Recruiting Etiquette: return ALL emails/telephone calls?

takeitallin
Thu, 23 Jul 2015 17:25:54 +0000

More thoughts about phone calls- I know that when my son was first talking to coaches, he was very nervous about calling them and preferred e-mails. However, he found it much more effective to send an initial e-mail introducing himself and presenting all of his stats , and then following up with a phone call about a week later. Those first few phone calls were difficult for him, but he got much better with practice. He found that he didn’t always have to say a whole lot as many of the coaches steered the conversation. We sat down at one point and came up with a list of questions that coaches might ask (and questions he might want to ask the coach) so he had at least thought about good answers before talking to them. He also always looked at the team website before talking to a coach so that he was somewhat familiar with the current roster, team accomplishments, and the coach background.