Aside from being a lot of fun, there is real, tangible ROI you and your family can reap from applying to college as not only a specialist, but as a recruited athlete in general.

All sports teams, at all division levels are able to “slot” recruited student-athletes or prospective student-athlete (PSA’s from hereon out) that don’t need to meet the regular admissions requirements of other students.

If you are a scholarship athlete, for Divisions II through FBS, it is kind of like a fast pass you can receive at Disney that helps you “cut the line” so-to-speak. Is this fair? The revenue that colleges make from their sports programs usually helps them get over any moral qualms pretty quickly with the merit of the recruited vs. non-recruited student.

Even at the Division III level, where at some smaller schools 5-10% of the entire male population of a school might be the football program, a PSA will find the admissions process a lot easier.

This can be especially helpful for families interested in leveraging their sports to gain admissions to the world’s most exclusive and elite academic institutions like the Ivy League, NESCAC schools, and the MITs, Johns Hopkins, and Michigans of the world.

Now, this is only if you manage to get yourself recruited by these schools in the first place. This ebook is going to distill exactly how I’ve helped hundreds of families and players just like you leverage their kicking, punting or snapping to gain admissions to places like Boston College, Michigan, Yale, Princeton, Columbia, Amherst, Williams, Bucknell, Pomona College, Fordham and more across nearly a decade of doing this.

It’s important to remember a few key things before you dive into this:

1. You can do everything right, and still fail - It might just be that your dream school doesn’t need a specialist your year despite being everything on paper they should want. That’s life. It happens a lot in recruiting.
2. You can’t force a college coach to say yes to you - Anyone promising you a guarantee of an offer is unethical. All the guys guaranteeing offers are in jail. College coaches are going to make decisions that they want to make, not what you want sometimes.
3. You can only do things that make an offer MORE or less likely.

I remember being lost, frustrated and totally disenchanted with my own recruiting 1,000 years ago. There was no playbook. Nothing like this that my parents and I could see online, click and then at least have a roadmap to try and figure all this out. I loved my HS coaches, but they too were clueless.

Rather than thinking of this book as a recipe for an offer, think of it more like a good jazz band might look at a song: we’ve got our ballads that everyone’s going to hit, but then within each musician’s performance, their going to put their own spin on the song.