Question: Why should I enroll with NSR? My coach will help me get recruited.

Let's assume you are a good athlete with the ability to compete at the college level. Further, let's say your coach is very high on you and your abilities. Does this mean you are going to automatically be recruited? No, it does not. Certainly, a few coaches who through years of experience and hard work have made the type of connections necessary to open doors for their players, but those coaches are exceptional and have a list of college players to prove their effectiveness. Others, though, may want to help, but they usually do not have the expertise, time or funds to make an effectual promo program get results for you.

There are many other players in your graduating class across the country and in your region with your same size and speed as well as statistics and grades wanting one of the few scholarships available. How you stand out among the throngs of prospects (nearly 400,00 each year for 4,000 roster spots) makes all the difference in the world.

Being a good athlete is not enough. Recruiting is very competitive, and by no means do all good players receive offers. You must have a well-organized plan to promote your abilities if you want to ensure maximum recruiting opportunities. This is not your high school, travel or club coach's job and you should not expect him or her to be solely responsible for getting you a scholarship. Your coach's job is to develop your abilities and communicate with college coaches regarding your skills, work ethic, character and potential when, and if, a college coach becomes interested in you. Except for a handful area colleges, most of your coaches have very few or no college contacts, nor do they have the time or money to launch a comprehensive recruiting campaign for you. Making a few calls and sending a half dozen letters will not usually get the job done.

If you really want to participate in college athletics, today's recruiting game and process requires that you grab the competitive advantage over others by finding effective ways to get your profile in the hands of college coaches. As the nation's most reliable promotional company for high school student-athletes, NSR will give you a definite recruiting advantage over the other players you will be competing with for roster spots and scholarships.

NSR is recognized as the top promotional organization in America in college recruiting. We leave no stone unturned in our efforts to ensure your success.

The chance to be recruited comes along only once in your lifetime. Take control of your future now.

Question: Why will enrolling with NSR give me a big advantage?

Answer: National Scouting Report is the top professional recruiting organization in the world. We are the oldest and largest and carry more influence than anyone else. How did we build this reputation over the past twenty years? We built it by only accepting top-quality athletes and, most importantly, by giving colleges the kind of information and recommendations they want and need. Recruiting is a continuous process of evaluations. A "one shot" recommendation offered by other scouting services and even by most coaches does you little or no good. It won't get you recruited. It will just give you false hopes and could ruin your chance for participating in college athletics. Initially, NSR will identify you to every college in the country offering your sport by sending them a professionally designed personal resume. This is only the first of many steps that we will take to make sure you are promoted properly. Our ongoing promotions keeps every college constantly updated on such things as your game evaluations, improvements or progress, academics, statistics, high school coach comments and evaluations, honors, camp attendance etc. Most importantly, we will furnish the colleges with your full-length, professionally edited, first class videotape. Your video may include complete game footage, skills demonstration, personal interview, and your coach's personal recommendation of you. These are the things college coaches want, and these are the things that will get you recruited. What they don't want is a ridiculous two-minute Internet video clip or junk mail from people or scouting companies they do not know or use. And, of course, they definitely do not want information from upstart Internet companies who have no control over the quality of athletes who just sign up and submit any kind of bogus information they want. Consider all these things, and then try to look at it through the eyes of a college coach. In the competitive recruiting wars, who do you think has the better chance of being recruited and getting offers: someone who signs on with some Internet or one-time resume scouting service, or someone who enrolls with National Scouting Report, a company well respected by all colleges and a company that provides the most extensive scouting services in the world?

Question: What do college coaches think about NSR?

Answer: College coaches have been depending on NSR to identify, evaluate and recruit prospects for the past 25 years. Coaches know that we do not accept just anyone into our program. They also know that we are the only scouting organization that requires these high standards. We only accept prospects that have been recommended and evaluated properly. We give college coaches credible information and furnish thorough scouting reports on only legitimate prospects that can play at the college level. As a result, we have earned the trust and confidence of coaches as evidenced by the more than 1000 letters received from them touting our programs, prospects and services. No other scouting company in existence has these high standards, and no other scouting organization comes close to matching the influence or credibility NSR has with colleges.

Question: I have been told that if I am good enough, college coaches will find me and I will not need more exposure. Is that true?

Answer: This is a very misleading and outdated statement that will put you in danger of getting overlooked and left with empty dreams. If some colleges know who you are, does that mean you will automatically be recruited by them and offered scholarships? Did college coaches find out about all the good players that graduated from your school last year? Did all they receive scholarship offers?

Do not allow this "old fashioned" thinking influence you into believing recruiting is that simple. It is not.

Colleges know about a lot of people just like you, but only a few will be recruited and eventually get offers. Just getting an offer should not be your goal. You should want to have choices .

Question: When do colleges start evaluating prospects?

Answer: Different colleges start their recruiting process at different times. As a general rule, college coaches want to identify prospects and get scouting information on them as soon as possible. Division I schools, in particular, like to identify and follow prospects for several years, if possible. Waiting until your senior year to attract college attention is a big mistake. It may not be too late for some colleges, but it certainly limits your chances, and it will definitely limit your choices.

Question: I understand that National Scouting Report provides each of their “Elite” prospects with a personally designed Website. Is this true? If so, what is the importance of having a personal Website in regard to recruiting?

Answer : Yes, NSR provides each client-prospect with a personalized Web page. This is probably the most powerful tool we have ever developed for recruiting. We employ our own webmasters and host our own site as well as the sites for our prospects. Moreover, we own an extensive, state-of-the-art computer system that allows us to stay on the cutting edge of technology and provide the types of services to our clients and colleges that both require to grasp and maintain a competitive advantage. When you enroll with NSR, your site will be professionally designed to your specifications. It can include such things as an extensive personal profile page, pictures, scanned newspaper articles, references, continuous game reports, evaluations, statistics, personal comments or messages, full-length videos, transcripts, interviews and personal items. The communications possibilities between you and colleges could not be better served. And, we will make continuous updates to your site at no charge. Let your imagination explore the possibilities by having your own NSR Website. It's all inclusive in your ELITE Program. It is the ultimate service tool for those special prospects who qualify.

Question: Is it important to have a personal video?

Answer: In fact, it is essential in most cases. College coaches will not offer you a scholarship because someone recommended you or because they heard some good things about you. Because coaches are unable to see most prospects in person, they depend on videotape as a key evaluation tool. Most coaches will not spend money from their tight budgets to see a prospect perform in person without first having completed a comprehensive assessment on tape. If they can get a video from the high school coach it is often poor quality and may not show the prospect's best qualities.

NSR puts tremendous emphasis on videotape produced for each prospect enrolled in its programs. We have professional editing facilities which allow us to produce a finished product that gives college coaches an accurate look at the prospect's abilities. We also make sure that every college coach in the country has the opportunity to view your personal video. This is a crucial part of the recruiting process and it is just another service provided by NSR that is not offered by any other scouting service.

Question: Why should I enroll with NSR rather than an Internet-based scouting service?

Answer: These types of ineffective services are here today and gone tomorrow. Since most are start-up companies with no experience or credibility with college coaches, there is very little, if anything, they can actually do for you. Regretfully, most of these services will sign up anyone who can pay the fee for their program, regardless of ability. If you are seriously considering one of these companies, ask the representative to produce a list of prospects who have received scholarship offers as a result of enrolling with his or her company. Also, ask the person to provide you with letters from college coaches (on the college's letterhead) that speak complimentary of the service. Reputable companies will provide you with this information without hesitation. If this is impossible, then so are your chances of being helped by this company.

Question: Tell me about some other prospects who went through the NSR program and how they feel about it.

Answer: We have had thousands of prospects go through our complete scouting program and many have become very successful because of the education they received at least partially through our efforts. Some of our former clients have made it to the highest level of business and professional success. We cannot name them all but you can access a few of our recent testimonials on our Web site.

Here's the important thing to remember: NSR does not get you a scholarship. If we promised you a scholarship, we would be agents and that would be against recruiting rules of the NCAA, NAIA and the NJCAA, the most powerful governing bodies in college athletics. In the end, you will receive a scholarship offer because of your athletic and academic accomplishments and abilities. But, we do something at NSR that in most cases neither you, your parents nor your coaches can do – that is, to make your profile available to every college coach in your sport in America, each month for as long as you are in high school, provide coaches with continuous updates on your stats, grades and accomplishments, and maintain a Web site that attracts in excess of 2.5 million hits per month! At NSR we perform the highly specialized service of promoting you in the most effective ways possible. However, for our work to produce results, you must participate with us by responding in a timely manner to colleges that contact you, tour campuses as soon and as often as possible and maintaining an open and continuing line of communications with the college coaches who have reached out to you as a result of our efforts.

Question: What is the success rate of NSR?

Answer: NSR promotes each enrolled athlete to every college in the country offering the athlete's sport. We do not pick and choose colleges to cut costs, or short change you, like some other scouting services. We do not leave anyone out. We let the college coaches decide who can and who cannot play for them, and who they will pursue in the recruiting process. Consequently 100% of our prospects who submit their information to us in a timely manner receive widespread exposure and recognition. It is difficult to know exactly the percentage of our prospects ultimately get scholarship offers. In some sports, it is almost 100%, but other sports it may be less. Getting an offer depends on many things such your talent level, your academic achievements, your scouting reports and evaluations, your personal videotape and to what degree you manage and respond to the coaches who send you questionnaires and contact you directly. In every case, your recruiting opportunities are increased many times by the fact that you are promoted by NSR.

Question: I have heard that colleges have their own recruiting systems, so why do they need NSR?

Answer: College coaches do have their own systems and procedures. Each one has limitations, needs and criteria based on the budgetary and recruiting restrictions handed to them by the athletic directors and college presidents.

We are a big part of many colleges' recruiting systems and we believe that we are an important part of the future of college recruiting. Our job is not to recruit for them, but to help them with their needs. Because coaches are so severely restricted by recruiting budgets, limited personnel and most of all, by strict NCAA rules, they are not allowed to scout and evaluate prospects the same way NSR scouts can. We have much more freedom and leverage. And, of course, since we have over 200 professional scouts nationwide, we can be much more thorough in our scouting than any individual college can possibly be.

We continuously obtain and report scouting information to college coaches on every prospect. It is up to the coaches to evaluate this information and decide who they will recruit and make offers to. The more continuous information they have and the better the information they receive on a prospect, the better chance that prospect has of being recruited and eventually being offered a scholarship.

We personally talk to numerous college coaches by phone every day. It is not uncommon for us to personally communicate with 50 or more college coaches in a week. Our service is free to every college and every college coach in the country.

Question: How do I know I will be good enough to play college ball when I graduate, or if I will be academically eligible?

Answer: Your guidance counselor, high school coach, travel or club coach, along with your professional instructors, are your best recommendations. If you get these recommendations (as we require), work hard to improve your skills, get your grades as high as possible and make sure you maintain good character and a work ethic, you will become the prospect you want to be.

Question: I believe I will be a college prospect and so do my parents and coaches. However, we want to think about it awhile before we enroll with NSR. Is this a good idea?

Answer: Procrastination causes more failures and missed opportunities than anything else. You have nothing to gain by waiting, but you have everything to lose. If you had a serious illness and needed an operation, would you wait? If you did, the illness would just get worse, and you would still need the operation. Your opportunity to participate in college athletics is very similar. Your recruiting chances diminish every day you put off engaging in the recruiting process. Prospects from your graduating class enter the process every day and college coaches are evaluating their skills and talents as their information becomes available to them. Waiting only puts you in a much longer line.

Question: How does NSR compare with other scouting services?

Answer: NSR is the oldest and most experienced high school scouting and promotional company in America. We are larger and have more college influence than any other scouting service. We are the only company that offers a full range of services for promoting only legitimate prospects.

Question: I am already getting questionnaires from colleges, so why do I need to enroll with NSR?

Answer: A questionnaire is only an information form sent out by colleges. It does not mean you are being recruited. Some college athletic programs will send out a thousand or more questionnaires each year, but will only sign 25 or fewer prospects. Do not make the mistake of thinking a college coach is going to recruit you just because you received a questionnaire. However, if you are a good prospect and you are not getting any questionnaires or you are only getting a few, it could be an indication that you are being overlooked. This should be considered a serious threat to your chances and you would be wise to get some help with your personal exposure. When you start getting questionnaires, keep in mind that you are competing with many other prospects, just as good as you, who also got a questionnaire. Being an NSR prospect will give you the advantage over others.

Question: What does it cost to enroll with NSR?

Answer: If you are a legitimate prospect with a proper recommendation, a NSR counselor will arrange for a personal interview. If you qualify for our programs, we will discuss the investment necessary to get you enrolled. But, it is important to understand that the amount your parents will invest is not as significant as the amount they pay every year to keep you on a travel team and to furnish you with equipment and supplies. If you are playing on a club or travel team, you can afford our service. If you are not getting the attention from college coaches that you deserve, you cannot afford not to enroll with us.