Recruiting-101

With the college football season in full swing, I have seemed to be fielding more questions that relate to unofficial visits as of late.  These unofficial visits are something that I strongly recommend and...

There are some high school programs who are blessed with multiple Division I athletes year after year.  They send a number of players every decade to that level as they have proven to be...

If you are a senior athlete hoping to get recruited, one of the ways that college coaches will express a great deal of interest in you is by calling.  As shown in the Levels of...

If you have been a long time reader of Recruiting-101, there is no doubt that you would have realized that we focus mostly on football, basketball, and then add in some baseball as well....

In the minds of most athletes and especially their parents, the way to improve your stock in the eyes of college coaches and get recruited by a number of big schools as a senior...

It seems like there are always stories and interesting aspects that I hear about the athletic recruiting process that seem to go against what I talk about on this site.  While athletes and families...

One of the toughest decisions that you will have to make as an athlete going through the athletic recruiting process is not just the school that you eventually pick.  If you are good enough...

A few years back I received an email from a parent/coach of a son who was a junior football player at the time.  This parent was realistic about the abilities of his son and...

There are a variety of different ways to look at a decommit during the athletic recruiting process.  One of the main reasons why I hear athletes decide to decommit is simply because they didn’t...

It doesn’t matter where the college is located, but if they are a school that can hand out scholarship offers, they are likely going to leak to the media who has accepted a scholarship...