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Post by bobgoodman on Jul 11, 2010 7:57:30 GMT -6
July 3 I saw a sign in Sussex Co. NJ, in or near Newton, at the corner of Park Dr. (where it becomes Plotts Rd.) and Rte. 519 (Mill St./Newton-Halsey Rd.), where the farm stand is, near the upper left corner of this map (by Sussex Co. Community Col. -- tried to center it, doesn't work right)... maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=41.070099,-74.753895&spn=0.037919,0.090551&z=14&output=embed ...which was recruiting for youth football. Unfortunately I couldn't write the name or the Web address it gave (it was 4 letters and a ".com" IIRC) -- or even memorize it. (Dementia?) Is this anyone you know? (I was in touch briefly via Delphi's single wing etc. forum a few yrs. ago with someone involved in that general area.) And whether it is or not, do any of you have results from recruiting by signs -- whether on roads or in store windows? |
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Post by davecisar on Jul 11, 2010 8:03:14 GMT -6
Some teams here have used large billboards, one put a sign on several bus benches
Way back when when we needed players we hung a very well made banner on the outside fence of our practice field facing the road that said:
Screaming Eagle Football
Age 6-14 We have openings
Talk to Any Coach Now
Some kids need to know you need players and they dont always have to be there on day 1.
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Post by coachdoug on Jul 12, 2010 14:00:49 GMT -6
We've always used signs around town to publicize our signup dates. I'm not sure I would characterize it as "recruiting" - the parents know they can get registration info from our website, but the signs are a good way to remind them that signups are coming up and to generate interest with new players. In California we used 3x6 vinyl signs that we hung on the fences around various parks and schools in town (about 8-10 total, I think). The signs included our program name, logo, something like "Football & Cheer Signups Coming Up", the dates and location of signups, our phone # and our website address. We put the dates on a strip across the bottom of the banner so we could re-use the banners every year and just change out the strip with the dates. Here in Tucson, our program uses metal signs (much smaller - about 1.5 feet square) on stakes pounded into the ground.
The signs typically go up in late March/early April and stay up as long as we have openings on our teams. They seem to be very effective at least as a reminder that sign-ups are coming.
Bob, just out of curiousity - don't you live in the Bronx? What is your interest in a program in NJ? You're not considering commuting across the Hudson just to coach, are you?
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Post by bobgoodman on Jul 12, 2010 20:31:04 GMT -6
Bob, just out of curiousity - don't you live in the Bronx? What is your interest in a program in NJ? You're not considering commuting across the Hudson just to coach, are you? Heh. No, I was hoping first for the long shot that that would've been the organiz'n whose coach I corresponded with a few yrs. ago. But once I brought it up, I thought, why not discuss the topic generally? I was on my way to something else entirely, as a passenger with a friend (junked my car 1.5 yrs. ago), when I saw the sign. My own efforts at recruiting for the Gun Hill Rebels weren't a spectacular success. Which leads me to thinking about something I discussed with a friend in the 1990s that would've involved recruiting children, but not for sports. Children are a very touchy demographic to approach; society is justifiably protective of them, for which we have these neat things called "parents". However, parents are susceptible sometimes to turning over their kids to institutions that can employ the most outrageous quackery. |
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