College Football Recruiting Handbook: A Parent and Prep's Guide to Earning a College Football Scholarship - Softcover

Hornback, Dr. Joseph E.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1517146798 ISBN 13: 9781517146795

Verlag: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2015

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"You need a playbook to win the recruiting process, and there is no better resource than this book." - Jeremy Crabtree, ESPN Senior Writer

Playing college football on full scholarship is a once in a lifetime opportunity. Of course, being recruited as a high school student is a big challenge for both parents and student-athletes. This book will give you an advantage as you pursue that football scholarship. You'll get inside tips on how to get recruited from someone who earned himself a college football scholarship and has gone on to help countless other high school athletes do the same.

In this book you'll learn everything you need to know about how to earn a college football scholarship:

The Spring Evaluation Period – What college football coaches are looking for and what you should do to impress them.

Recruiting Mail – What each letter really means and how you should respond to put the odds of a earning a football scholarship in your favor.

Phone Calls – The rules about how coaches and athletes can interact by phone and the calling methods you can use to help secure a football scholarship from the school you want to go to.

Unofficial Visits – How to get invited for a campus visit and how you can impress the coaches once you're there.

Summer Camps – Why you should or should not go to a college's summer football camp and what it will do for your scholarship chances.

Official Visits – How to make sure you get invited and what you should do to make sure you can you're offered a scholarship once you get there.

The Clearinghouse – How the NCAA determines initial football eligibility and what you need to do to ensure you can accept a football scholarship.

Scholarship Offers – What happens when a coach offers you a scholarship and how you can make sure the offer stays on the table while you consider your options.

Commitments – A breakdown of the important differences between a verbal commitment and the National Letter of Intent you sign in February.
"Joe Hornback takes you through the ins and outs of recruiting like nobody else can, because he’s been immersed in the process for more than 20 years as a recruit himself, as a player hosting prospects on official visits, as a successful high school coach that had a number of his players go through the process and most recently as an administrator focused on ensuring recruits were academically ready for the next level.” Jeremy Crabtree, ESPN Senior Writer.

Biografía del autor

Joe Hornback was an Academic All-Big Eight player at the University of Kansas, a two time high school all-state offensive lineman, and a member of the Dowling Catholic Athletic Hall of Fame. He has experience the recruiting process from all sides; as an athlete, player-host, high school coach, and high school principal. Dr. Hornback has been quoted by the Sporting News and multiple online recruiting services as an expert on the recruiting process. In addition, he has been the featured speaker for Rivals.com and Yahoo! Junior Days, speaking to thousands of potential D-I athletes all over the country. He is currently an adjunct professor at the University of Kansas and a high school principal in Kansas City, where he resides with his wife Melissa and four children.

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• Verlag: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1517146798
• ISBN 13: 9781517146795
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 142