Over the many years I have been a college recruiter, I have had thousands of conversations with many parents. In this article, I want to share with you some of the things that parents have asked me and just some of their actions. Keep in mind that parents want only the best for their kids.Every parent wants their son or daughter to receive a scholarship to play college sports. Parents, I feel more than anything, want information about the college recruiting process and how to make the process work for them.A parent told me once that a college program was having tryouts and that the college wanted their son to come and try out for the team. I said to her college programs don't have tryouts and she said they are recruiting her son and wanted him to come in for a try out. I said that if they are recruiting your son then he should not have to try out for anything. This parent felt they had to go to this tryout. College programs don't have tryouts. They may bring players in for a workout, so I thought the parent more than likely had misunderstood.Here's another question a parent said to me: "My son is only being recruited by D-3 schools. What does that mean?" Many parents have talented athletes in the family but are only being contacted by D-3 programs. To me that says that you're only a D-3 player and maybe you're not good enough to play at a higher level. A lot of parents and students all feel that they are much better than some of the college programs that are recruiting them. Sad, sometimes that most parents don't want to hear that about their kid. They all feel that their kid should be looked at by more college programs.I had a parent on the phone and she was telling me that they wanted to wait and see what was going to happen for their son at the end of the season. Now keep in mind that this young man was a senior and it was football season. I asked the parent why they waited so long to start the college recruiting process. Her answer was that they wanted to see what schools would come to see him play. I asked her how do these schools know about your son. She said, they (the college coaches) know and that they have ways of finding out about players. I asked her if she had a DVD made and her answer was yes and they mailed it out to 30 schools, I then asked if she's heard back from these schools and she said they did get some letters. I then asked from what schools and she said the list was mostly D-3 programs.In this parent's mind, she felt that she had it all under control. When in reality she was in a big time mess. She did not understand the process like most parents of high school student athletes. Her son ended up at a D-3 football program, no scholarship and having to pay for college out of her ass! Most D-3 football programs have 120 to 140 players on a team. It's a business for most of these programs--how many bodies can we get, how many paying students can we get into our college, etc.Parents, if you have a student athlete in the family start the college recruiting process right now. Don't wait for the coach, don't wait for the summer, and don't wait for grades to come in. Don't wait and waste valuable time because in the long run of this process you are going to need every minute. If your son/daughter is in high school at any level of talent, at whatever grade they're in begin the recruiting process now. Use the information from Woods Recruiting to help guide you in this process.We are getting letters. How many times have I heard that one?! Every parent of a high school student athlete will, at some point, receive a letter. To me and, in my opinion, letters have little value. The reason I say that is because everyone gets letters. Parents will tell you that their son or daughter is being recruited because they have gotten letters from college coaches. Letters are just the first step in the long recruiting process. Letters are letting student athletes know that we know who you are and will keep an eye on you. But the college programs are saying that same thing to hundreds of other high school student athletes that they have an interest in as well.Getting a questionnaire from college programs, in my opinion, has more value than just some form letters from a college program. Getting a phone call from a college coach has the highest value. When this happens, the college programs are serious about you and have evaluated the student athlete closely. A phone call can bring a college visit to that school's campus or that coach could come for a home visit. Keep the list of what is real and what is not when you're being recruited.Never leave it up to 2 or 3 college programs. If you do, you are setting yourself up for failure. Most parents and student athletes go with the college programs that they know, so if it's a big-name college program, most athletes are going to want those college programs. When it comes to recruiting you should always open it up to as many college programs as you can find. Even look at the smaller programs.As a college recruiter I use to make 20 to 30 phones calls per day, talking to parents about the college recruiting process. Most parents did know how the process work or what they should be doing. In my role, my job was to help them with this process but many parents wanted to do their own thing and not take the advice of a professional. However, I felt that most parents wanted someone to tell them what they should be doing; they wanted to hear what I had to say. 共2页: 上一页 1 [2] 下一页