Recruiting Services- Why They Are a Bad Idea

You have probably seen these everywhere. A website, that for a monthly or large upfront fee, will let you post your athletic profile online. They promise hundreds of coaches will be viewing your profile and they will send your profile to hundreds of schools. Do these websites work and should you consider them?

As a coach, these services fax 30 to 40 profiles a day to the athletic office. Players from all over the country. There is no way to call back each of these playes and find out who they really are. On these profiles, every player looks the same, the all have the same stats, same layout, same action photo. There is no incentive or call to action for me, as a coach to call these players.

These websites also promise coaches will be searching through their profile looking for players. This may be true at the DIII level where the athletic department has no recruiting budget. Also DIII schools do not exactly have players knocking down their door trying to get noticed.

If you want to play college athletics and get a scholarship, you must stand out from the crowd. Suscribing to a profile webiste is not the wa to do it. How are you going to separate yourself from the masses and the competition by joining them?

We also see services that will happily charge your $300 to $2000 to make a highlight video of yourself to send to colleges. While you do need a highlight tape it is a common misconception that the more professional the tape, the better chance of getting recruited. Trust us, this is not true. We can tell from a regular tape, you did on your own, how fast you run, how well you play. Professional high def footage does not improve your level of play! Please be smart and don’t waste money of these services.

Tapes and recruiting letters done by the athlete show more initiative and determination that those players who pay to have it done.

The only way to earn a college athletic scholarship is do it yourself. Show desire and treat recruiting with the same effort that you put into playing your sport. We show you in our book how to do it yourself, save a ton of money, and with better results.

CLICK HERE to see the college athletic scholarship recruiting system that shows you how to earn the scholarship you deserve.