Category Archives: Recruiting

Is There Any Logic to In-State Recruiting?

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 [...]

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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 [...]

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