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Each day in May a different blogger will be writing about something true, important, or moving.
I hope you will read along each day this month. Interact and ask questions. Quote, share, comment, and challenge, with respect. Appreciate, learn, and "march" along with us.
Links to each day's blog post will appear on The Robin Renée Blog. Robin is a friend and fellow activist who I've known for decades. I'm honored to be part of this movement.
My blog post will appear here on EverythingSysadmin.com on Monday 5/15.
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If you are one of the few football players in the country with scholarship offers in hand (By that I mean a written offer, not a verbal scholarship), you still need to consider yourself a very lucky person. The percentage of scholarship football players is less than 2% when Signing Day comes around. The fact that you have early offers says something about your ability.
But like most athletes, you would love to see that offer list grow even more so that you will be given more opportunities as where you would like to attend college. Scholarship offers breed other offers and the fact that you have them this early will help you at camps and combines. The coaches and experts will take a longer look at you because you have a scholarship offer behind your name.
In regards to those camps, you need to make a decision as to which ones you want to go to. Now is a great time to try and figure out where you want to go during the June camp period. The biggest thing that you must figure out is if you want to learn more about the schools that offered you or try to impress other college coaches at schools that are just recruiting you and have yet to offer.
The reason that you go to the schools that have offered is to get to learn more about the coaches. You would get a chance first hand to see how they coach. While some may not be as intense as they normally are, you should be able to get a good feel for how they coach. There will also be down time when you get a chance to learn more about the coach himself and what type of person that they are. The coaches will definitely use this time to build a bond that can help them later on in the recruiting process.
The good news about attending other college camps is that with offers in your back pocket, the school will take a much longer look at you. Without those, they may evaluate for a brief time and then move on. An offer makes them think about why another school wants you that bad. And if you are at their camp, it does show that you are interested enough in their school to drive their and pay for camp. This is a big benefit for both parties involved.
You also may make the decision to save the money and not attend camps. If that is the case, then you should use part of your summer to take college visits. Although you won’t get a chance to see the coaches getting after it on the field, you will be able to build a relationship in person with the coaching staffs. If you have the time and resources, it may be worth going to the schools that have offered and a few that have not. When at the schools that are still evaluating you, ask them what you can improve on and what you need to do to a get a scholarship from their school. Yes, these are not easy questions to ask but definitely worth it in the long run.
If you are unhappy with the current crop of schools that have offered and are recruiting you, it may be time to go back to a few important steps in the recruiting process. As I wrote about in the five steps to a scholarship (CLICK HERE FOR THE ARTICLE), you need to start searching for schools that match you (Step #2) and also market yourself to those schools (Step #3). If you haven’t already done so, you may also want to build a recruiting profile as well (Step #1).
These steps give you an opportunity to be the one contacting the coaches. While a school like USC may not show that much interest, having a Division I offer already does help open some eyes when you contact them. Tell them why you are interested in their school and that should help matters. You may also take the time and contact your dream school that you grew up watching. It may not lead to anything but you just never know.
When looking at your scholarship offers, if you basically know where you want to go to college and that school has extended a scholarship, you might as well verbally commit. Make sure that you are sold on the school as well as your family because you should not be committing and changing your mind later on. You can now spend part of your time helping to recruit for that program.
Again, you are in a great situation where you can pick and choose what you do. Take your time during the process and research all the schools that are recruiting you. That should help you break things down and get closer to that eventual college decision.
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As someone who talks with football recruits throughout the country, I can say flat out that I love the months of April and May. The reason is because this is the time to separate the haves from the have nots. It finally shows what recruits have serious recruiting interest and others who don’t.
First off, why are calls so important? I will say that at least 95% of athletes who get Division I-A/BCS offers get calls from the colleges during the spring evaluation period. There are exceptions but again, at least 95% of these eventual offers come from schools that call at this time. If you think State University is serious and could offer, a call is nearly a must.
If you talk to a junior football recruit in the month of March, they can talk about how great their Junior Day visits were, how they have gotten so many camp invites, and all the hand written mail that they have received from college coaches. Each of these cannot hold a candle to how much a call means.
First off, some schools invite hundreds of athletes to Junior Days. While it is a cool experience to see the school, most colleges are covering their bases by mass inviting as many athletes as possible. You might as well light camp invites on fire because they mean nothing. They are a money grab from the college coaches. They know that certain athletes will go to the camp just because you send them an invite. It doesn’t mean anything.
As for hand written letters, it definitely won’t hurt anything to receive them. But you really have no idea who exactly wrote them. And if they are taking this time to write a hand written letter, why wouldn’t they touch base with you over the phone?
Phone calls are vital because it means that a coach at that school is actually taking the time out of their busy days to touch base and show how important you are as a recruit. It may last five or ten minutes but it shows that you are high enough on their board to show that attention to.
Some colleges will wait until late in the evaluation process to call but I can figure out very quickly what level a college thinks a player is. All you have to ask a junior football recruit is what colleges have called you since April. You will often see the athletes shift the question and talk about how he talked to one school and how another visited the school. What really matters is the call.
I have wrote it many times before but if you are going to major Division I-A/BCS camps this summer and your calls are from Division I-AA/FCS schools, then you are likely wasting your money at the camps. The reason is because these bigger schools don’t consider you, at least at this point, to be a serious recruit. They may invite you to campus, send mail, and say you need to come to camp. But in the end, if a call doesn’t come, you are risking a large sum of money for nothing.
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