Recruiting has become quite the animal, if we are being honest, particularly in football. It seems, more and more, like the ability to play the actual game means less all the time. College recruiters call on high school coaches less and less in evaluating talent for their incoming classes. Evaluation […]
In this article, we asked 10 football enthusiasts who identities we agreed not to reveal how they perceived an offer from each of Kentucky’s in-state college football programs from top to bottom. The contents of this article is ranked how they ranked them.
The late Whitney Houston recorded a song with the lyric “how do I know if he really loves me?” The same question runs through the minds of parents about college recruiters who very often toy around with their student-athlete’s affections. We believe we may have discovered something weighty about how to tell when a school is interested versus feigning interest. That information is in this article and for the exclusive use of our subscribers. That’s why you pay us “the big bucks.” Enjoy the article and try to learn something. HB.
Will there be a season? We don’t know the answer to that. In this article we talk about it, what some kids are doing with the down-time, and what we think about the chances and how one should act accordingly. Enjoy the article. It is the most about politics we will EVER discuss. HB.
Okay, who’s ready to pull out their hair. Recruiting is crazy all the time. This season, it is down right nuts. This article seeks to inject a little levity and sense back into a recruiting cycle in football unlike any which has gone on before it. Enjoy the article. HB.
What if…it is a phrase terrifying parents of rising football seniors. In this article we go through some scenarios and offer some suggestions. Enjoy the article. HB.
Junior Day invites are going out and many of the players we have before featured are getting them. Parents called us all day asking what a Junior Day invite really means. Well the answer is different depending on the school and the school’s recruiting philosophy. Is it worth going? We think so and the contents of this article is why we say that. HB.
We get asked (all the time) to tell this school or that whether this player or that can play at the school’s level of competition. There are people out there who possess “the eye.” If they say a kid can play at a certain level, college coaches have learned they can trust that. JT Powell and Carlos Younger are certainly two people possessing “the eye.” We talked to Powell about what one has to be, to be able to get to the next level of football (from HS to college). This article contains what he told us…
Scrimmage results are flying across chat rooms, newspaper headlines, and blogs all over the commonwealth of Kentucky. The winners believe it is a credible forecast of success, the losers either believe the team was trying to “not show too much” or it is a forecast of a forthcoming “long year.” Well, truthfully, neither is true. Enjoy this article about scrimmages and why the outcome shouldn’t either dampen or intensify your seasonal expectations.
This is a phenomenon we discussed with Darion’s father just yesterday. Why was EKU the first to evaluate Dearinger and then only offer after two bigger, more prestigious schools pulled the trigger. Do they believe FBS schools are better at evaluating prospects than the coaches they have hired? Don’t know, but FCS schools slow-walking obvious Division I, FBS-Level talent is a strategy which some coach at that level might want to explain to us sometime. We don’t see the benefit of arriving at the station after the train has departed.
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