College Volleyball Recruiting: Why Good Advice Matters
- Jason
- Jan 1
- 3 min read
Updated: Jul 26
If you spend any time on one of the many Volleyball FB groups, it's inevitable that someone will ask about a recruiting service, NCSA, or general college volleyball recruiting advice. I'm always amazed at two things: 1) the general advice that's given that may or may not apply to that person or may or may not actually be good advice, and 2) the number of people giving the "you don't need help" advice.
I don't think that the sometimes bad advice is ill-intentioned. I don't think people are doing it on purpose. The difference is usually advice from someone who has done this recruiting process ONCE or maybe even been "around" it a couple of times VS the person that does this 100s of times every recruiting cycle (that's me). This is something that I have mentioned several times before through social media and something I've talked about on my podcast. But this incident made me need to chat about it more.
A college coach shared a picture of an email earlier this week. I have been posting a bunch on social media about athletes and families getting wrong info and how it can negatively impact their recruiting, and this coach shared this email with me. I won't post the picture of the email, but the basic idea of the email was this:
A dad reached out to a D1 assistant hoping that the coach would give his daughter some input on how recruiting really works. The daughter had apparently been telling her father that she needed to play club volleyball to get recruited. The dad knew this to be "misguided" and was hoping that this coach would shed some light on the subject.
