Athletic Scholarship Advice for HS & JuCo Athletes
A: One of the toughest adversities all athletes face are injuries, particularly season-ending or career-ending injuries. From my experiences, they are much tougher mentally on most players than physically and a setback you can likely overcome. From a recruiting standpoint, not all season-ending injuries will effect your potential to earn a scholarship. From my experiences, college coaches will often stick …
A: Hard to say, could be a little bit of both. Coaches invite potential recruits they want to do more evaluations on, and players they are actively recruiting to camps. But yes, coaches and especially Camp Directors are numbers-oriented, with the goal to fill the camps up. A sign to decode their invite: are you hearing from them otherwise—Junior Day …
A: It’s important to follow-up with schools after sending your highlights. To be honest, coaches don’t always have a ton of time to watch film from unsolicited (not requested) recruits and they may get hundreds of emails, calls and packages each month from players they know nothing about. This is why it’s important to follow-up after you send your film! …
A: Yes, recruiting can pick up or even begin your senior year. If you have little or no interest after your junior year you have a few options. The most important things to remember if you are in this situation are that you must be willing to do the footwork on your own (do the research, make up to hundreds …
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Alabama OC Bill O’Brien: Transfer portal ‘similar to (NFL) free agency but without the rules’ Alabama football offensive coordinator Bill O’Brien took part in free agency plenty while he was in the NFL. Before coming to Tuscaloosa, O’Brien served as general manager and coach of the Houston Texans. He also spent five seasons as an assistant coach with the New …
College athletes are unpaid. What if injury ruins their chance of turning pro? It was founded in 1906 to improve player safety but resisting accountability for injuries has long been at the heart of the NCAA’s insistence that college athletes are amateurs. US college sports’ major governing body began using the term “student athlete” as a legal strategy when the …
ESPN: Alabama, Cincinnati and how the transfer portal shaped the College Football Playoff This is the way college football has worked. One minute, a wide receivers coach at Eastern Michigan is watching Jerome Ford rip off a 79-yard touchdown run in last year’s Peach Bowl between Cincinnati and Georgia. The next minute, that wide receivers coach is a running backs …
BusinessInsider.com: How college athletes are getting paid from brand sponsorships as NIL marketing takes off On July 1, after a decades-long fight, student-athletes across the country gained the right to make money from their names, images, and likenesses (NIL) thanks to a flurry of new state laws and an NCAA policy change. What happened next was a mad rush of …
SI.com: Matt Corral’s Knee Injury Places Opt-Outs in Perspective NEW ORLEANS – You never want to see it. A player goes down with an injury to the knee area. In the AllState Sugar Bowl on Saturday night, another victim was claimed. This time it happened to a potential first round NFL Draft pick in Ole Miss signal caller Matt Corral. …