mce86
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Post by mce86 on Jul 15, 2006 15:04:00 GMT -6
Help...
What do you guys do to help your players get recruited? What can be done starting today to help this year's seniors who are not yet being recruited...Thanks!
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Post by phantom on Jul 15, 2006 15:23:17 GMT -6
Well, there's this recruiting service.......
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Post by coachnicholson on Jul 15, 2006 15:24:10 GMT -6
Telling them to attend summer camps is obviously out of the question at this point. Other things you can do to help them include filling out as many recruit questionaires as possible. These can easily be found on most every college team website. You can also send out highlight tapes/dvd's to college coaches.
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Post by phantom on Jul 15, 2006 17:12:33 GMT -6
Right now there isn't much that you can do except, as Coach Nicholson said, send back questionaires. Maybe you can get a start on putting together personal highlight films for the bubble guys. I think that a great service that you can perform is to let the players know where they stand. As a group you can let them know that, unfortunately, college coaches recruit with a stopwatch and a tape measure and that some guys that are great HS players will not get offers.
Have a personal conference with each rising senior and honestly evaluate his prospects. Tell him, compassionately but honestly, why he's not being recruited yet. If he's been sitting behind a great player but has the talent to be a prospect, make him aware that he has to perform this year. If he's a talented underachiever make sure that he understands that he also needs to put it all together. If it's academics, come up with a plan to fix it including the possible need for a prep school or JUCO.
If a guy is a good player who has physical shortcomings give him his options. Let that 6'0" OG understand that, although Ohio State won't be coming for him, Towson State and Virginia State also give diplomas.
Later there are more proactive steps that you can take. Right now realism and honesty are the best thing that you have to offer.
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Post by tothehouse on Jul 15, 2006 18:28:20 GMT -6
At our place our HC has a meeting with parents and players (from other sports as well) to discuss our "recruiting resume". What the resume is; is awesome.
The student/athlete has a little work to do, but the rewards are great. The resume is just that. It has one of the student athletes biggest attributes at the top of the resume, "3.9 GPA - 1st Team All State QB". Then, on the left side of the resume are all of the numbers that colleges care about both academic and athletic. If the football player is a multi-sport athlete the list of accomplishments from the other sports go here as well. On the right hand side of the page are a picture of the student. Usually a senior portrait. Below the picture are a statement of strengths by both the HC and the player himself(herself). On the back of this sheet are the student athletes transcripts.
A local print shop type-sets these documents and sends them back via fax to check for mistakes etc. before being sent out. 1,000 copies are made and sent out to every college in the country that plays football. The cost to the student is something like $180. This is just for the typesetting and copies. Our HC doesn't profit. Our football class spends one period stuffing all of the resumes into envelopes (fire line style). We have address stickers for all of the schools and stamp them on. Throw them into bags and our HC bulk mails them off that day!!!
The reason this is good is because small schools in the midwest can't recruit our California boys that often because of the finances. We bring the players to them!!!! Anybody who responds to the resumes get film from the player.
If I can get a copy of what the resume looks like I'll scan it and show it to you.
The big thing is having the student athlete respond to the mail he/she gets. Put in time to make phones call and fill out the forms. A little time now could get your college education paid for.
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Post by toprowguy on Jul 15, 2006 20:16:39 GMT -6
D3 schools usually will rely on a HS coaches evaluation of a players so if your kids are interested in playing D3 a phone call to a D3 coach will go a long way in getting you kids recruited by that school.
Must local D3 school will visits the school in December but others farther away will send questionarries for the kids to complete.
Have the kids find school that they are interested in and have them contact the coach by e-mail and then you can follow that up with a call to that coach.
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