CaptainU?

Famous childrens book? I have heard of it, but not in the same context I believe.

Now THAT was funny!

My son started using it in the spring to send out introductions and schedules for the summer. He likes being able to see who looks at his profile so he can follow up with them. The only thing we don't like are the only e-mail addresses in the system are head coaches and no recruiting coordinators. He has had almost 100% of him e-mails opened and a high number who looked at his profile. It's more expensive than be recruited.com but there is a lot of bang for the buck. Now that he can be emailed there is even a greater response from some coaches.

I recently have gone through this process as a player. i have found that most of these sites are not worth the money. the best way to be recruited in my mind is to target schools youre interested in and go to their recruiting camp. most of the time there will be additional schools there. make sure to send follow up emails asking for feedback from the camp. establishing a connection with the coach is important. do not send a generic email to every coach in attendance, make it more personal. hope this helps

Great books - a "blast" from the past!

Agree with Johnnyb1095 - and it seems like a new site like this rolls out every six months. We took a pass on NCSA when we found their scout on linkedin.com and saw that his last job was at Applebee's.

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Originally posted by fenwaysouth:
Famous childrens book? I have heard of it, but not in the same context I believe.

Saw this without paying attention to the poster and thought it was from Gotwood.

Great one Fenway.

What about eScout4u.com, any one had any experience with them?

We found NCSA, Captain U, and BeRecruited to be a waste of money because they email coaches. We read a lot about this topic and found that coaches get hundreds of emails a day and do not like to be spammed athlete's profiles

It shows the coach more motivation if the contact comes directly from the player. My son's travel coach also asked for his list of schools. The college coach heard from my son via email and his travel coach via the phone.

2013 definitely was contacted by coaches who searched berecruited and found him. But all of his initial contact with coaches was through direct, personal emails, not blasts.

 

CaptainU sent him his first email last summer indicating that a coach had found him through their service, and I posted a similar thread here because we had never heard of them, either. We have never subscribed or anything, and he now receives at least one or two messages a day that he has been viewed. We're not sure who is seeing him - or what they are seeing - and he has been committed since December, which they would learn from a very quick Google search of his name and the word "baseball" or our hometown.

 

be careful with the "the your profile has been viewed or you were found in a search" some schools will find you in a search 10x and you may think 10 schools saw your profile when in fact it was 1 school. 10x

FWIW: we're opening up a Salesforce.com account so that we can manage this whole process. It may be a bit expensive over a 12-18 month period ($65/month not discounted), but as a contact management system, it's a tremendous tool.

my younger son is registered on Captain U for soccer. We are not paying and only have his profile up. He gets an email message saying a coach has looked at his profile, but dont know which school it was. Usually we get an invite to a schools camp immediately after a coach has viewed his profile.