3 Tips To Increase Your Basketball Scholarship Opportunities
Here’s three ways parents can increase their child’s chances of getting a college basketball scholarship.
In case you didn’t know it, the landscape of college basketball has changed a lot since Covid. Long gone are the days where schools can take a leap of faith on a High School Player. If you’re not a top 150 caliber player, then chances are, you’re probably going to be recuited down one level, or worse, not at all. In either case you’re going to have to look for alternatives. The good news is there are some simple steps you can take to increase positive exposure for your Student – Athlete.
1) Understand the levels – One of the things I’ve come to realize by working with tons of parents, is that most parents don’t understand the different levels of college basketball. They only know Duke, Kansas, Kentucky, and maybe their local team. Very few understand the levels, and the difference between them. The kid that is being recruited by Duke, is most likely not being recruited by Lousiana Tech, Hofstra. or Cal Baptist and certainly not by Bethesda. Understanding the difference between NAIA, NCAA, D1, D2, D3 and JUCO will save you a ton of time when it comes to reaching out to to colleges on your child’s behalf.
2) Go watch College Basketball – One of the fatal flaws most parents and kids have, is that they simply don’t watch enough college basketball. College Basketball has a niche audience and most people are much more familiar with the NBA. The problem with that is two fold.
- The players that play in the NBA are the best 500 or so basketball players in the world – What they do on the court is going to be virtually impossible for you to duplicate, and even worse, could hurt your chances with college coaches if you fail while attempting these higher degree of difficulty moves.
- NBA players are paid professionals who have the money and time to invest entirely on their craft – High School and college players are still under the constraints of day to day responsiblities including schooling, and mundane day to day task. To think that someone who has 4 hours a day, can keep up with someone who spends 12 hours a day, is luducris.
To combat this, encourage your child to watch more college games, better yet, encourage them to attend as many as possible. Because of the supply of college games, tickets are much more affordable, allowing you to get close access to the floor, where you can witness the speed, power and physicality of the game.
3) Use a third party service – The number one mistake most parents make is attempting to go directly to coaches. For starters there are several rules that prohibit coaches from making contact with recruits and their parents. More importantly and I think this is the most difficult for parents to understand. If you’re a coach at the college level, everyday you’re bombarded with text, email’s and calls from parents telling you why you should invest in their kid. Most of this falls on deaf ears to college coaches, and could even cancel some players out. For starters, it’s human nature for most coaches to belive that if a kid was really that good, that they wouldn’t need their parents to reach out. Using a third party recruiting service reduces the likelyhood of a coach, seeing you as just another bias parent. Whether you use our Player Placement Service or someone else’s, a third party recruiting service can go a long way to giving your student athlete a recruiting edge.
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