radness
Possibilities & Opportunities!
- Dec 13, 2019
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Absolutely great point about NOT relying on another person to do their due diligence for each player as an individual whether it's a team coach or an organizational HC. I have seen that failure year upon year where even at the top teams of organizations do not promote each player equally.RAD, that is an excellent navigation of a complicated situation.
It seems like it would be obvious- but if your student has an inkling that a college coach is interested in her and she is interested in that school, apply and get accepted.
Thanks to an org head and his team coach playing games, we didn’t find out that a p5 coach was interested in our player until very late in the game. Dd missed out on money because of it. We should have applied and got early accepted even though we thought the college coach wasn’t interested. Huge mistake on our part.
You have to be extremely careful with org heads. They are middle men who are making side deals and may not have your kids best interest at heart. They have experience playing a game that you have never played or have played very little. Ymmv.
About the above: another parent of a d1 psa warned me early on “the worst thing that can happen is that (insert name of org head) finds out that a school is interested in your kid. He will go to the college coach and say ‘you like Player A? If so, you will REALLY like Player B’.”
What was his motivation? No idea. Seems like it’s really bad business to me.
Generally in most situations those people cannot speak directly for all the important topics that an athlete knows they are looking for AND college coaches generally know that the important conversations come with contacting the athlete themselves.
*** Always best for the athlete to speak for themselves!!!
REALITY IS ~ 99% of recruitment is all about what the athlete does themself.
Athletically
Academically and
Connecting with colleges.
I have an example of an outstanding Ivy League Division 1 candidate. She went briefly to try out for an organization who's been established for many years in the area. But the head coach of the organization has a big ego problem. And tends to pick on certain players horrendously as if he has some authority over there livelihood and Future. After one game playing for this person. It was obvious bad situation. The berating of that head coach telling that player she was doing things wrong, pulling her showcasing playing time, while she was so impressive as an athlete on the field stood out like a sore thumb. The coach was a sore thumb.
As a result the player went to another organization in the area. Of which was very easy for her to change the team name on her recruitment profile. And stay in connection with the college's she is intending to go to. Plus keep those colleges in the loop of her new schedule.
The head coach of this organization allowed the player to do as she has been trained. The outcome this summer so far has been multiple multiple connections by very prestigious colleges and coaches.
The team head coach is not the person who contacted the colleges to say hey I have this player now. The player had contacted the colleges and they came to watch her. As a result of the athlete colleges came to watch. They would have come to watch either team. But actually getting showcase playing time was the result of following phone calls from colleges.
Know that you can work your individual plan and path and make connections.
Do this for yourself and you will reap your own reward! ?
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