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09/01/16 10:06am
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NSR Recruiting
National Scouting Report, the world's oldest and largest high school scouting and college recruiting organization, is back on the ground for the 2016-17 school year.
Directed by Gary Silvers, former Executive Sports Editor of the Bucks County Courier Times, NSR of Southeastern PA has been helped dozens of Suburban One League student-athletes in all sports connect with college coaches (NCAA Divisions I, II and III, NAIA and NJCAA) and receive offers.
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06/13/16 8:25am
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NSR Recruiting
As the Southeastern PA Director of College Scouting for National Scouting Report, I constantly encourage high school athletes to build relationships with college coaches.
There are a number of ways I instruct prospects to initiate contact and remain in touch with college coaches, although coaches are severely limited to when and how they can make contact with prospects. Staying within the recruiting rules is the responsibility of the prospects, so knowing the rules is essential.
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05/31/16 8:02am
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NSR Recruiting
One of the first questions I ask potential college prospects is: How far are you willing to travel to play college sports?
Many times, those high school athletes respond: "I want to stay close to home.�
Wrong answer.
Right answer: "I'm open-minded.�
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05/16/16 8:32am
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NSR Recruiting
Where college prospects dream of playing rarely matches their final destination.
Reality in recruiting frequently stuns high school prospects and their parents. Time is the culprit.
Families wake up one crisp Saturday morning, pile into the minivan and excitedly head to their first T-ball game. The next thing they know, their young athletes are preparing for their high school junior year. And, much to their chagrin, they are lagging far behind in the recruiting process.
But that time warp did not stop those young athletes from dreaming of playing for their favorite schools. They simply don't know any better, so the dream, which likely will not come true, still lives. It is a shocking realization.
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05/02/16 8:40am
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NSR Recruiting
Remember the song "Only the Strong Survive�? It was a big hit in the late 1960s, its lyrics coinciding with a popular phrase of the time.
However, in high school athletics, that phrase isn't so true anymore.
Much to the surprise of many parents and prospects, high school athletes don't have to be all-stars to play college sports. Many support-role athletes have gone on to successful college careers.
There are lots of high school athletes who don't make headlines but are good enough to play at the college level. They simply need to be exposed to college coaches.
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04/18/16 8:58am
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NSR Recruiting
A cardinal sin made by parents of high school athletes hoping to play at the college level is presuming there is no harm in waiting to be recruited.
There is glaring evidence of this each day with announcements across the country of freshman and sophomore athletes committing to colleges or coaches making scholarship offers to athletes in eighth, ninth or 10th grade.
Within recent months:
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04/04/16 7:54am
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NSR Recruiting
Start the countdown!
Ten … nine … eight … seven … six … five …
On Wednesday, April 13, thousands of high school seniors, including dozens from the Suburban One League, will proudly slip on their favorite college T-shirt, take their seat behind a table, smile for the cameras and sign a National Letter of Intent on the first day of the NCAA's regular signing period.
High school athletes in more than 20 sports will become "official� college athletes after signing binding agreements to play for their chosen colleges and universities. It's a day they will remember for the rest of their lives.
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03/21/16 9:09am
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NSR Recruiting
Author and consultant Stephen Covey famously wrote about seven habits for managing life. One of those is called First Things First. It is a powerful concept, but one that is sadly unfamiliar to many high school prospects and their parents. Not knowing that can manifest itself in off-target efforts and lost dreams.
Simply stated, many parents today want to rush everything.
Parents think today's kids need to be "playing up." They have to make the all-star team, work out at the best gym, attend the biggest camps and start on varsity as sophomores. Coming up short is tantamount to abject failure.
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03/07/16 8:51am
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NSR Recruiting
High school athletes and their families often suffer the indignity of being unceremoniously dropped from consideration by college coaches. It can happen anytime to anyone. Nobody is safe from the recruiting guillotine.
Why is college recruiting so cutthroat?
First of all, recruiting is all about numbers -- the more, the merrier - for college coaches. The Internet has dramatically changed recruiting and the number of athletes coaches can access, evaluate and contact. Each week, coaches receive huge numbers of profiles on prospects, so many that they typically never see a large percentage of them.
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02/22/16 7:55am
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NSR Recruiting
Want to play college sports?
Good luck!
Your chances are better of earning straight A's.
College recruiting is a numbers game. There are far more qualified high school student-athletes than there are college roster spots, let alone athletic scholarships. The odds are stacked against you.
Here's what you're facing: