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Attention all underclassmen: Summer camps are right around the corner! This is the best opportunity to perform in front of college coaches and generate interest at the next level. Due to several NCAA rules that prohibit college coaches from evaluating student-athletes, summer camps have been a hotbed for college recruiting nationwide. Did you know that other schools may attend one summer camp? That’s right! This could be a prime opportunity for you to compete in front of a large crowd of coaches which can increase your odds of getting recruited! I have added some quick tips that can help you perform at your best this camp season:

1. Be well rested!
Don’t drive long hours and then stumble into camp. Try to get there the night before. Walk around the facility if possible and get acquainted with your surroundings. Get a good nights rest, proper meals, and most important be hydrated!

2. Perform at your best!
Understand you are being evaluated from to the time you set on foot on campus until the time you leave. From the time you start stretching until you break the final huddle, college coaches are watching your every move. My advice is giving 100% on every drill! Sprint from station to station and show these coaches you are serious about playing at the next level.

3. Reps, Reps,Reps!                                                                                                      

Getting to camp is a critical event in your recruiting efforts!

One of the biggest problems I see at camp is student-athletes not getting enough reps. Word to the wise: Take every rep as an opportunity to perform! The more reps the more opportunities you have to get evaluated. Have fun out there and understand this is your time to shine!

4. Build Relationships
Don’t be afraid to introduce yourself to coaches after camp. Student-athletes who get out of their comfort zone tend to make a great first impression with a college coach. Shake hands and thank him for the opportunity. Have a copy of game and highlight film if available and be sure to follow up with the coach after the event. It can make a world of difference by just doing to the small things.

5. Be well rested (not a typo)!
That’s right student-athletes, I can’t stress enough how important it is to get proper rest in between camps. I see it time and time again when a student-athlete goes from one to camp to another without proper rest. You never know what school may be the most interested. Poor performance from lack of rest can seriously hinder your opportunities of getting recruited. Proper rest, big meals, and fluids are highly recommended!

Summer camps are where college coaches may find student-athletes who have the potential of being the right fit. Take these quick tips with you to camp and generate some serious buzz about yourself!

One of our top student-athletes is Brian Monette from Willowbrook High School just outside of Chicago, Illinois. He plays for Top Tier in the summer and last year he hit .462 in 105 at bats for them as well as went 8-2 on the mound. Brian was also named the number 22 prospect in the Illinois class of 2010 by Prep Baseball Report.

In school, Brian is maintaining a 3.55 GPA, is taking AP and honors courses, and is ranked in the top 25% of his class. Here are a few academic rewards he has received: High Honors 2006-2009, National Honors Society Member and Recommended for Youth Leaders of America. We are proud to have Brian Monette as an impact student-athlete in the class of 2010.

Every prospect needs to have a high quality video to successfully navigate the recruiting process.  However, athletes across every sport and level have questions about how to produce a high quality film.  One reason why there are so many questions, is the fact that even college coaches can’t agree on what is “the best” type of video.

We recently asked a group of over 500 volleyball, football, soccer, and basketball coaches if they preferred a highlight or full game video and the results were predictably mixed.    No sport had more than 2/3 of their coaches agreeing on one type of film over another.  So obviously, the answer is to create both.  Comments from coaches in all four sports confirm the need for two types of film.

Honestly, I really prefer both. The 2-5 minute highlight provides a glimpse, but full game typically provides thorough credibility.

Really both would be helpful. A highlight reel is good to see a lot of one player quickly. But I also find it very useful to see what the player is doing when they aren’t on the ball, etc.

Ultimately, I do want full game film, as I can begin to evaluate the player in the full context of the game.

However, for the purposes of culling through and first impression of a prospect, the 2-5 minute spot shadowed highlights give a ¨quick and dirty¨ look at a player, so I can make a quick determination if they are worth an email.

The full game film is more to determine if they are worth a visit, burning my very limited recruiting budget.

If you could actually do highlights and then the full game that would be best. We could watch the highlights and if they interest us we would then go and watch the full game with the dead time cut out.

If you are struggling to produce a high quality film for coaches I urge you to contact NCSA and learn how we can create and deliver your film directly to college coaches.

Last week Coach Randy Taylor took us behind the scenes of how a college coaching staff begins the process of putting together their recruiting boards.  If you were unable to read that article, I encourage you to check it out here.  This week Coach Taylor will take you inside a room that very few people ever get to be a part of, “the war room” and explain how college coaches make the decisions about prospects that will affect the future of their program…

We left off last week at the point in the process when the Recruiting Coordinator officially places a recruit’s name on “the list” in the war room.  As I mentioned, the war room is a highly secure office that contains the official list of recruits that all the coaches have spent months and years gathering and evaluating.  It is in this room that some of the most important decisions coaches ever have to make will be determined.

The centerpiece of every war room is “the list” which is essentially the official recruiting board that will be analyzed and vetted exhaustively by the entire coaching staff until the recruiting class is finalized.

“The list” is typically organized by position first.  Below each position is usually a list of 25-50 names or more depending on need and the number of quality players available.  The position needs are determined by the staff and next to each position will be a number dictating the quantity of prospects desired at each position.  For example:  Quarterback (1), Running Back (2), Full Back (1), Defensive End (4), etc.  This outlines how many commitments they would ultimately like to receive based on position out of the 25-50 total prospects listed.  When the dust settles, most “lists” have between 250-500 total names on them.

Within each position listing is another level of sorting by rank.  For example, the offensive line list will have groupings distinguished by color based on the coaching staff’s evaluation.  If I were coaching at Indiana, the top ranked linemen might be separated with a crimson color nameplate, the second tiered linemen in cream color nameplates, and white nameplates for the lowest ranked linemen of the 25-50 prospects at each position.

Once a list is done growing (which usually happens during a student-athletes junior year), the real battles begin as names are moved up or down the board and in the worst case, completely removed from the list.  Recruiting meetings can be all day marathons and often times can become contentious.

Why would a recruiting meeting with a staff become a source of disagreement? 

There are a number of reasons for this:

• 1) Need. In order to determine how many players will be recruited for each position, some coaches are forced to make concessions. For example, a defensive coach might challenge an offensive coach on the number of wide receivers on the board which will take away from the number of linebackers he can have. The head coach might let these discussions become heated before making the final decision after hearing arguments; the head coach has 51% of the vote.
• 2) Pride. Often times, an area coach will place the name of a prospect on “the list” only to have a position coach criticize the selection. This can elicit a defensive response from the area coach feeling the need to fight for his prospects. It is important to realize that an area coach is responsible for a certain geographic region and the more players that are signed from that location; the more successful that coach is considered.
• 3) Decisions.  In an effort to narrow down list, the head coach will ask the area and position coaches to defend their recruits or risk having the prospects they have spent months recruiting taken off the list…this is when a coach must jump on the table for a recruit.  With that in mind, the area coach better be prepared with transcripts, tape, etc in order to provide evidence of why their prospect should remain on the list.  Some coaches are more prepared than others and the head coach might schedule these meetings last minute which can make for some heated discussions.

Recruiting is a large portion of the livelihood of a college coach and when you are behind the closed doors in a war room; you are sometimes fighting for your career, so you can imagine how passionate those meetings can be.

“The list” is narrowed down as a prospect’s magnetic nameplate is removed from the board.  For a recruit, this is the worst possible thing that can happen.  There are a number of different reasons why a recruit would be removed from “the list,” but it usually happens quickly and unceremoniously.  After the decision is made, the nameplate is tossed into a box that the Recruiting Coordinator possesses and for the most part, the recruit is removed from all mailing lists and the game invite list, etc. by the recruiting secretary.  Essentially, the recruit is no longer discussed as a prospect. 

Randy’s advice:  Pay attention to communication patterns from the college coaches who have been recruiting you.  Recruits are rarely notified when they have been removed from “the list” and if mail and phone call patterns change, it means something!

Many of you are probably wondering, “What are some of the factors that coaches consider when moving names up, down, and off “the list?”

Great question!  Some of the topics are more obvious than others, but let’s run through a few:

• Academics. A thorough academic history is very helpful in determining the staying power a recruit’s name has on the list. The more prepared academically in regards to fulfilling core course requirements and core GPA, the better chance the prospect has to remain on the list. Even if a recruit has struggled in some of the core classes, it does not mean they will be immediately removed. However, if the coach is unable to gain access to proper documentation or notification that a recruit has intentions of improving their academic standing by taking summer school, etc. the student-athlete will not be given the benefit of the doubt. Do not ever hide or hold back the transcript. It is a red flag and can earn your nameplate a spot in the dreaded box of discarded recruits. Even if you are struggling, show the coach you are aware of the problem and have a plan to fix it. Make your academic information easily accessible. This will also give a college coach time to work with a recruit to put a plan together to stay on “the list.”

• Evaluation. Of course a significant portion of the decision to keep or remove a prospects name from the list hinges on the recruits athletic ability. With that in mind, make sure to have a quality highlight tape and at least one full game tape available for all coaches. Note – college coaches watch highlight tapes to decide if they want to watch a game tape! This film provides the area coach ammunition to defend an athlete’s place on the list. Without the film, a recruit is far more likely to be removed.

• 3^rd Party Evaluations. An evaluation by a trusted third party can go a long way towards keeping a prospect’s name on the board because it serves as a reference. Again, as an area coach puts his initial list together to bring before the rest of the staff, he is basically gathering evidence to state his case. This third party evaluation can add to the support and help the area coach defend the prospect.

• Parents! Believe it or not, a parent can be a main reason for a prospect getting dropped from the list. I recall one year that we were recruiting a top QB when we received a comment from the high school coach that the father might be a problem. Apparently the father was questioning play calling, challenging the conditioning, complaining to other parents, etc. We watched the father (almost as closely as the athlete) and ended up removing the recruit from the list because of the father’s actions.

These are just a few of the issues that can cause movement on “the list.”  While families do not often times agree with the decisions made by a coaching staff (especially when their son or daughter is taken off the list), I can assure you the process is not taken lightly and countless hours are spent debating and discussing prospects. 

While having the magnet with your name removed from the recruiting board is never an optimistic sign that you will receive a scholarship from that school, there will be a deliberation at some point about which dropped players could be valuable in a walk on capacity for the team.

One of the most difficult situations a head coach can put an area coach in is when he asks that they “keep the player alive.”  This happens when a recruit is placed at the bottom of the board and might be needed if other commits go elsewhere.  The area coach is forced to maintain contact with the prospect despite losing the help of the head coach or assistant coaches in the recruitment of that athlete.  The prospect will likely start receiving fewer letters and almost zero handwritten letters or phone calls from a college coach, but the area coach cannot lose the prospect in the off chance they are needed.  Much like the reason that recruits should cast a wide net of college programs, college coaching staffs need to keep a number of viable options available throughout the process. 

The reality is that every staff has a unique approach to the process of narrowing down their board, although most are relatively similar.  The key for every recruit is to put themselves in the best position by having everything a coach will need (transcript, video, measureables, etc) readily accessible and connecting with as many of the right schools as possible in an effort to ensure a place on an ample number of final recruiting boards. 

While college recruiting for many student-athletes is a rewarding and educational experience, the process can also be extremely frustrating and overwhelming.  Unfortunately, this frustration often times results in too many student-athletes wondering “what could have been” and leaves everyone involved pointing the finger at someone else at the end of the process.  Typically, there is no “one person” to blame and the common excuses are entirely understandable given the lack of experience most families have with recruiting.

The good news is that due to changes in recruiting in the last decade, many of the common excuses for recruiting failure can be easily avoided…

Do any of the following statements sound familiar?

“I play for a small high school and college coaches will never find me…”

“I am stuck behind a talented, older student-athlete and will never get the playing time I need to be recruited…”

“My high school team is 0-15 and they are killing my chances at getting noticed…”

“My high school coach has done nothing to help me with the recruiting process…”

For those of you who have gone through the recruiting process as a parent or student-athlete, you have undoubtedly heard one of the above reasons for recruiting disappointment.  While these factors certainly have an impact on a prospect’s recruiting process, they do not make or break success the way they once did.

As a minor disclaimer…I thoroughly appreciate why these sentiments would frustrate a student-athlete and like I said, they will have an affect on the process, but….

Think about all the advances in technology and how they have made the exchange of information between recruits and college coaches much easier than in the past.  The internet has opened new lines of communication, created efficient distribution channels, and quite simply, changed the way college coaches recruit.  The recruiting playing field is more level than ever…you just need to know how to take advantage of it!

Let’s address the traditional recruiting frustrations one at a time…

“My high school coach has done nothing to help me with the recruiting process…”

Although we have discussed why your high school coach cannot get you a scholarship in the past, it’s certainly worth reviewing again because every year it seems to be a common source of contention.  20-30 years ago, the high school coach played a much different role in college recruiting.  Much of this role centered on the access to game footage. 

Back in those days, high school coaches were almost always the only ones who had film, which forced college coaches to partner with them.  College coaches would plan recruiting trips that included stops at high schools that allowed them to review film.  This forged relationships that did in fact have a strong influence on recruiting. 

Today, college coaches have a variety of ways to review film.  Families can now film their own games with affordable video equipment and distribute it directly to college coaches.  While the high school coach can still be very helpful in this part of the process, they are no longer required.  As a result, any authority they might have had over a college coach has been greatly diminished.

Make sure to develop a strong relationship with your high school coach, because they can serve as a great mentor and a reliable reference, but keep in mind the average coach has fewer than 5 contacts with the college coaching community.  Recruiting responsibility ultimately lies with the student-athlete and no one else!

“I play for a small high school and college coaches will never find me…”

This seems to be the recruiting frustration most affected by the developments in technology.  Simply put, geographic location used to have a huge impact on college recruiting based on the difficulty coaches had in receiving information about prospects from rural areas.

However, with the internet and subsequent recruiting resources that have emerged, geographic location can be overcome to a certain degree with even the slowest of internet connections.  There are countless websites and online avenues that a student-athlete can utilize to gain exposure to college coaches. 

Think about this scenario…

The year is 1980 and a student-athlete is interested in sending their information to 50 college coaches.  Here is the process they would have to go through: First they would have to create a physical, paper athletic and academic resume.  The next step would most likely include a trip to the local library to search through a college guide to find the addresses of each college program on the list.  Once the list of addresses had been gathered, the student-athlete would have to put together a mailing list and send it out through the traditional mail…Seems rather tedious, doesn’t it?  To top it off, since the college coaches had most likely never heard of that student-athlete before, who knows if the information would have been reviewed at all?

Today, a student-athlete can create an athletic and academic resume on line in a matter of minutes.  They can then find the email addresses of most the college coaches in the country online and then put together an email campaign and send the information out.  Now that sounds a little better, doesn’t it?

“My high school team is 0-15 and they are killing my chances at getting noticed…”

While there are unquestionably some exposure advantages that can be had from playing for a state powerhouse with a tradition for winning, even student-athletes at a weaker quality high school program can gain exposure.  Using the internet as we have talked about and having a properly edited highlight and skills video can go a long way towards overcoming this obstacle. 

In the past, playing for an awful team might have truly hindered a student-athlete’s potential to play at the next level.  However, a student-athlete can now generate the initial exposure using the internet, and a college coach is ultimately looking for a qualified prospect regardless of the team’s success.  If a college coach were to watch film on a baseball player who is throwing 90 mph or a quarterback who can throw the ball 65 yards, they are going to recruit that student-athlete regardless of how many wins the high school team has.

“I am stuck behind a talented, older student-athlete and will never get the playing time I need to be recruited…”

This one is tough.  Yes, playing behind a quality athlete who might have the advantage of seniority can have an impact on a student-athlete’s recruiting.  However, if the student-athlete who is on the receiving end of this lack of playing time is truly a qualified student-athlete, there is no reason they cannot distribute their information to college coaches.  It will be important to capture any varsity game footage possible, even if its limited, and combine that with the athletic and academic information that college coaches would be interested in to get your name on their recruiting list.  This way, come senior year, the college coaches will already know your name, you will have started a recruiting relationship, and they can make sure to monitor your progress.  Waiting to get involved with college coaches until you begin playing every second of the game will significantly hamper the recruiting process.

Just as example of how you can use the resources available to overcome the playing time issue, here is a wonderful recruiting story that recently happened at NCSA.

We began working with a senior football player out of Texas.  Due to quality competition, this student-athlete was not even starting at the varsity level as a senior.  Although he received playing time, mostly late in the game when the outcome was not in question, based on his size and his willingness to pursue opportunities at all levels, our football department felt like he was someone we could help.  Using the limited game footage, we introduced him to a number of DII and DIII colleges.  Within weeks, this student-athlete, who hardly played at the high school level, had received two DII scholarship offers.

Does this happen to every backup varsity athlete?  No.  Is recruiting tougher if you are not playing full time as a Junior or Senior?  Yes.  However, if you are realistic in the level of competition you can play and you take advantages of all the resources that are available online and through technology, you can overcome many of the difficulties recruits once faced. 

Finally, your high school athletic experience no longer defines your recruiting success.  Club experience is now more accessible and more necessary than ever in many sports.  College coaches love club experience.  They view this experience as a higher level of competition and in some sports might not even recruit a student-athlete who lacks it.  Sports such as soccer, volleyball, softball, basketball, and baseball all have strong club and travel team presences.  Involvement with these types of teams in many cases will trump the high school experience all together, if not at least make up for a poor quality high school team. 

The recruiting process will indubitably cause some sort of frustration for even blue-chip recruits.  That reality is an unfortunate product of the current system.  However, families should be optimistic that there are resources readily available, if they are willing to be proactive, to help get past a few of the traditional roadblocks that have plagued recruits in the past. 

In an article in Dec. 4th’s Wall Street Journal, Harvard’s endowment has been hit by losses of 22% in the 4 months between July 1st and October 31st.  That’s 8 Billion dollars!  More than the total endowments of all but 6 universities.  Income from Harvard’s endowment funds 35% of its budget.  That includes athletics.  As mentioned in the article, all other college endowments have suffered a similar fate.  State schools, who don’t have large endowments, must cut back because of reduced tax receipts. 

So what does that mean to student athletes and their parents?  First, recruiting budgets for college coaches are going to be reduced.  That means less travel for coaches.  They will be relying more on video than ever before to evaluate talent.  Second, college coaches are going to be more careful in their selections.  So those high school students they’ve known the longest (starting freshman year) will be more likely to score the scholarship.  Third, colleges will be reducing the financial aid awarded for academics.  A smaller percentage of elite students will receive the top awards.  A student athlete who wants to compete will need better grades and test scores than ever.  She/he better be working on that starting freshman year!  Fourth, large state institutions will be cutting costs.  That means larger class sizes for required courses.   If your student-athlete doesn’t do well in class sizes of 300 or more, then they need to find a better fit.  Finally, student-athletes will be competing harder than ever for the existing scholarship dollars.  That competition will be in the work out room, in the class room, in preparing for college entrance exams, and finally in knowing the rules of the recruiting game.   How can you gain a significant competitive advantage over others and win the recruiting game?  Start here.

It is the time of the year where I get a lot of, ”Is it too late for me to find a place to play?”  Absolutely NOT!  Coaches at Division II and III are just getting into their main recruiting season.  I encourage every athlete with the desire to play to pick up the phone and start calling college coaches today.  You can also contact NCSA for an evaluation to learn how we can jump start your recruiting cycle.  As the video below proves, you never know… 

 Today’s New York Times posted a great article about the emergence of Internet videos as a tool for college athletic recruiting.  The article examined how a father initially posted a YouTube video for fun and soon his daughter was being recruited.

A couple of hundred fans were on hand in Weston, Fla., in 2006 to see April Carson break the Tequesta Trace Middle School record for 3-pointers in a game. But her father posted an Internet Video of the performance, which has been viewed more than 11,000 times by people who have joined that small crowd in watching April sink seven 3-pointers.

Among the expanded audience were representatives of women’s college basketball programs across the country. Baylor, Clemson, Princeton and Yale have sent recruiting questionnaires and e-mail messages to April’s family.

Now a 15-year-old high school sophomore, April is among a growing group of young athletes to benefit from the growing influence of Internet video on sports.

“Originally, I just wanted to make a highlight reel as a keepsake,” said Billy Carson, April’s her father and A.A.U. coach.

But after his homemade highlights of April drew a following, Billy Carson changed his approach. He and his daughter sent YouTube links of their videos via e-mail messages to college programs.

“You have to be aggressive and seek out colleges that you are interested in, especially today,” Billy Carson said.

College coaches acknowledge that the internet has become a primary tool in identifying talent for their programs.

Chris Gobrecht, the Yale women’s basketball coach, said it was now common for coaches to receive e-mail messages with video links. Recruiting rules prohibited Gobrecht from commenting specifically on Carson. But she described online highlights as “a good place to start” in scouting talent.

Alas there is a downside

The problem is that you can’t see well or judge if someone will truly help your team from just a video,” Gobrecht said.

Despite the clear benefits, Marie Hardin, an associate professor of journalism at Penn State who teaches course on sports media, said “Coaches need the chance to talk to a player, and see them play to accurately assess their talent.”

At NCSA we taken this Internet model and strengthened it with our verified Scouting Reports (compare it to a typical YouTube Video here).  Our Scouting Reports are a vast improvement on an email with a video link.  The video is a marked improvement featuring improved flash clarity, spot shadowing, and proper sequencing.  We couple the video with verified grades and stats to make it a complete snap shot for any college coach. 

When NCSA puts its trusted name on a prospect a college coach is far more likely to actually view the video.  A coach can then easily look at a players contact information and begin the next steps towards deciding if a prospect is worthy of a scholarship.  I encourage every recruit to get their name out on the internet.  I would also encourage every recruit to learn the advantage of an NCSA enhanced video.

I’ve got this great new car that I think you’d like – V-8 engine, leather interior, personal navigational system, Dolby Digital Surround sound, anti-lock breaks, gets 40 mpg, and handles like a dream. Here’s a picture of it:

Like it? That will be $110,000, please.

Wait, you’re not going to buy it? Why not? I’ve given you all of the specs and you’ve seen a picture of it! What else do you need?

Oh, you want a test drive!

Hopefully by now, you’ve caught on the where I’m going with this. High school student-athletes (and their familes, for that matter) often wonder why they’re not being looked at by more colleges and why they’re not getting scholarships to play at the ones that are looking at them, even though they have a profile and a picture of themselves.

Here’s the kicker though. They don’t have a highlight video. What that means is that coaches can’t take a “test drive.”

Before coaches shovel out scholarship dollars in your direction, they need to make sure you’re worth the investment by seeing you play. And because schools don’t have unlimited recruiting budgets, they unfortunately can’t travel to all 20,000 high schools across the nation for that to happen. So, the highlight video is the coach’s best friend. 

It’s one thing if you can run a 4.5 forty. It’s another thing entirely if the coach can see you use that speed to break away from tacklers. You can bench 250, but can you use that strength to bring down the charging tight end? The fastball hit 85 mph on the gun. The question is, did it hit where the catcher’s mitt was?

It’s one thing to see the car and its specs. It’s something totally different to get in and take it for a spin.

(And I don’t have a Maserati … sorry.)

 With Football season kicking off recruits are starting to send tapes to colleges all over the country knowing that decisions on scholarships are offered at a sometimes blinding pace.  Many athletes are depending on their high school coach to assist with the process.  At Fleming Island, one of the top athletic high schools in Florida, Coach Neal Chipoletti is working overtime to make sure his players get the recognition they deserve.  Gatorcountry.com details Coach Chipoletti’s efforts in assisting 2010 Florida commit Ian Silberbman:

“We sent out Ian’s highlight tape to over 100 schools across the country,” Fleming Island coach Neal Chipoletti said. “If a kid demonstrates the interest in playing college football, we will do everything we can to help them out.”

Fleming Island offensive line coach Damenyum Springs has known all along that he has a big time player on his hands. He knew it wouldn’t be long until the rest of the country discovered what he already knew.

“A lot of people didn’t know or hadn’t seen him,” Springs said of Silberman, whose first season as a starter was last season as a sophomore. “His highlight film was nice and people said ‘wow, how did we miss this kid?’ Then everyone jumped [to try and recruit him].”

Chipoletti said he bought $1,500 worth of DVDs, in order to make highlight tapes for his players and also has invested heavily into audio-visual equipment to help make the process go smooth.

Things have paid off quickly for Fleming Island, which has sent 30 players to college in only five seasons of fielding a varsity football team.

Overall, it takes a total commitment from everyone involved at the program to help kids make it to the next level.

“My principal and athletic director have been very supportive of everything we’ve done,” Chipoletti said. “They’ve allowed me to bring in talented coaches … the coaches who coach for me are professionals and do a great job with the kids.”

What parent and recruits all over the country need to realize is that the effort by Coach Chipoletti is far from the norm.  Even with all of his extra work several issues need to be considered.  There is a tremendous cost involved with sending so many DVD’s around the country.  For athletes that aren’t targeting D1 schools, 100 schools may not be enough.  Also, many athletes are asked by coaches to send in updates as the season progresses or early next season.  If this is the case the tremendous cost and effort in sending out so many DVD’s will have to be repeated.  Can you count on your high school coach for that much help?

The reality is that you can’t.  Coaches are paid to coach, not to find athletes a place to play in college.  That is why thousands of athletes are turning to NCSA’s verified scouting reports.  They allow athletes to quickly send updated information and video to coaches around the country efficiently.  Too many athletes wait too long waiting for help that never arrives.  I suggest that you get moving today.