The Best Thing the NCAA Ever Did, And How You Can Leverage it. PART 1

Maybe the "only" thing they ever did well.

Its a rare sight for the NCAA to be complimented on this newsletter but when they finally make a good decision we gotta throw them a bone.

After about a decade of forcing grown adult coaches to give sales pitches to 8th graders, the NCAA finally figured it out and realized they did in fact have **ALL** of the power to fix this issue.

And thankfully, they did just that.

They changed the recruiting calendar to stop in person visits and communication of all kinds between coaches and recruits until June 15th after their sophomore year. And no coach first communication or on campus visits until August 1st right before their junior year.

Finally, something that makes sense.

For those that didn’t have the pleasure of getting exposed to the old ways of recruiting, it was filled with stories of 8th graders being offered and kids committing to major universities and accepting scholarships before they ever played a high-school baseball game.

13 year old’s, being given sales pitches by 50 year old’s who have no other choice but to recruit as early as they can, otherwise the other competitors will pass them up.

Unfortunately, the best players at 13-14 are usually just the ones who hit puberty the earliest, and often times they never make it to their desired college because the schools drop them during their senior year due to “lack of progress”.

Thankfully, these horrid situations are mostly non existent now that the NCAA fixed it recruiting calendar for the better.

So, in this new reality of college baseball recruiting, what should be done for the athletes? It is much simpler.

You no longer even need to worry about exposure until nearly your junior year, which is wonderful to be able to worry about developing yourself and getting better to impress coaches when your time comes.

Here is a tweet from an industry expert:

https://twitter.com/TreadAthletics/status/1718984934491083260

“HS pitchers don't generally fail to get recruited because of a lack of eyeballs, 95% of it is that they aren't good enough.

When we post an Iphone video of a kid at 90+ there are dozens of schools reaching out within a day.

If resources are limited, use the $ on development.”

This is the best advice I can come up with, when I wasn’t performing well in HS, I could go anywhere and people would pass me over for my more talented friends and teammates.

When I was throwing 90 as a 16 year old, Power 5 coaches would fly across the country to see me throw a bullpen on a random Wednesday.

And offer me directly after.

Or DM me on Twitter to offer me a scholarship over the phone (the bullpen was to a random net, not even a catcher).

You don’t need to spend endless amounts of $ on recruiting camps and showcases.

You need to be good, really good.

Which is hard, and happens for everyone at different times.

PART 2 goes into more detail about what we think you should do, where you should be at what times and how to get yourself and your kids there.

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