure.<\/p>\n

That, of course, leaves all the other athletes from lesser\u00a0known organizations.\u00a0 What are these athletes to do?\u00a0 How can they\u00a0get noticed, evaluated and recruited?\u00a0 There is an\u00a0answer – one which\u00a0history shows year in and year out gets over 90 percent of\u00a0engaged\u00a0athletes recruited.\u00a0\u00a0Consistent.\u00a0 Proven.\u00a0 Professional.\u00a0 www.nsr-inc.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As college scouts, we interview a lot of high school prospects.\u00a0 Whether a senior facing the final months of their prep careers or seventh graders about to enter the recruiting fray, one question consistently pops up:\u00a0 Will my coach help me?\u00a0 Good question.\u00a0 We seldom see these coaches refusing to help athletes and their families, … 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\/7443"}],"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=7443"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7443\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7445,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7443\/revisions\/7445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}