{"id":7572,"date":"2014-09-05T10:16:59","date_gmt":"2014-09-05T15:16:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nsr-inc.com\/blog\/?p=7572"},"modified":"2014-09-05T10:16:59","modified_gmt":"2014-09-05T15:16:59","slug":"football-recruiting-what-is-the-truth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/football-recruiting-what-is-the-truth\/","title":{"rendered":"Football Recruiting : What is the Truth?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Most people, some time over the next week, will be watching some football! \u00a0Whether you are catching a college game on Thursday night, a high school game Friday \u00a0night or a multiplicity of college games on Saturday followed by a professional game on Sunday – most of us are affected by football on some level if not inundated by the sport. \u00a0What is it about “the boys of fall”<\/strong> that has our society captivated? \u00a0Truthfully, Football is nothing short of exciting!<\/p>\n

Personally, I have been around this game for over 30 years. \u00a0My husband played at our high school then went on to play his collegiate football at Ole Miss. \u00a0I also decided to attend Ole Miss on academic scholarship where I served on the Rebel Recruiting staff during our time there. \u00a0The game has\u00a0continued in our family’s life over the years as I have been the wife of a high school football coach and the mother of a high school football player and an NSR Scout. \u00a0The game continues on for me personally, as I am now the mom to a D1 football athlete, as our son has begun his collegiate football career.<\/p>\n

Why the personal history? \u00a0Well, to establish to the reader that when I discuss recruiting, it’s not something I read about or learned on the Internet or picked up from some “organization” that has no personal knowledge of the recruiting process. I lived it when,\u00a0my then, boyfriend\u00a0was in high school. \u00a0I was dating him when he was being recruited in the mid 80’s. \u00a0I lived it on the Rebel staff as I talked with, met with and recruited some of the top prospects of the day. \u00a0I have seen the recruiting process over the years as an NSR<\/a> Scout while assisting hundreds of high school athletes get scholarship offers from all the country. \u00a0I have lived the recruiting process as a mother to a highly recruited high school offensive lineman. \u00a0And finally, I continue to live in the recruiting world in my role with the world’s largest, oldest, and most respected scouting and recruiting organization, National Scouting Report<\/a>!<\/p>\n

The football recruiting process is, by far, the most complex, complicated and confusing of all college athletic recruiting processes. \u00a0Truthfully, the vast majority of recruiting information provided to parents, athletes and high school coaches by the general media is full of myths. \u00a0One might ask, “How so?” \u00a0Let me\u00a0start with this example. \u00a0How many football athletes does an NCAA Top 10 football program really need to offer in order to get the 25 National Letter of Intent signees for a recruiting class? \u00a0Some media sources and so called recruiting experts provide a list of “offers” and give “star” ratings to athletes. \u00a0Some of\u00a0these sources might show that one of these Top 10 football programs made as many as 100 verbal offers to potential student athletes. \u00a0100 offers? \u00a0Ask this question, do college football programs like Alabama, Auburn, Texas, USC, Oregon, Ohio State,\u00a0Texas A&M, Florida State or Notre Dame really make 100 verbal scholarship offers to high school athletes just to sign the yearly NLI signee maximum of 25 athletes? \u00a0NO,NO, NO! \u00a0The so called recruiting sites, experts and media outlets are providing information concerning recruiting based on what the high school athletes or the high school coaches tell them. \u00a0Why? \u00a0Why doesn’t the REAL recruiting truth come from the actual college coaches who are supposedly making the offers? \u00a0Simply put, the NCAA rules forbid college coaches and their staff members from discussing specific prospects prior to the National Signing Day. \u00a0So how do these recruiting sources get “bad” information. \u00a0The answer is complicated but here is one major point concerning this that I want to share. “Committable Offers or Non Committable Offers?” \u00a0It takes no less than 4 coaches on a D1 football staff to agree to make an official offer to a prospect. \u00a0Hours and hours of serious evaluation of that athlete will have taken place before a REAL COMMITTABLE OFFER is made to the\u00a0prospect. \u00a0A position coach or recruiting coordinator may tell a kid, “son, you are an offer type player for us. \u00a0We look forward to seeing you at camp and following you this fall.” The athlete hears “offer” and not all the qualification statements attached to what the coach said. \u00a0Next thing you know, that young athlete has\u00a0posted the “offer” all over his social media and called his local media outlet and reported that he was offered. \u00a0The truth? \u00a0Unfortunately, NO. \u00a0A prospect and their family must understand what the truth is about recruiting. \u00a0Does the average person know what it means when a college coach asks “does the kid pass the eye test?” \u00a0Does the average person know what ” does he play large?” really means. \u00a0Does the average person understand the “recruiting box?” \u00a0How about\u00a0the use of the term “war-daddy”? \u00a0How about the term “he is long”. \u00a0I often wonder just how much a typical parent and student athlete really knows, then I sit down with\u00a0a family who has a son that wants to play in college and I realize, quickly, they truthfully, are lost because someone has given them so much bad information about recruiting. \u00a0Some examples of bad information- A kid needs to attend combines and showcases.
\nWhy? Parents and athletes, college coaches DO NOT care what your results are at a combine! \u00a0They don’t recruit “stars”! They recruit football players that really fit into their “recruiting box”. \u00a0For example, college coaches tell us\u00a0all the time, “This is what I am looking for and if the kid don’t fit\u00a0then I will move on till I find the kid that fits our box.” What does that mean? \u00a0It means that a college football staff is looking for a very specific fit to offer their scholarship money to. \u00a0So if the coach tells me, “I need tackle bodies, ” I know he will not consider inside guys.\u00a0\u00a0Now, the reality is most people do not understand many of the terms, phrases and lingo I have used in this blog thus far. \u00a0Football athletes, parents and high school coaches, recently an SEC coach told us\u00a0this statement. \u00a0He said, “I wish every parent and athlete and high school coach would take the time to sit down with you and get the REAL DEAL education on how football recruiting really works. \u00a0We receive thousands of emails, hudl links and phone calls each week from well intended parents, kids and coaches! \u00a0We don’t have the time to open or even pretend to evaluate those. \u00a0Those\u00a0really just bog down our process. \u00a0Truthfully, we only evaluate the stuff that comes to us from a TRUSTED and PROVEN source! \u00a0Thanks for helping us find the kids that can play.”<\/p>\n

I can only write so much in a blog! \u00a0So, are you really being recruited? \u00a0Mom and dad, is your child really being recruited? \u00a0Don’t sit there and wonder if you are really being recruited. \u00a0Recruiting is not mystical. \u00a0You are being recruited or\u00a0YOU ARE NOT! \u00a0Feel free to contact me and I can have one of our scouts talk with you and give you an honest and free evaluation of your athlete. \u00a0High school athletes only have ONE opportunity to be recruited. \u00a0Don’t let it slip away and one day look back and say, “shoulda, woulda or coulda!” \u00a0Get your FREE evaluation.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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