*Originally Posted on 8/9/2021 This is one of the many ploys from online recruiting platforms like NCSA. They start marketing to you aggressively when your athlete is 13 or 14 years old, before any school can realistically start recruiting them. They try and sell you on this point:

It's a great sport and I love it, but the sport doesn't define me and it shouldn't define you.

As we have progressed through these new recruiting rules over the last couple of classes I have seen small changes here and there and a couple big changes that college coaches have made. Trying to pull back and look at this current recruiting class from as wide of an angle as possible, it seems that a majority of college coaches seem to be going in 1 of 2 ways when it comes to offers.

I throw a lot of statistics and numbers out there for parents and athletes. My goal in doing this is to help them understand the odds they are up against and just how difficult this process can be for some athletes. If you want to see some interesting numbers, make sure you subscribe to the "PRI Blog Pass" so you can take a look at some of the data I have been collecting on where athletes from Texas are playing volleyball.

I get asked the following question a lot:

If you're in the 2023 class, all I am asking you to do is send a minimum of 5 emails to 50 schools between now and June 15th.

When you look at much film and recruiting profiles as I do, you start to notice a lot of different variations of the same thing. It really doesn't matter what you have around the film, I'm still going to click on the first film I see in order to get as quick of an evaluation as I can. This falls under the "make their job as easy as possible" category. If we are making college coaches search everywhere and beyond for a highlight link, or your graduation year or whatever els