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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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College Football Scholarships – Start the Search Now!
The hunt for college football scholarships really picks up come September. College football coaches may begin calling you once per week if you are a Senior and may being sending your recruiting materials if you are a Junior starting September 1st. You on the other hand may call coaches as much as you want.
Many of you will begin to receive letters and phone calls from coaches starting next month. Does this mean you are being recruited for a college football scholarship? Yes and No. The mailing of letters and initial phone calls is just the start to a long exhaustive recruiting season by football coaches. Colleges will mail our thousands of letters and questionnaires to players of every caliber. We have heard of players receiving dozens of letters, but not so much as a phone call after that.
Coaches and especially the Graduate Assistant coaches (each team has two) as tasked with calling up to 100 to 200 players a day. From the coaches perspective they want to start with as large of a recruiting base as possible by contacting literally thousands of players. If you make the inital screening you will be asked to send in a tape for review. Rest assured, all tapes are screened. Coaches can make a decision to see more, pass on you, or place you in a potential pile within minutes.
We have a detailed strategy in our book how to deal with these letters and phone calls to help navigate the recruiting game. It can be hard to tell who is actually interested in you and who is merely making contact to build a base. During the month of August you should be making your initial recruiting list of 50 to 100 schools that match your academic and athletic profile. Begin making contact with coaches in September and mailing out your recruiting packets. The real rush of college football recruiting starts in late October. It is best to make contact early to beat out the thousands of other high school players who want the same college football scholarship.
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Football Academics – Important Before and After You Sign the Scholarship
Many high school football players are just not aware of how important their football academics are. Your academic performance is important before and after you sign the scholarship offer. If you can’t stay eligible to play, your ability on the football field just doesn’t matter.
There is an ugly rumor that persists in the football recruiting and scholarship process. The rumor is that your football academics really don’t matter if you are good enough to play at the college level. Especially if you are a blue chip or elite level player.
Don’t believe this rumor. Academics are a crucial part of playing college football before and after your are recruited. Many players who believed this ugly rumor was true, are now watching football from the sidelines or on television!
Before You Are Recruited:
Football coaches want players who can stay academically eligible to play. Sure, they want the best talent they can get, but they also realize talent does not matter if the kid can’t stay on the field due to being ineligible. Also, coaches usually recruit five or more players for each roster spot they have. If the talent levels are pretty close, the coach will usually give the scholarship offer to the kid who has the best high school GPA. It rewards the kid for hard work in the classroom, and it helps the coach to know he has signed a player who will stay eligible to play.
After You Sign The Scholarship:
Your football academics remain vitally important after you sign the scholarship and you are on the roster. In order to stay eligible to play, you must maintain a high enough GPA to remain active on the team. If you don’t do this, the coach has no choice to make you ineligible. If he doesn’t and the program gets caught by the NCAA or NAIA, all games won will usually have to be forfeited.
If you want to be recruited, maintaining your football academics is a must. Also, you should make contact with college coaches and let them know about your performance on the field and in the classroom. All coaches are looking for athletes who can perform on the field as well as excel in the classroom.
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