{"id":2190,"date":"2012-02-22T10:21:22","date_gmt":"2012-02-22T15:21:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gridironstuds.com\/blog\/?p=2190"},"modified":"2018-05-29T19:44:26","modified_gmt":"2018-05-30T00:44:26","slug":"when-it-comes-to-recruiting-like-the-rock-says-know-your-role","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gridironstuds.com\/blog\/when-it-comes-to-recruiting-like-the-rock-says-know-your-role\/","title":{"rendered":"When It Comes to Recruiting: Like the Rock Says “Know Your Role”"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"By: Chad Wilson<\/a>\u00a0– Editor – GridironStuds Blog<\/strong>
\n Follow us on Twitter: @Gridironstuds<\/strong><\/p>\n

One of the most important things that recruits can do for themselves in the recruiting process is understand what level they are on. \u00a0This is one of the hardest things for a recruit to do. \u00a0It involves being honest with yourself. \u00a0It also involves parents being honest about their child’s talent level. \u00a0I am not going to bore you with the mathematics of available scholarships vs. those wanting them but I will make this general statement, \u00a0there are well over 10 times the amount of prospects wanting to go division I vs. those who will actually achieve that.<\/p>\n

Recruits dream of playing on television or in a New Year’s Day Bowl game. \u00a0I am not one to crush a youth’s dream but the reality is that at some point you have to get real and if you wait till after you senior season to come to that point, \u00a0you put yourself in a tough position. \u00a0One of the biggest mistakes made by potential recruits is shunning interest from smaller schools or failing to use resources that will connect them with smaller schools because they feel like “they are going D-I”. \u00a0 There are few seniors each season that can say that they are a slam dunk in terms of going division-I. \u00a0I recently attended a last chance senior combine in which I watched a prospect that was all over the recruiting websites as a sophomore and junior. \u00a0In the end, \u00a0he was like many others out there. \u00a0He was just looking for a place, \u00a0any place, \u00a0to continue playing football.<\/p>\n

Unless you are a four or five star who is receiving hand written notes and phone calls from BCS and other division-I schools you better explore your insurance policy. \u00a0That insurance policy is connecting with smaller Division-I, division I-AA and division II schools. \u00a0What is also important is that the potential recruit make an honest assessment of themselves and\/or have one done for them. \u00a0Find out how it is that you are viewed by college scouts. \u00a0For some, \u00a0it may be obvious. \u00a0If you are a 5’9″ – 5’11” quarterback, \u00a0getting a division-I offer is going to be an uphill battle. \u00a0While you are fighting that uphill battle do not pass on connecting with the smaller schools BEFORE your senior season.<\/p>\n

College football recruiting is very much a game of numbers. \u00a0Schools recruit height, weight and speed. \u00a0If you don’t fit into the stereo-typical numbers that are signed to a scholarship by the big schools, \u00a0protect yourself by getting interest from the smaller schools before the mad rush at the end of your senior season. \u00a0Other prospects may be close to those measurables but may be lacking something. \u00a0Find out what you may be missing before you are left holding the bag at the end scrambling desperately for a scholarship from a school in the corner of the country that you never ever heard of.<\/p>\n

Don’t be misled by a letter or two from the big schools. \u00a0When they begin recruiting a class, \u00a0they cast a wide net. \u00a0They are certainly not going to make offers to all of the players they send letters to. \u00a0They are just covering the bases by getting a letter out to anyone who could possibly be a prospect. \u00a0As the year progresses, \u00a0they will turn up the heat on the players they are more interested in recruiting. \u00a0By turning up the heat I mean they will send hand written letters and make phone calls. \u00a0Just because those two things are happening, \u00a0it does not mean that the school will eventually extend an offer. \u00a0The school may indeed make a scholarship offer at some point but even then, \u00a0that is not etched in stone. \u00a0Some schools will make what has been termed a “non-commitable” offer. \u00a0This means that they are offering you a scholarship but it depends on what happens with another recruit they are pursuing. \u00a0So, \u00a0as you can see, \u00a0there are a number of stages. \u00a0If you have been in the “receiving letters” stages for quite some time or not even in that stage, protect yourself and turn your attention to some schools that will return the attention to you. \u00a0 If your skills, or your value as a recruit improves and the bigger schools take more interest, \u00a0there would have been no harm in having reached out to smaller schools. \u00a0Always have a plan b.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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