JoeA1010
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May I toss out a suggestion to girls trying to get recruited? When you e-mail college coaches, e-mail them directly, not through Captain U or any other recruiting service. Make it easy for us, not difficult. I would venture to guess that 90 percent of e-mails sent though Captain U, for example, never get read by a college coach.
I just got one of these from a girl through Captain U. I've had hundreds more, but just realized they were going straight to my Spam folder. Anyway, we have to click on a link that says Click Here to Read the Message. Then if we aren't automatically signed in, we have to somehow find our user name and password and sign in. Then we have to look around and find the girl's name among many other recruits and click on her name. Then we have to scroll around forever through her profile, only to find there is another tab that says Message and click on that tab before finding the message. And then if it's somebody who we can e-mail back, we can do it through Captain U, but not directly through our own e-mail from that message, which isn't likely to happen.
We all get hundreds of e-mails per week at this time of the year. The big schools (OSU, Mich, etc.) probably get thousands upon thousands. Anything through a recruiting service likely isn't getting read by more than 5% of the coaches it was sent to. For me, if it is an e-mail sent directly to me and specifically to me (and not 50 other coaches), there is a 100% chance it will be read. I'd guess it's the same for all coaches at the NAIA, D3, D2 and even up to small-to-mid level D1s.
I just got one of these from a girl through Captain U. I've had hundreds more, but just realized they were going straight to my Spam folder. Anyway, we have to click on a link that says Click Here to Read the Message. Then if we aren't automatically signed in, we have to somehow find our user name and password and sign in. Then we have to look around and find the girl's name among many other recruits and click on her name. Then we have to scroll around forever through her profile, only to find there is another tab that says Message and click on that tab before finding the message. And then if it's somebody who we can e-mail back, we can do it through Captain U, but not directly through our own e-mail from that message, which isn't likely to happen.
We all get hundreds of e-mails per week at this time of the year. The big schools (OSU, Mich, etc.) probably get thousands upon thousands. Anything through a recruiting service likely isn't getting read by more than 5% of the coaches it was sent to. For me, if it is an e-mail sent directly to me and specifically to me (and not 50 other coaches), there is a 100% chance it will be read. I'd guess it's the same for all coaches at the NAIA, D3, D2 and even up to small-to-mid level D1s.