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Take every recruiting call from coaches, even ones you're not interested in. It's practice, the coach might move to a better program later, and they can become references. Ask about their playing style and what drives them as a coach.
Take every recruiting call from coaches, even ones you're not interested in. It's practice, the coach might move to a better program later, and they can become references. Ask about their playing style and what drives them as a coach.
First of all, congratulations. No matter what coach you're talking to at what level, even if it's a coach you're not really interested in or a school you're not interested in, you should almost always take the call. One, it's good practice. Two, the coach may end up leaving somewhere. Three, some coaches are willing to be references for you, even if that's not a school you like. They definitely know coaches at other places, and you can be honest with them. And literally at some point you could eventually say, look, you're not a school for me, but I really appreciate you. You know, is there another school? There's this school, and I saw you have a connection. Would you recommend me? And they really might do that. So what you need to say though on these calls is this. So the question you need questions you need to ask the coaches typically are around the playing style, which means you should have already watched them play quite a bit. And then also, if you want to get extra points, ask them about their life. You can say, why do you like coaching? Why do you like this school? When you first started coaching, is this something you knew you wanted to do? The more you ask them about their own life, you'd be really surprised why they love that. Because remember, at this point, if you're on a call, they like you as a player, they're trying to get to know you as a person. And if you can ask them really mature questions, now they're thinking, this kid could be the captain of my team. If you want more help, comment Oh, it's gonna call you and your parents.
