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Football Scholarships – 5 Reasons Why Athletes Fail in College
College football players only graduate at an average rate of 60% in the NCAA. There are many reasons for this but often they can be prevented in the high school recruiting process. The personal assessment that a high school athlete should do when aiming for a football scholarship needs to be done with care and attention. This can make the college scholarship search more successful towards signing a scholarship and later graduating from that college.
Here are the Top 5 reasons why athletes fail in college:
- Choosing a college for the wrong reasons. When you visit a school on a recruiting trip, it is set up as a sales trip from the coach’s perspective. When you arrive in the fall you often find a football program and campus that feels much different than the “hyped” up one you saw on your visit.
- Not matching your academic goals. You must match the college that you will be playing at with your academic goals in mind. Will you be able to succeed academically there? Even though you got in, are strong enough of a student? Do they have the major you really want or are you settling because of a scholarship?
- Not getting along with the coach. You must choose the program and school, never the coaching staff. There is a good chance statistically that if you stay all four to five years, you will see a coaching change at the head coach level and multiple assistant coach changes. The coach that also recruited you is the “salesman” and not the true coach that person is at practice and during games.
- Choosing the wrong athletic level of competition. Even if the college gave you a scholarship, are you good enough to play there? Will you have to sit on the bench and be a practice player for a few years before you get a realistic chance to start? Or could you have accepted a scholarship from a smaller division and played immediately?
- Financial Aid changes. Coaches can pull athletic scholarships no matter what you hear to the contrary. Even if you only have a 50% or are a walk-on, can you afford to keep paying to play without having to get a job while you try to compete for a larger scholarship?
Preventing athletic failure in college starts with your high school recruiting. By doing a personal assessment of your recruiting goals and wishes you can better match colleges that fit an athletic profile that will better guarantee success.
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The Number of Football Scholarships – How to Get Your Spot on a College Roster
Many high school football players who are looking to play at the next level don’t realize how competitive the recruiting process is. The number of football scholarships are limited each year, but the opportunities are out there for players who are willing to take control of their own recruitment.
The number of football scholarships at each level are:
- At the NCAA Division 1A level, 85 scholarships are available
- At the NCAA Division 1AA level, 63 scholarships are available
- At the NCAA Division II level, 36 scholarships are available
- At the NAIA Division I and II level, 24 scholarships are available
- At the NCAA Division III level, no scholarships are available, but financial aid is available
- At the junior college level, grant-in-aids are available
Football has more scholarships available than any other sport, but the competition is fierce for these roster spots. For every scholarship spot available, there are hundreds if not thousands of prospects out there just hoping to get their chance to play.
A number of football scholarships are taken up each year by the blue chip or elite level players. These football players have been recruited since their Pop Warner days it seems and recruitment for them is a pretty easy process. The most difficult part of the recruiting process for them is deciding which scholarship offer to take.
For most high school football players, the recruitment process is much more difficult and frustrating. They have to scratch and claw their way into getting some attention from college coaches. This happens because they are flying under the radar of college coaches. It happens because they are at a small school, playing on a bad team, or simply just playing in an area not known to produce college football players.
However, a number of football scholarships will end up going to some of these “under the radar” players because they take control of their own recruitment and market and promote themselves to college coaches. By simply making contact with coaches, you can make your football dreams a reality if you have the talent, size, skills and athleticism to play at some level of college football.
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