Scouting out talent

[new2game]

I'm very new to the world of sports how do the scouts hear about talented

kids ?

[defense1st]

Coaches and combines.

[dominator_58]

Coaches usually recruit for their players and combines are big helpers in recruiting.

[CoachJ]

I'm very new to the world of sports how do the scouts hear about talented

kids ?

 

One of THREE or FOUR ways:

 

1) the kid is a phenom -- like LeBron James or Tim Couch. They play so far above everyone else their own age that they break records or seem like "men among boys" so they get media from all over converging to document "a story."

 

Sometimes, a respected alumnus of a college lives in a particular place where this phenom exists and they call the college to let them know he's there.

 

Colleges (and in the case of basketball and baseball, the pros) hear about these kids and go see them.

 

2) the kid's COACH makes highlight tapes of the kid, assembles these onto MANY tapes along with a full game or two featuring the kid, writes a letter on his behalf (including why he'd be an asset to the school beyond what's seen on the tape), and sends them to as many schools as possible to let them see the recruit with their own eyes.

 

The coach may also make direct phone calls to the college coaches to follow up on the kid, make sure they got the tape, and -- importantly -- make sure they actually LOOKED at the tape (many colleges, I've found, will just let one of their Graduate Assistants look at each tape that comes in on any kid they don't already know about and assess whether or not the tape should get passed on to a "real" assistant).

 

3) the kid may hire a RECRUITING SERVICE -- sort of analagous to AN AGENT for a HS kid. Their costs range from about $300 to over $3,000 and the services they provide ranges from simply sending out an email to a long list of colleges (might get looked at by a coach, might not) to doing the tape/phone calls thing the player's coach should be doing.

 

** If I were a kid today, I'd be VERY careful and do my homework before hiring someone. I'd ask for REFERENCES from previous athletes he's represented with similar size, stats, etc. and actually TALK to a few kids that used that service and his parents about quality of the services they received. Even if a kid didn't get the full-ride they wanted (and very, VERY few do!), if the service worked hard for the kid, they'll usually tell you so and not hold against the service the fact that the result wasn't exactly what was wanted.

 

4) If they're not a 'phenom,' they have a coach that doesn't feel like he has to go above and beyond for his players, and he can't afford a service, the kid can STILL do the work on his own.

 

a) BEFORE JUNIOR YEAR: Work his BUTT off in his off-season getting his weaknesses improved and making his strengths even better (hopefully, his school has a good comprehensive, year-round training program...if not it may be worth it to invest what money he and his family can scrape up and sign up with a training center like Velocity sports or the HIT Center -- usually, there's several of these located in the major metro areas of the state, Cincinnati, Evansville, etc.).

Hopefully you won't have to pay an outside trainer and this exists for FREE at your school by a qualified coach...either way, the program MUST be comprehensive -- it must work on SKILLS and TECHNIQUES specific to their position, it must develop SPEED, AGILITY, COORDINATION, QUICKNESS, and EXPLOSIVENESS along with STRENGTH (not enough just to go "bulk up" in the weight room doing "bodybuilder" workouts if you really want to be a good FOOTBALL player). If your high school program just does those things, I'd recommend going to a CERTIFIED SPORT and CONDITIONING SPECIALIST in addition to what you do at your school.

This may seem like a lot of serious work for a "game"...and it is! But remember, you're talking about wanting some college to INVEST up to HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS on you over a 5-year period...they're approaching it SERIOUSLY...you'd better too!

 

b) JUNIOR SEASON: have a GREAT junior season on the field. This is the KEY for getting recruited by scholarship-giving schools. If you're only good during your SENIOR year, it's almost too late! The colleges get their "top recruits" boards done in the summer after their camps and it's hard to break onto this board after it's done.

 

c) WINTER AFTER JUNIOR SEASON (might be best to WAIT until after the National Signing Date for that year's seniors so you don't get "mixed in" with them): make his own HIGHLIGHT TAPE of his 5-10 best plays from his Soph. and Jr. seasons and his best full game or 2. His school media center might have the equipment and expertise to help him with this. If not, again, it might be worth it to invest in going to a Video Editing business to make it.

Would need to get copies of all his games and take the time to pluck out his best plays. MAKE SURE THE COPIES ARE OF GOOD QUALITY!!! Try to do them DIGITALLY as opposed to just copying a VHS over and over...colleges get REALLY upset when they get a tape they can't see well.

 

d) WINTER AND SPRING OF JUNIOR YEAR: work specifically on getting ready for COMBINES (in addition to what your coach asks you to do for football training).

Get that FORTY TIME down to as absolutely FAST as you can -- and get as BIG and THICK as you can get while still getting faster. Doesn't matter if you rush for 2,000 yds a year in HS; if you're just a good, tough back who overcomes a lack of speed or size with your toughness, the colleges will NOT care! They want SIZE and/or SPEED (preferably, BOTH). And that's EVERY position.

Find out what they are and TRAIN on the SPECIFIC drills being done to measure QUICKNESS. Most use a basic "pro-shuttle-run" but some use variations. Either way, you CAN improve your time by DOING these drills...and there are "tricks" to doing them that will cut your time down (the HIT Centers and Velocity--and hopefully your own coach!-- have people that have worked to break down exactly how you can "tweak" your technique to shave tenths of seconds off your time). I'm sure there's advice on the internet too if you do a Google search for the specific name of the drill or just search "football combine drills."

 

e) SPRING JUNIOR YEAR: Get to as many COMBINES as you can so there's DOCUMENTATION other than your high school coach's word (which college coaches do NOT believe!) on how fast, tall, and heavy you are.

The NCAA may be changing the rules on these where the college coaches can't be there in person...but they'll still probably look at the times that come out of them to verify you as somebody they should really be recruiting for a scholarship or someone that should just be asked to walk-on.

 

f) SUMMER BEFORE SENIOR YEAR: GET TO AS MANY COLLEGE SUMMER CAMPS AS POSSIBLE -- especially the "top 2 or 3" schools you like that have ACTUALLY SHOWN INTEREST IN YOU (BUT!!!! it doesn't matter if Miami is your #1 school but you're a 5'9 option QB...go to the camps of the schools where you're SURE you can play and they've somehow already let you KNOW you're a recruit for them!). Ask your HS coach what he thinks your real potential is...or call one of the colleges you sent your Jr. year tape and ask them to be brutally HONEST with you about where you can possibly play.

And while at the camp(s), perform in a way that makes you STAND OUT from the others there at your position. They're only giving ONE or TWO scholarships at each position likely; if you're the FIFTH-BEST kid at your position at their camp, why would they go after you!?

Oh yeah, and be COACHABLE while at their camp (do EXACTLY what they tell you to do technique-wise; say 'yes-sir, no-sir,' etc.); if there's someone else there at your position, at you're exactly EVEN athletically, but you're coachable and the other guy's a "prima donna" to their coaches -- they'll decide they'd much rather have someone open to COACHING around for 5 years than someone that thinks their way is best (but again, that's ONLY if you're EVEN athletcially...they'll take a "prima donna" with better talent every time -- despite what they say in public!).

 

g) SENIOR YEAR: Have a GREAT senior season on the field.

 

h) AFTER ABOUT HALF-WAY THROUGH SENIOR SEASON: Get ANOTHER highlight tape done to send out as an "update" on the one you sent out just after your Junior year.

 

i) AFTER THE SEASON: be PERSISTENT. Write an update letter with any pertinent stats or accomplishments you made or any awards earned to ALL the schools that seem to have some interest in you (are at least sending letters). ** Be careful though, being "All-District" isn't all that impressive to a school -- they want ALL-STATE guys; if you point out you're "All-District" that may make them assume you WEREN'T All-State!.

You might even make one more tape for just the primary schools recruiting you still to look at.

 

If at the end of your senior season, you're not getting a lot of interest from schools, you need to send your tape out to MANY colleges and just hope ONE of them "bites." You never know, maybe all the schools in your state don't NEED someone at your position that year or they've already got numerous commitments from people at that position...sending a tape to a school OUT-OF-STATE might get someone interested with a NEED at your position that never would've heard from you otherwise. (Of course, ONLY do this if you think you would actually GO OUT-OF-STATE to college if that opportunity presented itself).

 

** Above all, before all of this, GET YOUR GRADES IN ORDER TO AT LEAST WHERE YOU'LL BE ELIGIBLE!!!

Find out from your coach or the counseling dept. at your school or the NCAA website what is required for eligibility and GET TO WORK!

1) FRESHMAN and SOPHOMORE YEAR: make sure your GRADES in your "core classes" are as good as possible (ACTUALLY DO SOME HOMEWORK!!! STUDY AT HOME FOR TESTS!!!! ASK TEACHERS FOR HELP!!!).

These are English, Math, Science, Social Studies, Humanities, Foreign Language. That A+ you got in PE will help your overall GPA, but when looking at your college eligibility status, they'll THROW IT OUT! They ONLY look at your "academic" grades when THEY figure out your GPA.

 

2) Get you ACT (or SAT) score as HIGH as possible.

And contrary to popular belief, these tests do NOT test what you've "learned in HS" (except maybe for the MATH test and the GRAMMAR section of the English test). More than 65% of it is READING COMPREHENSION...they give you a passage and you must answer 8-10 questions based on it.

It's probably a passage about NOTHING you actually learned in school.

They're testing you to see how well AND HOW FAST you can FIND answers from new information. TIME is a factor -- and most people try to READ each passage then answer the questions -- this will KILL YOU!

Answering these questions involves mastering a SKILL -- skimming for information and NOT wasting time on any one question.

Just like a football skill, it CAN be improved. And you DON'T have to spend hundreds of dollars at a prep service.

Get one of the big, thick ACT prep books at a bookstore. Read it's "hints." Then PRACTICE the practice tests it gives you OVER and OVER and OVER (you should have a SET-TIME to practice EACH WEEK!)...and do it in TIMED CONDITIONS!

 

Start early in you Sophomore year, practice every week until you actually take it for real in your Junior year.

 

Good luck.

[strongopenyon]

"Coach J".....it looks like you have been there......done that! Good advice.

[defense1st]

The grades are so important especially for those who are trying to play at a level below Div. 1 or 1aa. The better grades you have the better financial package you can recieve.

[Hearsay]

The grades are so important especially for those who are trying to play at a level below Div. 1 or 1aa. The better grades you have the better financial package you can recieve.

 

I'm not sure I understand this. Below 1-AA is Div. II, which does not have the same minimum academic requirements. Below that is Div. III, which does not offer athletic scholarships. Grades are always important, though.

[CoachJ]

I'm not sure I understand this. Below 1-AA is Div. II, which does not have the same minimum academic requirements. Below that is Div. III, which does not offer athletic scholarships. Grades are always important, though.

 

Part of it is that many (most?) of the D-II (and go ahead and lump in the NAIA schools with the D-II's; they're similar in almost every way) and almost ALL of the D-III schools are "private" so their overall price tags are higher ($15K a year and up as opposed to a state school being around $6-8K a year and up).

 

I think the point is that FULL-Football-Scholarships are very rare at the D-II level -- you may only get 1/4 of the full cost paid for with football money. Couple that with the fact that they more often cost a lot more than a state school you'd better have some money OTHER THAN what you're given in football money to be able to afford it.

 

Additionally, at the D-III level, almost all of these schools are more academically selective than most other schools. Thus, they have an overall philosophy to use institutional funds only for ACADEMIC scholarships as opposed to athletic ones.

[new2game]

One of THREE or FOUR ways:

 

1) the kid is a phenom -- like LeBron James or Tim Couch. They play so far above everyone else their own age that they break records or seem like "men among boys" so they get media from all over converging to document "a story."

 

Sometimes, a respected alumnus of a college lives in a particular place where this phenom exists and they call the college to let them know he's there.

 

Colleges (and in the case of basketball and baseball, the pros) hear about these kids and go see them.

 

2) the kid's COACH makes highlight tapes of the kid, assembles these onto MANY tapes along with a full game or two featuring the kid, writes a letter on his behalf (including why he'd be an asset to the school beyond what's seen on the tape), and sends them to as many schools as possible to let them see the recruit with their own eyes.

 

The coach may also make direct phone calls to the college coaches to follow up on the kid, make sure they got the tape, and -- importantly -- make sure they actually LOOKED at the tape (many colleges, I've found, will just let one of their Graduate Assistants look at each tape that comes in on any kid they don't already know about and assess whether or not the tape should get passed on to a "real" assistant).

 

3) the kid may hire a RECRUITING SERVICE -- sort of analagous to AN AGENT for a HS kid. Their costs range from about $300 to over $3,000 and the services they provide ranges from simply sending out an email to a long list of colleges (might get looked at by a coach, might not) to doing the tape/phone calls thing the player's coach should be doing.

 

** If I were a kid today, I'd be VERY careful and do my homework before hiring someone. I'd ask for REFERENCES from previous athletes he's represented with similar size, stats, etc. and actually TALK to a few kids that used that service and his parents about quality of the services they received. Even if a kid didn't get the full-ride they wanted (and very, VERY few do!), if the service worked hard for the kid, they'll usually tell you so and not hold against the service the fact that the result wasn't exactly what was wanted.

 

4) If they're not a 'phenom,' they have a coach that doesn't feel like he has to go above and beyond for his players, and he can't afford a service, the kid can STILL do the work on his own.

 

a) BEFORE JUNIOR YEAR: Work his BUTT off in his off-season getting his weaknesses improved and making his strengths even better (hopefully, his school has a good comprehensive, year-round training program...if not it may be worth it to invest what money he and his family can scrape up and sign up with a training center like Velocity sports or the HIT Center -- usually, there's several of these located in the major metro areas of the state, Cincinnati, Evansville, etc.).

Hopefully you won't have to pay an outside trainer and this exists for FREE at your school by a qualified coach...either way, the program MUST be comprehensive -- it must work on SKILLS and TECHNIQUES specific to their position, it must develop SPEED, AGILITY, COORDINATION, QUICKNESS, and EXPLOSIVENESS along with STRENGTH (not enough just to go "bulk up" in the weight room doing "bodybuilder" workouts if you really want to be a good FOOTBALL player). If your high school program just does those things, I'd recommend going to a CERTIFIED SPORT and CONDITIONING SPECIALIST in addition to what you do at your school.

This may seem like a lot of serious work for a "game"...and it is! But remember, you're talking about wanting some college to INVEST up to HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS on you over a 5-year period...they're approaching it SERIOUSLY...you'd better too!

 

b) JUNIOR SEASON: have a GREAT junior season on the field. This is the KEY for getting recruited by scholarship-giving schools. If you're only good during your SENIOR year, it's almost too late! The colleges get their "top recruits" boards done in the summer after their camps and it's hard to break onto this board after it's done.

 

c) WINTER AFTER JUNIOR SEASON (might be best to WAIT until after the National Signing Date for that year's seniors so you don't get "mixed in" with them): make his own HIGHLIGHT TAPE of his 5-10 best plays from his Soph. and Jr. seasons and his best full game or 2. His school media center might have the equipment and expertise to help him with this. If not, again, it might be worth it to invest in going to a Video Editing business to make it.

Would need to get copies of all his games and take the time to pluck out his best plays. MAKE SURE THE COPIES ARE OF GOOD QUALITY!!! Try to do them DIGITALLY as opposed to just copying a VHS over and over...colleges get REALLY upset when they get a tape they can't see well.

 

d) WINTER AND SPRING OF JUNIOR YEAR: work specifically on getting ready for COMBINES (in addition to what your coach asks you to do for football training).

Get that FORTY TIME down to as absolutely FAST as you can -- and get as BIG and THICK as you can get while still getting faster. Doesn't matter if you rush for 2,000 yds a year in HS; if you're just a good, tough back who overcomes a lack of speed or size with your toughness, the colleges will NOT care! They want SIZE and/or SPEED (preferably, BOTH). And that's EVERY position.

Find out what they are and TRAIN on the SPECIFIC drills being done to measure QUICKNESS. Most use a basic "pro-shuttle-run" but some use variations. Either way, you CAN improve your time by DOING these drills...and there are "tricks" to doing them that will cut your time down (the HIT Centers and Velocity--and hopefully your own coach!-- have people that have worked to break down exactly how you can "tweak" your technique to shave tenths of seconds off your time). I'm sure there's advice on the internet too if you do a Google search for the specific name of the drill or just search "football combine drills."

 

e) SPRING JUNIOR YEAR: Get to as many COMBINES as you can so there's DOCUMENTATION other than your high school coach's word (which college coaches do NOT believe!) on how fast, tall, and heavy you are.

The NCAA may be changing the rules on these where the college coaches can't be there in person...but they'll still probably look at the times that come out of them to verify you as somebody they should really be recruiting for a scholarship or someone that should just be asked to walk-on.

 

f) SUMMER BEFORE SENIOR YEAR: GET TO AS MANY COLLEGE SUMMER CAMPS AS POSSIBLE -- especially the "top 2 or 3" schools you like that have ACTUALLY SHOWN INTEREST IN YOU (BUT!!!! it doesn't matter if Miami is your #1 school but you're a 5'9 option QB...go to the camps of the schools where you're SURE you can play and they've somehow already let you KNOW you're a recruit for them!). Ask your HS coach what he thinks your real potential is...or call one of the colleges you sent your Jr. year tape and ask them to be brutally HONEST with you about where you can possibly play.

And while at the camp(s), perform in a way that makes you STAND OUT from the others there at your position. They're only giving ONE or TWO scholarships at each position likely; if you're the FIFTH-BEST kid at your position at their camp, why would they go after you!?

Oh yeah, and be COACHABLE while at their camp (do EXACTLY what they tell you to do technique-wise; say 'yes-sir, no-sir,' etc.); if there's someone else there at your position, at you're exactly EVEN athletically, but you're coachable and the other guy's a "prima donna" to their coaches -- they'll decide they'd much rather have someone open to COACHING around for 5 years than someone that thinks their way is best (but again, that's ONLY if you're EVEN athletcially...they'll take a "prima donna" with better talent every time -- despite what they say in public!).

 

g) SENIOR YEAR: Have a GREAT senior season on the field.

 

h) AFTER ABOUT HALF-WAY THROUGH SENIOR SEASON: Get ANOTHER highlight tape done to send out as an "update" on the one you sent out just after your Junior year.

 

i) AFTER THE SEASON: be PERSISTENT. Write an update letter with any pertinent stats or accomplishments you made or any awards earned to ALL the schools that seem to have some interest in you (are at least sending letters). ** Be careful though, being "All-District" isn't all that impressive to a school -- they want ALL-STATE guys; if you point out you're "All-District" that may make them assume you WEREN'T All-State!.

You might even make one more tape for just the primary schools recruiting you still to look at.

 

If at the end of your senior season, you're not getting a lot of interest from schools, you need to send your tape out to MANY colleges and just hope ONE of them "bites." You never know, maybe all the schools in your state don't NEED someone at your position that year or they've already got numerous commitments from people at that position...sending a tape to a school OUT-OF-STATE might get someone interested with a NEED at your position that never would've heard from you otherwise. (Of course, ONLY do this if you think you would actually GO OUT-OF-STATE to college if that opportunity presented itself).

 

** Above all, before all of this, GET YOUR GRADES IN ORDER TO AT LEAST WHERE YOU'LL BE ELIGIBLE!!!

Find out from your coach or the counseling dept. at your school or the NCAA website what is required for eligibility and GET TO WORK!

1) FRESHMAN and SOPHOMORE YEAR: make sure your GRADES in your "core classes" are as good as possible (ACTUALLY DO SOME HOMEWORK!!! STUDY AT HOME FOR TESTS!!!! ASK TEACHERS FOR HELP!!!).

These are English, Math, Science, Social Studies, Humanities, Foreign Language. That A+ you got in PE will help your overall GPA, but when looking at your college eligibility status, they'll THROW IT OUT! They ONLY look at your "academic" grades when THEY figure out your GPA.

 

2) Get you ACT (or SAT) score as HIGH as possible.

And contrary to popular belief, these tests do NOT test what you've "learned in HS" (except maybe for the MATH test and the GRAMMAR section of the English test). More than 65% of it is READING COMPREHENSION...they give you a passage and you must answer 8-10 questions based on it.

It's probably a passage about NOTHING you actually learned in school.

They're testing you to see how well AND HOW FAST you can FIND answers from new information. TIME is a factor -- and most people try to READ each passage then answer the questions -- this will KILL YOU!

Answering these questions involves mastering a SKILL -- skimming for information and NOT wasting time on any one question.

Just like a football skill, it CAN be improved. And you DON'T have to spend hundreds of dollars at a prep service.

Get one of the big, thick ACT prep books at a bookstore. Read it's "hints." Then PRACTICE the practice tests it gives you OVER and OVER and OVER (you should have a SET-TIME to practice EACH WEEK!)...and do it in TIMED CONDITIONS!

 

Start early in you Sophomore year, practice every week until you actually take it for real in your Junior year.

 

Good luck.

Thankyou for all the info .

[Blitzing]

In addition to what Coach J says, don't just depend on your coach to make a highlight tape for you, if you are able to borrow the game tapes and have access to video equipment make your own highlight video. Most high schools usually offer one or more courses in media or broadcasting and will have equipment that you might be able to use to make a tape. If your parent(s) have a good video camera have them tape your games (don't rely on just one or two game tapes) with you as the focus of the taping and then use those tapes to make your highlight video. The high school coaches don't always get video tapes made in a timely manner, especially if they are making tapes for more than one player, plus we found that the team game tapes weren't the best quality and you couldn't always tell who was who in the film because of the distance and the fact that the person filming was trying to get a much of the field into the film as possible.

 

I also want to add that in the summer between your junior and senior year, check with several colleges to see if they offer a senior camp or ask your coach if he knows who will be offering senior camps, which are just for those players who will be a senior in the fall of that year College often offer these camps to get the opportunity to look at kids who might have fallen under their radar, some of the camps are run like a combine and others are just basic drills and such but the coaches are looking at the kids and making notes of ones those that they might be interesting in. Some of the schools that I know offer the senior camps are, Eastern Kentucky, Western Kentucky, Kentucky, Louisville, Cincinnati and Ohio State and they are not expensive, most are $25 to $35 for a one day camp. They do not always advertise these camps but let coaches know, will mention they on their website or will tell you if you call. AND as Coach J says be coachable and respectful at the camps, leave the earrings and jewelry at home.

 

Go to the NCAA Clearinghouse website and read the eligibility guidelines, make sure that you will meet the core courses requirements, they have added an additional class for those graduating after 2006. Register with the clearinghouse (there is a fee associated with this unless you are eligible for a fee waiver) and make sure that your high school counseler submits your transcript to the clearinghouse for a preliminary evaluation after your junior year is finished, they won't evaluate your transcript until October or November but do the evaluations in the order received, your core class gpa and ACT/SAT score must be within their guidelines, the higher core gpa that you have the lower ACT/SAT score you can obtain and vice versa, this info is in the guideline which can be printed from their website. If you are lacking in a course it is best to know before your last semester of high school so that you can try to take the class in your last semester.

 

Good luck!

[MountainThunder]

Part of it is that many (most?) of the D-II (and go ahead and lump in the NAIA schools with the D-II's; they're similar in almost every way) and almost ALL of the D-III schools are "private" so their overall price tags are higher ($15K a year and up as opposed to a state school being around $6-8K a year and up).

 

I think the point is that FULL-Football-Scholarships are very rare at the D-II level -- you may only get 1/4 of the full cost paid for with football money. Couple that with the fact that they more often cost a lot more than a state school you'd better have some money OTHER THAN what you're given in football money to be able to afford it.

 

Additionally, at the D-III level, almost all of these schools are more academically selective than most other schools. Thus, they have an overall philosophy to use institutional funds only for ACADEMIC scholarships as opposed to athletic ones.

 

D2 schools are allotted up to 45 football schollys, but you are right,except for the upper echelon D2 schools, many schools don't even use them all and divide them out in partial schollys. None of the WV D2 schools use all their scholarships due to university/college restrictions, and there are around 11 just in WV. Tusculum and Carson Newman use a higher percentage than many, but also compete at a higher level than say a Kentucky State, who is the only D2 football school left in KY as Ky Wes went NAIA for football.

 

But the emphasis for today's student athletes MUST be on their academics. If I am a college coach looking at 2 RB's of fairly similar skill/ability, you can bet that I will go after the one with better grades as (1) he has a better chance to qualify for academic aid (2) he is probably more focused in the classroom which can translate onto the football field and (3) he is more likely to be successful and eligible as a college student than the other, which means that he is more likely to be eligible to play. Ineligible players don't do a coach any good.

 

And besides, that is what you are going to college for, to further your education. Focusing on the books will help you be a better collegiate student. And let's be honest, very few players get drafted at all (just over 200+ per year out of the thousands of eligible collegiate football seniors) , and a miniscule percentage from the D2, D3 or NAIA level ever get that chance. The DB from Tusculum who was drafted last year in the first round was the rare exception as you don't see those guys at that level.

[SpeedDemon]

NCAA Clearinghouse needs to be completed as soon as possible following junior year, it must be updated as soon as possible after that. Do not wait.

 

Go to the camps of the schools you are most interested in.

 

You do not exist as a student/athlete until you have an ACT/SAT score.

 

HT/WT, Speed, Strength, ACT/SAT, Position, School/Coach, Film? These are the first several questions you will be asked.