NCAA Scholarships: How long to coaches wait for you to decide?

Scholarship Offers: How Long Do Coaches Hold the Offer and Wait for You to Decide?

With recruiting beginning earlier and earlier, coaches are anxious to get their top prospects committed and finished with the recruiting process. For most players, scholarship offers have an unspoken expiration date! With each scholarship class coaches determine their needs, position-by-position, and allocate slots based on where they are lacking depth. Once they determine their needs for each signing class, they …

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Scholarship Money: What Will YOUR Scholarship Offer Include?

Realistically, for many players, money WILL be a major decision factor when selecting a future school. Colleges vary greatly with the costs of tuition, room and board, course-related books, fees, along with transportation and extra expenses you may have such as cell phone bills, clothing, entertainment. It all adds up—and scholarship money makes a difference for most student-athletes and their …

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Selection Factors: Write Thoughts in the Moment & Keep Detailed Notes

As you take Unofficial Visits, Official Visits and spend countless hours talking with coaches on the phone, it’s easy for your thoughts and impressions to begin to blend together weeks later once you’re home. A great practice is keep a notebook, with space for each school or coach to have their own section for notes. Keep track of what was …

All Campus Visits (Official & Unofficial) Communicating with Coaches

Unofficial Visits: Setting Up a Visit to a School That Has Not Shown Interest Yet

The good news is within all programs – not all recruits who were offered scholarships were players who the coaches went after and found on their own. A good chunk of players who earn scholarship offers are ones who approached the school first. So, if you aren’t gaining much interest and/or if there are some programs you are very interested …

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Official Visits/Unofficial Visits – What to Expect

On Official and Unofficial visits, coaches are trying to both get to know you better and let you get a better understanding of them. It’s a two-way street and visits are their opportunities to show you what they have to offer. The important takeaway from visits is getting a feel for what it will be like to live there, go …

Academics All Campus Visits (Official & Unofficial) Committing Communicating with Coaches Selection Factors

10 Must-Ask Questions During the Recruiting Process

10 MUST-ASK QUESTIONS DURING THE RECRUITING PROCESS AND DURING OFFICIAL/UNOFFICIAL VISITS #1: What are grad rates of your sport nationally, and how do they compare to the schools that you are looking at? Does that university and your specific team graduate their players? What percentage of that teams’ players have graduated in the last 5-10 years? #2: What are the …

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… More Questions to Ask During Recruiting Process

Whether choosing a school as a blue-chip prospect with 50 scholarship offers or as a Division III non-scholarship athlete, it is very important to develop your personal selection criteria that will help you through the process – and prioritize it based on your non- negotiables and your preferences. Before the process becomes overwhelming, what are the core factors that you …

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20 Signs of a Successful College Coach

#1: They demand perfection in everything that you do, even off-the- field #2: They understand that winning is the only thing that they will be judged on and can balance game preparations, strategy and player development with other job requirements that don’t necessarily effect wins and losses #3: They learn from every coach they have worked for and keep everything …

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Committing: 30 Factors Recruits Consider When Selecting a School

Players choose schools for a variety of reasons, many recruits focusing on a key three or four factors they must-have when making their decision. Below are a list of 30 factors (some good and some worthless) that players consider when making their decisions: #1 – Graduation Rates of Athletes #2 – Class Size #3 – Academic Support Available for Student-Athletes …

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Picking a School: Develop Your Selection Criteria

Coaches have their own checklist of characteristics and skills that they are looking for. You need to develop one as well! As you sit down, think about the few things that are really important to you, that will help you become a successful player, eventual college graduate and person. In order to be successful in a situation, you need to …

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