EXCERPTS...

- If you are a senior currently competing in your sport season and you haven't been recruited by Division I schools, it is highly unlikely that you will be offered a Division I scholarship.

- the coach is almost surely recruiting more than one prospect for any one position. You should be aware that it is highly unlikely that the coach will successfully recruit each prospect that is his first choice for a position or event. In order to protect themselves, most coaches have back-up recruit lists. These lists are usually referred to as depth charts.

- ... you may be a back-up recruit, low on the depth chart and never know it. You may well experience the same kind of reception as the recruit who is #1 on the coach's depth chart. This is known as being strung along.

- The Ultimate Recruiting Seminar designed for college coaches and recruiters suggests: "For every scholarship you have, you should be recruiting four prospective student-athletes." Which means, effective recruiting requires that the recruiter/coach string along three prospects. This is the harsh reality. To ignore this reality is championship stupid.

- Many NCAA Division III institutions award financial aid to prospects because of athletic ability, but use a listed or creatively invent an award name that is for a criterion other than athletic ability. Very simply, that's the method used by NCAA Division III institutions that decide to circumvent Rule 15.4.2 making financial aid available to students with athletic ability.

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