Athletic Scholarships Available if you do Homework
This fall, visions of playing college sports will be planted in pint-sized athletes and their parents -- who have their own dreams about scholarships. Of course, in the college recruiting game, dreams run smack into reality. Consider this: Fewer than 6 percent of high school football players will go on to play college football at an NCAA institution, according to NCAA estimates. And overall, most college athletes compete outside of the Division I level, including more than 160,000 at the Division III level, where athletic scholarships aren't offered. [
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Making an Impact
Randy Taylor made an impact in college recruiting for 30 years, as a recruiter and recruiting coordinator at UCLA, Illinois, Minnesota and Nevada-Las Vegas. As the chief organizer of UCLA's recruiting in 1999, he helped to sign the No. 1 class in the nation. Now Taylor is the recruiting coordinator for Chicago-based National Collegiate Scouting Association. [
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What Football Recruiters Look For
When it comes to evaluating football prospects, Randy Taylor has good credentials. Over the last 30 years, he has experienced recruiting as a high school player and a college coach and has been on the cutting edge of technological and administrative changes that have impacted on the process. [
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Coaches Gearing up for May Evaluations
The May evaluation period for college football coaches is just around the corner. But the timetable for the recruiting process has been squeezed, and coaches, faced with new NCAA restrictions, are looking for more efficient ways to see as many prospects as they can in a shorter period of time [
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NCSA for One Stop Shopping
But times have changed. NCAA rules have limited the time they can be on the road and I have to be on the road more than ever before, making trips from coast to coast to personally interview the top 1,500 seniors each year. [
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Recruiting: Ritter goes the extra mile to get to Western Illinois
William Ritter didn't sit at the top of any preseason recruiting lists. He didn't set any records. Ritter was an important cog in Permian's defense, a defensive end who collected 43 tackles and four sacks. But he wanted to play college football. So his father took matters into his own hands.
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NCSA on the WGN News
NCSA Recruiting Analyst Randy Taylor appeared on the WGN evening news to discuss National Signing Day. [
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