Someday soon I’m going to corner Doyle and make him show me how to plot a scattergraph (or is it scattergram?) on his brother’s programmable calculator. I would love to see the trends spelled out as to where soccer players go to play college soccer. If you kick out the obvious, like community colleges tend [...]
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” . . . but drives to campus in a better car than the coach.”
Here’s part II of the funny – harsh – revealing look at college recruiting from the coach’s perspective. Keep in mind that these are junior college* coaches, in case some of the comments seem irrelevant. Maybe it’s a good thing that I only drove Holmes in our plain ole car (rather than the shiny red [...]
Contacting College Coaches? Read This First
Catching the interest of college coaches should be so simple. However, from the coaches’ point of view, there is a lot that can screw up a prospect’s prospects. Here is part I of a two-parter written by a couple of longtime Junior College Coaches–very successful coaches, I might add. I laughed out loud at some [...]
Stranger Things Have Happened
If you haven’t seen this yet, prepare to be amazed. Freshman Ryan Rosenbaum, a defender at Southern Methodist University scores on his very first shot on goal in college soccer. Reactions in the Watson household: 17-year-old: That was an accident. 13-year-old: Why didn’t the keeper get it? What say YOUR kids?
College Summer Camps: Pros and Con$
College soccer camp brochures are arriving fast and furious at the Watson household these days. I really think that marketing of these camps may be the salvation of the United States Postal Service! In the middle school years, teammates parents of teammates of Sherlock and Holmes bragged about how hard their kids worked at Ralph [...]