Who to Contact? Determining Where to Send Your Recruiting Information
October 16th, 2009 - byA common mistake in the recruiting process is to send your information to the Head Coach of a large program such as a football team. Head coaches get bombarded with emails, letters, phone calls, and DVD’s on a daily basis. More than likely your information will be lost in the shuffle due to the sheer amount of information being received by those coaches.
Instead, it is best to instead look for a couple important items when determining what coach to send your information to. First, if there is a Recruiting Coordinator at the school, he or she is the main point of contact for all recruits at the school. Some schools also have sport specific recruiting coordinators, which are an even better option than a general recruiting coordinator. The reason you would send your information to either of these positions is because the people in these positions sole job is to handle recruiting at that school. they are equipped to get the information where it needs to be.
However, some schools do not have a recruiting coordinator. If there is no recruiting coordinator go onto the schools website and see if you can determine through the coaches biographies who recruits your area. If you do have an area coach that is the next best place to send the information.
The next steps then in the process would be to send your information to your particular position coach. A pitcher sending his information to the pitching coach in baseball or a safety sending their information to the defensive backs coach are two examples of this situation. Assistant are more likely to respond to your requests as they don’t get nearly as much correspondence from recruits.
If you have worked your way through all the steps and end up back at the head coach, then absolutely you would want to send your information to them. This typically means that they have a small staff and the head coach is very involved in the recruiting process, which is what we are looking for as a recruit anyways!
