Recruiting-101

One question that I surprisingly get asked often about the athletic recruiting process is related to unofficial visits.  Basically many athletes/families want to know if making these unofficial visits will help them throughout the...

I recently had a chance to speak with a parent about how interest colleges are in his son.  This football recruit had received some big time questionnaires and early information from some big time...

If you are a sought after athlete in any sport, it may be tough to juggle the attention that you are receiving. It is not an easy process to be able to handle that,...

If you have a lot of interest from a variety of college coaches, there is no doubt that one of the lines you may end up hearing is about how their coaching staff really...

There have been some interesting comments on a few of the recent columns related to what it means when a college coach visits the high school of a potential athletic recruit. One reader felt...

For whatever reason, one of the most popular searched phrases on this website earlier this year was if scholarship offers come in January. So with that in mind, we are going to take a...

One of the most frequently asked questions that I receive from parents is why is their child not being recruited by college coaches.  Their son or daughter may have been lighting up the stats...

Before going into exactly what a scholarship costs, it is important to discuss the different options that college coaches offer you as an athlete.  At the Division I-A level for football and Division I...

As we have done in the past before, Recruiting-101 has had a chance to ask parents questions about the recruiting process who just went through it. These parents were in the same exact stages...

As a college coach in the game of recruiting, it is important to have back up options the entire time. While in some ways this is unfair to recruits, it is the best way...