What one student athlete and their family perceives to be the recruiting reality may be completely different for another.

The normal assumption is that the "Ranked" prospects have the easiest time in recruiting and that everybody else will have a much harder time in the recruiting process. We have found this to be a big misconception.

While it is true that the top prospects have their choice of several scholarship offers, there are disappointments and problems as well. In some cases, the student athlete has a favorite school, that school makes a good offer, the student athlete verbally commits and the rest is history.  Even the top prospects do not get solid, or any offers from their favorite schools. This may be due to any of the following reasons.

*That school team have a higher needing for a player at a different position

*They may have recruited or signed another student athlete that plays the same position

*The student athlete sis not meet the minimum requirements to get accepted to the school

Secondly, you have the student athlete that is considered not highly ranked. He or she is a legitimate college prospect that can probably fit at a quality program.  More often than not the above average student athlete will end up with a couple of scholarship offers. Maybe a mid to lower NCAA DI or NCAA DII, or maybe a junior college program or two.  This type of prospect might recieve 5 or 10 offers which is very likely to happen. 

For the good high school player that is a somewhat average college prospect the truth of recruiting may be that he or she does not hear anything from a college until the mid point of his senior high school season. Many times this caliber of player will receive one scholarship offer from a local school.  So what is the "truth of recruiting?" It depends on the player's abilities, the needs of college programs that have had the opportunity to see him or her play, and most importantly the academic accomplishments of the student athlete.  There is some consideration in what type of travel ball program he or she has participated in, among other reasons. The truth in recruiting is that it is different for every player.