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The 'Scoop' on College Recruiting

What Every Parent Should Know About the Game of Recruiting!

By Aaron S. Lee

"The Scoop on College Recruiting: What Every Parent Should Know About the Game of Recruiting!" is a book - long overdue - that will give parents of prospective college recruits an insight as never before in what needs to be done to get their child athlete recruited by a major college. . The process, whether is be football, basketball, volleyball, etc., is virtually the same.

Contrary to popular belief, college recruiting is a business. When colleges succeed in recruiting the best athletes for their school, they increase the profit the school takes in each year. If a school finishes as national champion in a given sport or among the top programs each year, it reaps the benefits of recruiting. Alumni will give more money, media will pay more attention, fans will purchase more school-related products, new students will increase enrollment, etc. - the list goes on.

What parents need to know and understand is that "Getting their athlete recruited" is a business. Something college recruiters would rather keep them ignorant of. "The Scoop on College Recruiting"

According to the National Federation of High Schools, the greatest participation in sports is football, with 1,023,142 boys participating at the high school level. There are approximately 254,000 seniors who play high school football but there are only 5,042 athletic scholarships awarded at the NCAA's highest level - Division I-A. The odds are 50:1 against getting a scholarship.

In Division I-AA, there are 4,356 football scholarships awarded each year. Plus there is Division II, Division III, NAIA and junior college. Each has a different process and set of rules in regards to awarding athletic scholarships, but can be a viable option if they don’t make the major college cut.

One of the key selling points to "The Scoop on College Recruiting" is that the industry shows only about five percent of the athletes that play sports have the talent to play at the next level. However, many parents still hold to the possiblity that maybe their son or daughter can garner an athletic scholarship and become the exception.

Multiply these above figures by the student athletes vying for sports scholarships across the board each year and the "The Scoop on College Recruiting" will be guaranteed success.

And according to Emfinger, parents need to begin the educational process of recruiting with their children in junior high school. Now, we just multiplied our potential buying demographic by a factor of six.

Book Outline

The Scoop on College Recruiting

Foreword: By a nationally known collegiate coach

Chapter One: The War Stories

Brief stories and quotes from athlete’s parents from the past 25 years that fought the battles of getting their child recruited that succeeded or failed.

Chapter Two: Get Real!

Parents need to take a real look at little Tommy or Suzy and determine if they have the talent to play at the next level. Determine if they can play at the NCAA Division I level - or at any college level - and decide which one is best.

Chapter Three: When do I start? Where do I start? How do I start?

Shares his thoughts on the most essential part of the recruiting process that makes it successful.

Chapter Three: The Tools of the Trade

Provides parents with the proper tools such as keeping records, compiling videos, logging scouting reports, and keeping track of stats, playing time, etc.

Chapter Four: Academics

Colleges can’t afford to waste time or scholarships on a talented athlete that is poor academically.

Chapter Five: It's too late, now what?

When to realize it’s too late to be recruited by a major college, and how to react by targeting smaller colleges and jucos.

Chapter Six: Over the Long Haul

Shows parents what to expect from the time they start working on getting their son or daughter recruited until signing date.

Chapter Seven: We're Getting Close

How to realize you’re close to achieving your goal. What to look for to know when a college really wants your child.

Chapter Eight: The Choice!

The Offers. What parents need to know to help their child make the right choice.

Chapter Nine: Last minute decisions!

The small details that can make or break getting a scholarship.

Chapter Ten: Signed, Sealed and Delivered ...

What to do from the time they child makes a verbal commitment 'til signing day.

Chapter Eleven: The Next Level

Briefly lays out what to do once athletes start playing for a college and the possibilities of playing professional sports.

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Author Bio

Aaron S. Lee

South Florida (Palm Beach) sports writer, author and former managing editor for three national sports magazines ...

Member of the Football Writer's Association of America, Pro Football Writers Association, Arena Football Writers Association, Louisiana Sports Writers Association, Florida Sports Writers Association, Texas Sports Writers Association, Independence Bowl Foundation, Sugar Bowl Quarterback Club, Liberty Bowl Association and former member of the Associated Press Sports Editors ...

Freelancer, beat writer and sports editor during the past eight years for papers in Louisiana (Times Picayune and Minden Press Herald), Texas (Marshall News Messenger and Longview News Journal) and Wyoming (Torrington Telegram and Lingle Guide), I have also served as a staff writer for the Palm Beach Post and freelancer for Football Digest ...

Routinely guest on several regional and national radio and television sports talk programs ... Former managing editor for a national football-coaching magazine (American Football Monthly) and helped launch two national basketball-coaching magazines (American Basketball Quarterly: Men's & Women's Editions) ...

Author of two books ("Quotable Eddie Robinson" and "Quotable Don Shula"), with three upcoming including a book with Sammy Hagar of Van Halen, and two others with two major college football coaches.