Recruiting in June

This is an important time of the year for football recruiting. Some people ask the question, why in the month of June is high school football recruiting of top priority. With all the new rule changes that have occurred with Division 1 recruiting, June is an unbelievably valuable month. Most if not all of the Division 1A schools are conducting late Spring, early Summer football camps bringing in multitude of prospects for evaluation purposes. Some high school players have already verbally committed prior to the completion of the Junior Academic Year. Now the College camp circuit gives numerous Division 1A programs an opportunity to evaluate other prospects that have not verbally committed. Do not forget recruiting fans that there are 220,000 high school seniors that play High school football every season and out of that 220 Thousand that compete, just about 2200 will sign NCAA Division 1A on the first Wednesday in February. That equates to about 1% of all Seniors playing this Fall 2010 football season will get a scholarship to a Division 1A program. To show how accurate this is with the class of 2009 in Pennsylvania, there were approximately 8400 Seniors that played high school football in the great state of Pennsylvania and 84 young men received 1A scholarships. I ran a recruiting/teaching football camp for 29 years, enjoyed every minute of it, but unfortunately with NCAA rule changes, my Metro Index Camp got temporarily legislated out of business. Good luck to all the young football players this June during the camp circuit. Oh and by the way there are only 50 days to the beginning of Steeler's training camp.