Email of the Day: Communicating with College Coaches

Most parents are uncomfortable trying to initiate recruiting communication with college coaches. Few do it well. Here’s a good example of an appropriate inquiry from parents and a well-written, honest, no BS response from a D1 coach. (If you’re curious, the coach responded in two days, which is more than appropriate.)   Dear Coach Smith, […]

Smart College Recruitment

The email below is my response to a parent who called asking for help with college recruitment. Her daughter, a junior who just reclassified, already has 3 full D2 offers. Mom is getting contacted regularly by colleges and has no idea how to respond. She was never an athlete herself and by her own admission […]

Overwhelmed by the Recruiting Process? Put Education First.

I returned recently from a major east coast summer basketball camp where I had a lengthy discussion about the recruiting process with the mother of a talented junior. Her son is a good student who already holds offers from D1 schools, none of them big-time. A single mom with two kids who never went to college and never played sports, she told me […]

Quote of the Day – College vs. Minor League Baseball

After seeing the body of work, the development that occurred, the maturity that occurred, I know it was the right decision (to play college ball).     – This from a  mid-level D1 college baseball player who was drafted in the 35th round out of high school, but opted for college. Three years of college […]