Recruiting Trap - You're Too Busy

You are busy. Everyone gets that. I get that. College coaches get that. But what you have to remember is that someone is emailing college coaches. Conversations are happening. If you're "too busy" then you're going to miss out on potential opportunities.

Everyone is busy all the time. The only time when college coaches aren't busy is when they aren't working. It's hard to get in touch with college coaches sometimes. Trust me. I have coaching friends I have known for years and it takes two texts, a phone call/voice mail and an email before I hear back from them. Timing is of the essence. You have to catch them at the right time at the right moment. It's why consistency is so important during your recruiting journey. Not only do you create REALLY good habits, but you give coaches an incentive to respond to you.

Can you spare 5 minutes or even 15 minutes to reach out to a college coach? Then you aren't too busy. You have priorities and that's okay. But if you're too busy involves 30 minutes to work on a tiktok dance with your friend, you aren't THAT busy.

Try switching your priorities - set some different standards for yourself. Prior to tiktok or instagram, you have to send 10 emails/messages to college coaches. That's doable right? It doesn't have to be 4 straight hours of emails. We are ALL too busy for that, right? Even this blog that I'm writing right now; if I don't finish in the next 10 minutes or so, I will probably move on to something else and then come back to it.

No one is asking you to give-up ALL of your free time to get recruited, we (myself usually) are asking that you make it a priority, just like you make school and volleyball a priority. Think about it in another way - if you're communicating to college coaches that you're too busy right now by not communicating consistently with them and showing interest, then how is that going to be different when you get to college? Now in college you've got longer days of class, weights, practice, rehab/ice, studying and travel time on a bus or a plane. How well are you managing your time now and how well are you going to manage it when you get to college?

College coaches are busy too but don't let them off the hook. Are you that athlete that is making the coach drop everything they are doing to respond to your email? If not, then we need to talk about adjusting your list a little bit (shoot me a message). It's all about priorities. Where does getting recruited rank on your priority list? How bad do you want it? When you get to college how badly do you want to win a conference championship? How badly do you want to EARN that starting spot in the rotation? Academics and life still have to be a priority, right? Maybe it just takes a little shifting of your list to put you over the edge in your recruiting, in your academics and on that depth chart.

Think about what you really want, then reach out to me and we can get you going in the right direction.

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