Getting on a coach's radar

If your son or daughter wants to get on a college coach’s radar, and wants to be recruited by that school, what should you do?

The best method is something I personally learned early on with my twin boys and what I’ve been teaching families for years. And it's this: Create a well crafted introductory packet to send to college coaches.

This packet needs to introduce the athlete to the coach in a very personal way; one that gets their interest and makes them want to know more. It should give the personal and athletic details that a coach wants to see at first glance so he can make a quick screening decision.

You should never send an all inclusive, here’s everything, dump. You should be selective on what you say, but it should provide just the right information to get the coach's interest so he or she begins that back and forth recruiting "courtship."


It’s really important that you make a good first impression. Coaches get hundreds of prospects to filter through. They need to identify a few that they want to invest recruiting time in. If you turn them off with a bad first contact, you could move down their list or off it altogether, so you need not risk that. You need to do it right.

If you present yourself well with the first contact, then you move on to become one of their prospects.

For instance, there’s a kid from New York that we helped with his introductory package. As a consequence his dad was just so excited about the results that he emailed us and said that within five days, two coaches from Division 1 schools had already contacted his high school coach to check up on him. This family did a good introductory package. It was powerful.

Make yours powerful, too. The Recruit-Me System explains in detail how to put together your introductory package, how to get a coach's attention, how to receive letters and phone calls, and how to take the relationship all the way to a scholarship. For more information, and the full story of how I did that with my twin sons, go to the Recruit-Me website.

The time is NOW

When is the best time to contact college coaches? We get that question a lot, and most often we say now. During the summer, let me put that in caps--- NOW!

This is the one time of the year when every sport is out of season and coaches have the most time to pursue recruits. What are you doing to get their attention? Here three things you can do-- and complete -- in the next week:

1. Research colleges and make a list of least 10 prospective schools you are interested in.
2. Put together your introductory packet.
3. Send it to the 10 schools

This is a great time to pour yourself into your recruiting campaign. You are out of school and have the time you do not have the rest of the year.

You Are Invited to a Scholarship Event

We're just days away!

This Thursday night, May 28, get your recruiting questions answered. There's a buzz about our Recruit-Me TeleWebcast coming up. The response was so great last month, and the topic is so hot right now, that we are offering you this second chance to attend -- from the convenience of your phone or computer.

What You Must Know About Athletic Scholarships: An Orientation For Parents to the Recruiting Process, with Jon Fugler & Ron Johnston, Recruiting Coaches.

This is FREE. Sign up for one of two times this Thursday: 8:00 pm Eastern or 10:00 pm Eastern, whichever is more convenient.

We look forward to seeing you there!

Beware of Black Holes

Beware of black holes.

There are a number of ways you could choose to run your recruiting campaign. Besides running it yourself, you could hire a service, consultant, or a web-based company to get on coaches’ radar.

WARNING: While here are some reputable companies out there, and many that perform well, it will usually cost $1,000-$3,000 or more.

When you’re making your decision on how you will run your recruiting campaign, look at the options carefully. These days, most families can’t afford to spend hundreds or thousands of dollars to TRY to get their student-athlete recruited. Who wants to take that risk?

Of course, we’re biased towards our do-it-yourself system called Recruit-Me, but don’t take our word for it. We would expect you to examine the evidence. That’s why we have testimonials from families on our website at www.recruit-me.com, and we’d be glad to send you more.

Testimonies like Chris’:

He and his family began following our process in the summer before his senior year. Now, that seems kind of late but his mom said this in an email, “I couldn’t be more pleased with the whole process. One of Chris’ offers is for $72k guaranteed over four years in baseball as a pitcher, that’s $18k times four years.

"We are thrilled, the system definitely works and by the way one of the top recruiting services in the nation asked me if I would like a job with them because of my work in recruiting.”

So let’s look at the biggest options:

Option #1: You may want a turnkey solution, so the consultant route could be for you. It’s the most expensive way, and you really do have to do a lot of the work yourself when it comes to communicating with coaches, taking phone calls, corresponding, and visiting campuses.

Option #2: A service might be a good fit for you. They send out initial packets to schools on your behalf or put your information on their website. It is still expensive, but less than a consultant. And you still have to do most of the follow-up work, despite often paying around $1,000.

Option #3: Most families can’t even afford $100, and that’s why we developed the Recruit-Me System as a third option. As long as you’re going to have to do a lot of the work yourself, why not keep the money and do it according to our successful step-by-step process?

Whichever method you choose, choose something! Don’t just sit around and wait or nothing is likely to happen. And be sure to do your homework to see which method is the best fit for you.

Find out more.

NCAA Concerned About Facebook

You need to read this article on recruiting regulations for attracting scholarship athletes:

(From The University Daily Kansan, May 4) "A year and a half ago, text messaging was the NCAA’s main concern regarding recruits. After prohibiting coaches from text messaging potential recruits, Facebook has become a new source of tension."

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Recruiting Tele-Webcast returns

We had a great time with dozens of parents on April 28 at our Recruiting Tele-Webcast. We went through the six non-negotiable steps to an athletic scholarship. There were a lot of great questions submitted, , too, many of which we answered during the event. We answered others by live chat, personally one-to-one during the event, through our Tele-Webcast technology.

There were some people who checked here before the Tele-Webcast and were not sure how to sign up, and we apologize for that.

But there's good news. This topic is so hot right now that we will be covering it again, sharing the same material, AND TAKING QUESTIONS, on Thursday, May 28 at 8 pm and 10 pm Eastern Time (5 pm and 7 pm Pacific). Sign ups will begin May 16.

You can check back here for the link, or go to the Recruit-Me website now and sign up for the FREE STUFF. All our Free Stuff subscribers will receive notification of the May 28 Tele-Webcast.