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A soccer recruit who messaged every college program now has a solid offer with four years of playing time and a big scholarship. Time to flip the strategy: stop casting a wide net and focus on a few schools that actually match what they want.
A soccer recruit who messaged every college program now has a solid offer with four years of playing time and a big scholarship. Time to flip the strategy: stop casting a wide net and focus on a few schools that actually match what they want.
A while back, whether you remember or not, we were in a place where we didn't even know if you were going to have interest. And now we've got interest from a lot of different schools. You had gotten some interest on your own, say, before me, but the progression we've had since then, I mean, obviously you have an offer from a very good school who has literally told you you'll start all 4 years and probably with your grades, you're going to get a very big academic scholarship. So that's great. In saying that, what's key for you at this moment is now that we have the offer in place that we like, we get to focus and start to narrow down our list. Until you have an offer you like, you have to stay very broad and send basically everybody, not under the moon, but everybody who you think you might be interested in, and even those you've not heard of, a message. Otherwise, you, you know, college soccer is a privilege. You have an offer from a school that you're pretty happy about. So in saying that, I— we can either look back at our list of schools we plan to both apply to, which obviously fits the perfect world, or we can, you know, still look at some other schools because we want to explore some other options, or we can really narrow down and tunnel on just a few choices. So
