You Don’t Want More Scholarship Offers?
May 19th, 2009 - byWhen I talk to potential recruits and families all the time and their decision to join NCSA usually comes down to asking themselves a simple question, “Do I currently have enough recruiting options?” Many families decide they have more than enough opportunities and decide to “go it alone.” Unfortunately, this notion is almost always wrong.
Unless you are a top 1% recruit in the country with multiple scholarship OFFERS, you probably don’t have enough options.
- Having a few one day camp invitations doesn’t mean you have real options.
- Taking a few unofficial visits doesn’t mean you have real options.
- Being on a great AAU team doesn’t mean you have real options.
- Having a great high school coach doesn’t mean you have real options.
See what I’m getting at? Until you’ve crossed the finish line as a recruit and have multiple offers in hand, you just can’t afford to sit back and hope that the cards you’ve been dealt will play out well. There are just too many other recruits competing for that same scholarship slot for a recruit to ever be even the slightest bit complacent.
Additionally, even if you have 5-6 realistic options and that turns into 1-2 offers, are you really happy being able to choose between only two schools. What if one school offers your major, but you like the coaching staff at the other?
I could go on asking a hundred more questions that could come up in the recruiting process but the bottom line is this: The more schools in play, the better chance at finding the perfect fit. That is exactly what we do at NCSA.
