College Coaches Recruiting Parents

[400SOAVE]

I was listening to an NCAA station on SiriusXM. The topic was recruiting with a focus on parents.

There's a growing trend where coaches look at parents and family as closely as the recruit. It seems that parents can be a great help to a coach. Conversely, they can become a major headache.

The coach being interviewed (I think it was a B1G football coach) said he dropped his recruitment of a top athlete because of the way the kid talked to his mother during a home visit.

It was very interesting. It's smart of coaches who are doing this. The reality is when you bring in a player, you are also starting a long-term relationship with the recruit's parents.

So parents need to know that while you're evaluating the coach and the program, the coach is also sizing you up.

For further reading and viewing:

http://devzone.positivecoach.org/re...ches-consider-parents-when-selecting-recruits

http://www.ncsasports.org/blog/2016/02/09/college-coaches-evaluating-parents-recruits/

 

[hallgrad80]

I can understand this . The worst position I ever held was as president of our Little League for two years. The kids were fine many of the parent's not so much.

 

[Seton75]

Parents of kids in my son's Catholic Grammar School hoops league never failed to make you shake your head in disgusted amazement