You've certainly heard the phrase, "Don't put all of your eggs in one basket." This rule applies to college recruiting as well.

We shouldn't be shocked.

Don't let my 800 followers on Instagram fool you, but I'm not famous. While I'm out recruiting at a convention center, no one stops me...

This is a topic that comes up a lot with college coaches. Not just D1 coaches either; I have similar discussions with D2 coaches as well. One college coach and I were talking about this from the D1 perspective. Specifically, "What makes a school/program Division 1?" It might seem like a simple question, but I think it's something we need to discuss openly more and more because I'm not sure we really understand the differences.

Height is a big deal when it comes to recruiting volleyball athletes at all levels of college. Height certainly can give you an...

I'm not talking about having goals to get to a certain level or a certain college. I'm talking about making some goals for yourself ONCE you get to college.

As Triple Crown approaches and the D1 Quiet Period comes to an end, I think one of the biggest things to remember is to have fun .

*This ended up being less of a checklist. My goal is always to help parents and athletes with the recruiting process. I hope something like this is helpful as you evaluate where you want to play college volleyball. I'm not perfect by any means. There are lots of variables in recruiting - that is something that isn't necessarily mentioned in this post. If you've been around me the last 6 months you know that this is one of my soapboxes. I've talked about it with club coa

There is a huge difference between "passive" and "active" waiting when it comes to recruiting.

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 have an entire seminar structured around a Post-June 15th situation where you don't get any phone calls from coaches or you don't hear from the ones that you wanted to hear from. As MLK tournament weekends are really the start to the club season and Qualifier season is right around the corner, for those of you that are uncommitted it's potentially a good time to start looking at what you can do differently in your recruiting process.

Now, I don't watch football games anymore unless I get invited to a party of some sort. Still one of my favorite sports to watch on TV, but it's not really something I do anymore. I still love sports though! So when I heard that a tie between the Raiders and Chargers meant they would both make the playoffs, I was overly intrigued. The game being on Sunday Night Football I think added more to the intrigue. For me, the notion that the Broncos would be left out of the playo

I normally don't share other "recruiter's stuff", but I thought this story was too good NOT to share. I won't repeat the entire post for you, but there are several thoughts I have outside of the title for this blog post.

I'm not fancy like Lane Kiffin, but this mirrors what I have been saying about the portal. Not everything exactly applies to volleyball...

Do you know that the NCAA Volleyball Championship is this weekend? Hopefully you answered "yes" to that question. If not, then at least...

I've talked about this before on my podcast and it's a topic that I have been communicating about for at least the last year. I talk about scholarship opportunities a lot; what's available; how many are available; what positions schools are most likely looking for. All of that is for the purpose of seeing where you stack up compared to the rest of the country and what might be realistic. So that if you're a parent of a Libero you understand that scholarship opportunities a

I think that in general ANY response from a college coach is good. It doesn't necessarily mean that they are "interested" or even...

When it comes to our list of things we are looking for in a college program, the coach is usually near the bottom or not even on the list...

The State Tournament in Texas is this weekend. That means that the high school season is ending. Many athletes will "start" the recruiting process, even though college coaches have been recruiting this entire volleyball season. Several athletes were on recruiting visits this past weekend.

Huge congrats to all of the athletes across the country signing their NLI's to play at the college level this week. This is a huge accomplishment for athletes and their families. It's not the end of the journey, but really only the next step or even midway point in their volleyball journeys.