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College Recruiting Discussion with NSR College Scout Corey Else
Nick Lemke: Diving into the world of athlete recruiting and development, our guest today is Corey Else, the Oklahoma State Director of National Scouting Report and owner of Pro Day Athlete Development, Speed and Agility Tulsa which is also in Oklahoma. Corey has an extensive experience helping athletes from youth to the pros, enhance their performance. And get recruited by colleges at all levels. So Corey, thank you for joining us today.
Corey Else : You bet, Nick, I’m super excited to be a part of the podcast and look forward to just spreading the word about athlete development, athlete recruiting.
Nick Lemke: Yes, for sure. So, so First off, just can you tell us a little bit more? About what NSR does to help athletes get recruited and what your role is in that process.
Corey Else : You bet. So I am a college scout with National Scouting Report. National Scatter report started 44 years ago in 1980, so kind of the 1st in the industry. So everybody else is kind of playing in our sandbox, I like to say. We are the eyes and ears of college coaches to make sure that we are bringing them talented athletes that have a good head on their shoulders. They do well with their academics and of course can play at the athletic level. So we love just being there and families pay us to help them to. They get recruited and it is not something that you can just buy off the shelf. We are an offer only, invite only organization. And so I ideally would love to take a look at an athletes performance. It could be any sport. So I work with just about any sport that’s out there and I’m not. Non regionally or by location either. So I work with international athletes, soccer, golf, volleyball, you name it. So and that that also helps that I have that athletic background and as far as performance is concerned, so I can take a look at their athleticism and help guide them through that process as well.
Nick Lemke: Yeah. And you said before you got into the recruiting. Says you started with, uh, pro day athlete development, uh, can you tell us more about that and how that helps how your, your, your facility helps develop fleets and their performance?
Corey Else : Sure, you bet. So I started pro day sports five years ago. We are Oklahoma’s highest rated and most reviews sports performance. Training, our main three things that we like to focus on are developing Speed and Agility Tulsa. So we are a USSR speed lab. There’s about 100 of us around the country certified in that through Les Spellman and USR Speed and Agility Tulsa. And then also project pure athlete, we are vertical jump certified at the level 2. So Coach Chase and Coach Ty with Project Pure Athlete, you got to take a look at them if you haven’t already. They help with the approach to a vertical jump and we can literally turn around somebody’s approach touch in a matter of minutes. Honestly, just making sure that they’re more efficient. And then of course, core rotational power. That’s the third. Kind of key pillar that we focus on, we are lucky enough in our W locations, we have 3 in the Tulsa, OK area and our W location we have a Prius. If you’re not familiar with that, if you look at Patrick Mahhomes on quarterback on Netflix, he’s using the Proteus to develop his core strength. So, all things that. Are trackable, uh, we want to be able to see how high somebody jumps, how fast they run. Of course, that’s very important in the recruiting process to make yourself stand out. And we’ll talk about the different phases of the recruiting process. But in phase two, that’s, that’s ideal, right? Every coach should looking for certain specific metrics of an athlete. So we want to help. Find their baseline, rank them against other athletes nationally and then help them to develop that and, and climb up the ladder getting recruited.
Nick Lemke: Yeah, I, I like that. And I gotta say, like when I was looking into, because like I said, like I knew you from NSR, like I was familiar with that, but I wasn’t as familiar with the facility. And then I was like. As soon as I saw like the certifications and I saw the connection with Les Spellman, I was like, OK, this is kind of cool for Speed and Agility Tulsa. Yep. So what? Just out of curiosity, what are some athletes or things that I’ve stuck out to you through your time running pro day? Like is there any athletes that stuck out to you or anything that you? Feel like it’s especially important now that you’re in the recruiting side of things.
Corey Else : You know, I know you’re, you’re in the nutrition world. So, I mean, consistency is key, right? So, I’m looking for athlete, the ones that stick out to me are the ones that don’t give up a day or don’t give up a series of days to where they fall off track. I mean that. Is that is a, that is a part of our life, whether it’s sports or our job or losing weight or getting fit. I mean, consistency is key. And so that’s what I look for and that’s what that’s what really stands out to me about athletes. They come through Pro Da, but also come through NSR through other, through other locations throughout the United States or throughout the world, I’m always looking for There’s a small difference between being ordinary and extraordinary, right? And I think consistency is a big part of that Is staying consistent with your training, staying consistent with anything in life. I want you to be proactive, and I want you to. Um. Have a reason, a reason for what you’re doing. And so, I’m always curious to interview athletes and see what their reason is. I’d love to hear about the desire to play in college and what they’re doing now tells me the type of athlete they’re going to be in college. How hard you work out? Are you, you know, are you dragging your parents to the gym like. Most of the athletes that I interview Part 16 yet they’re not driving, so I want to hear from the parents. So they’re constantly dragging me to the Speed and Agility Tulsa gym. We’ll talk about nutrition a little bit. You know, what are you doing to fill your body? All those things that they’re doing now in life will tell me the type of athlete. That they’ll be when they’re in college.
Nick Lemke: I like that. I like the word consistency. That’s one that I try to use a lot, especially when you, like you said, when it comes to nutrition discipline. I think those two go hand in hand where you know, you need to have that discipline to have that consistency. And just like showing up to workouts, nutrition’s the same thing. You got to, you know. You’re skipping breakfast, you know, on weekends just cause you’re sleeping until 11. Like that’s a missed opportunity to get better, Um. Yeah, yeah, yeah, definitely.
Corey Else : Yeah. And I think along those lines too, right. Getting started, it just takes, it just takes getting started with Speed and Agility Tulsa and having a small consistent pattern to your life and then that’ll just build from there. So not only on the back end where you miss a breakfast because of the weekend. But also on the front end, how do you, how do you get started? Like don’t tackle this all together, but little consistent steps are going to help you to, to get there.
Nick Lemke: Yes, for sure, for sure. I know we could dig a lot into that, that piece alone, but I know we, we want to get into the, the four stages of recruiting. So can, can we talk about that a little bit? Can you break that down?
Corey Else : Yeah, I know we talked about it ahead of time. As far as I like to, I like to describe it as 4 stages. And my, my company’s been around for 44 years. So this, these 4 stages have always been in place, but there’s consistently things that are different that I’m telling different athletes about, right? So I like to have them. Visualize that they are on a college track, right? Even though they’re a volleyball player or soccer player or competing for that volleyball scholarship on this college track, right? And we’re watching the Olympics right now. So a lot of them can visualize it. So 400 meters, you have starting line we’re going to break it up into. Four different phases. It is a blessing alone, Nick, to be on that track competing for a scholarship with that coach. OK, so visualize there’s one coach in the stands and they’re watching everybody compete to ultimately received that scholarship.
Phase 1 So in our industry, we typically see that athletes will compete depending on support, but across all sports we’ll save 300 athletes will be viewed to ultimately receive one of those athletes will receive an offer. So I have the athlete visualized there on the starting line looking around 300 all other competitors and what is called the. Identification recognition stage of the recruiting process. That is you Nick in Seattle, WA raising your hand saying I play soccer but I’m willing to travel like I am not stuck here. I have a degree that is offered at multiple universities. I I want to be seen. Um, I’m up here in Seattle, but you know, nobody knows about me yet. So that’s identification, recognition. It’s going online and filling out questionnaires for college coaches again, helping them to realize that this young athlete, you yourself, I mean, you have to take the bull by the horns, right? This is this is your process. It’s not mom’s process when she played in college. It’s not older sister, older brothers process that graduated five years ago. It is different now than it is then, but it also is different athlete to athlete. So identification recognition is really putting yourself out there and you know you have 300 competitors.
Phase 2, uh, this is called prospect evaluation. That is where when we brought up a little bit earlier metrics, this college coach may have never seen you play your sport, but they know what they look for. They they’ve been recruiting for a while. They know what they look for. We call it a recruiting box if you don’t touch. 9 foot 6 as a volleyball player. You aren’t getting recruited by this coach as a front row player. Could be a 40 time. Um, it could be pitching bubble, pitching velocity, right, pitching speed, could be a variety of different things, but they don’t have time to filter through a bunch of athletes to ultimately come up with that. So they’re, they’re going to cut that 300 to about 150 athletes on average Phase 2. As you can see, we’re going down this path and we’re filtering through a lot of you can get a lot of nose in this industry to get handful or a lot of yeses, right. So that’s ultimately the goal. 150 phase two of the recruiting process.
Phase 3 is the one I’d love to talk about the most. OK, so. Phase 3 prospect comparison instead of evaluation. Now you’re showing up to a college campus to compete against other outside hitters, against other forwards, against other pitchers. A lot of times you’re on the same court with the current team. They like you and about 30 other athletes in the space, so now cut it down to 30. They like you, but they’re going to be asking the current team, is she or is he a fit for our culture? Like, could you see this athlete playing for us? I tell the athletes they’re going to spend just as much time with that coach and that coach spends with their own family. They gotta like you. Everybody wants to be liked. On it next. So at any phase of the recruiting process, show your desire, show your love of the game. Show that you’re wanting to put forth the extra effort. They will look at somebody who’s shy. I was, I grew up real shy, right? And so I, I, it’s great that I could work with athletes and coach them through this because they’ll take that. Is not interested. They’re not interested in my school. So I highly encourage athletes to, you know, to realize, yes, you’re still being judged and it could be on social media. They’re looking for red flags in the third phase of the recruiting process to say how we’ll move forward with the other 29 prospects. So how you who you hang around with in high school will tell them the type of app, the type of friends you’ll have in college when you’re under their roof and you have so much more freedom under their under their roof in college. So that’s really the weeding out. Face it, all these athletes can play at our level, but do they fit our culture, do they do they fit? Now, I told you we’ve been doing this for 44 years, say 41 or 42 of those of those years this college track has looked the same. Couple years ago, you got to imagine that coach now gets to walk down those imaginary bleachers. They could open up a side gate. And I tell my athletes you feel really good about your situation. You, the coach says. You are an offer-able kind of kid. We beat up 90% of the competition, started with 300. You’re about 30. You’ve invited campus a couple times, Coach says. We may even be writing up some things right off Able kind of kid. That side gate opens up fresh legs come in to compete for that scholarship. Ask kids who is it? Oftentimes they don’t know. Right. I think a lot of the folks watching this may not know. I tell them they’re 2-3 years older, they’re stronger, and it to your point, they’re eating healthier than you because they’re on a college campus. If you play for our team, this is the training table you eat from. They’re eating health. This is a perfect opportunity when I’m sitting across from an athlete. But interviewing them and introducing this college recruiting process to them, I’m watching mom and dad’s reaction too. And I’m asking the kid. I guarantee you that college athlete eats healthier than you. And mom and dad go, yeah, yeah, right. They just don’t know. And so they’re eating healthier. They’re at a collegiate level already and have been successful. It’s the transfer athletes. So no matter what relationship you’ve built with this coach, they’re essentially on the hot seat to win this season, every season they’re on the hot seat you. How to win to keep this this job, right? So I had one athlete say, yeah, but the transfer athlete that’s coming in to finish this race against me, they may have one year of eligibility left. I have 4. Doesn’t matter, right? If that athlete, that transfer athletes bigger, faster, stronger, more experienced than you like. Consider yourself as a sophomore in high school, you competing against an eighth grader. I mean, you’ve learned from different coaches over the last three years over that that other athlete, you’re just more mentally more have a higher IQ for your sport than you would have three years ago. So I think that that really kind of comes to realization that no matter what relationships you’ve built with that coach. Over a couple years, maybe you’ve run this race for a couple of years you feel really good about it just takes 1 transfer athlete to be introduced to this college coach. Let’s say they can help me win next year over taking a risk on a 17 year old high schooler that close and she needs some development or he needs some development but. Does that make sense?
Phase 4 So yeah, the fourth phase is just the offer phase, right? So what I tell athletes is let’s say five of those athletes finish the race. I mean, still not guaranteed, right? There’s one offer that’s given away. So, they’ll just ask this athlete, maybe they’re transfer athlete. You know, we like you. We want to offer you. Here’s the breakdown of what’s going to cost. Um, give us a month, you know, we’d like to know within a month. So they, they turn it down, they go to offer number 23. You may be here, but it just takes one in that process to take that spot that you feel felt so good about away from you. So I, I, I say this not to scare. Individuals. It’s the reality of the recruiting world. So I tell athletes. And this is this is where we come in, right? I tell athletes, I need you in front of 30 schools to make the math work, where you walk away with one offer. In the third phase. You need to be in front of at least 150 schools getting your metrics out there saying, yes, I play soccer in the state of Washington, but I traveled to Georgia. I, I traveled to Indiana and play soccer, right? And then the first phase 300 just to make the math work where you walk away with an offer. So there’s a lot that goes into it, but yeah, we definitely talk about. What they need to be putting out there. Umm, I I love it when I run across an athlete at a tournament, Nick and they’re rest of their teams eating chips and you know, just all the all the stuff that’s sold at the at the place and she’s bringing in, you know. Fresh vegetables and things that are gonna fuel her by I love it right. So I’m telling athletes instead of a red flag that’s on social media, maybe we need to be taking pictures and video of us just sitting, you know, chilling at the game and eating healthy right and that that just begins to plant seeds in these college coaches minds that. OK, she’s doing the right things now that we need her doing with us. So be a great prospect for us.
Corey Else : So those are the four stages. It’s not to scare you, but it’s changed. So older sister has gone through this process. OK, she did not compete for that scholarship against transfer athlete. And so it, it also those Division One, division two schools are looking at the transfer portal. I mean, any article you read, these coaches will say it would be dumb of me not to, to, to take a look at these, these transfer athletes that have this upper leg on our competition on the high school athlete. Before the before the high school athletes. So things are changing. My advice would be to make sure you’re with somebody that takes this as a full time job to make sure that you’re getting recruited because it is a full time job athletes to work with me. Choose to work with because we are an offer only organization um. Their focus is to focus on school and athletics and, and responding to college coaches when I, when I make the introduction. But umm, and then of course, some, somebody who’s guiding them through nutrition, somebody who’s guiding them through ACT and SAT prep, which is, which is something that we do. But yeah, those are 4 stages and that’s why it’s important to. To get in front of as many schools as you possibly can, you go through a lot of those. But ultimately we want multiple yeses and we want to make an educated decision. It’s not we got one offer, we’re going to move forward with it. Have to, right? If you want to play your sport in college or maybe you have 5 to choose from. And then you can, you can kind of decide from there what’s the best fit for you and your family, Um.
Corey Else : And then we actually help athletes through the transfer portal as well. So we put it on his head. Now you’re in the transfer portal. For whatever reason, that fit is no longer your fit for you and your family. You know the transfer portal and then we’re there to help you. So when I work with an athlete, I’m, I might pick up a 8th or 9th grader. And my relationship with them my recruiting advisement is for eight years. Through high school and of course through college. And I love to be able to point them in the right direction on, on things that I’m not an expert in. So leave the coaching to the coaches, leave the, the nutrition to the nutrition and the sports performance. Sports performance. So that’s where we, that’s how we get involved.
Nick Lemke: Yeah. I like, so you give the example of when you bring in the transfer portal, like you talk about 8th grade, junior year. I also think about like when we think about like sports, like pro sports, like when you, I mean, a lot of people compare transfer portal to free agency, but you look at, you know, when you, when it comes to like which college you want to go to if you’ve selected. About 10 years old that you want to go to Colorado and you wanna go play football for Deon Sanders. Yeah, but he’s obsessed with, you know, like transfer portal or whatever it might be. Or maybe that year he is like, or I mean, we look at like, you know, Seattle sports, for example. Pete Carroll loved his young people. So if you know. If you’re a young person, great, you have good luck there. You’re not likely to get some 34 year old, you know, veteran coming in there. And I feel like same thing with college. And but then you have like somebody like the Mariners who are cheap and don’t want to spend on anything. So it’s like you kind of you have to know the coaches I feel like too a little bit.
Corey Else : Yeah, I encourage all of my athletes to build relationships with the coach that that is who is making the decision, right. So, you know, I’m from Oklahoma, I graduated from Oklahoma State. I am an OSU Cowboy right through and through. Yes, I have athletes that go out and golf at, at OU and, and things like that, which, you know. It is what it is. I’ll actually put Boomer Sooner out there every once in a while. But yeah, there could be coach turnover between the time that you start your recruiting processes. So yeah, it’s developing relationships with coaches. Connecting with them on social media because they will carry their recruiting list to the new school, right. If you, if you can play at the new school, you have an in right. So even I, I tell my 8th graders, my 9th graders, you actually have a really unique opportunity here to. Get in front of and not downplaying anybody who’s a watcher from South Dakota, but I use South Dakota a lot. You may not want to play, let’s say golf, right? It’s a it’s a warm weather sport. You may not want to golf in South Dakota, OK, but that coach in two or three years could develop. To be the recruiting coordinator, assistant coach or head coach at D2 school, that was your, your dream, your dream school in Missouri, right? So yeah, absolutely. And, and, and you said sometimes coaches change their mind as far as what they’re looking for. And this whole recruiting, I mean, all the changes. With the recruiting news are gonna change coaches decisions too so the Deon Sanders that um. May have had certain requirements a year ago or it’s going to have different requirements this year. So yeah, we’re excited to have Colorado and the Big 12 and see how that how that plays out. But I’m going to state Oklahoma State has a returning offensive line and a. Running back this, that’s going to make some waves this year for sure. So yeah, now it’ll be, this will be an interesting year for, I think sports in general.
Nick Lemke: And I think that’s something too. What do you feel like, you know, for those? You know, I know a lot of athletes like I wanna play D1, like they’re all about D1. Yeah. How do you feel like #1? All of the movements and everything that’s kind of gone on like, you know, again, Big 10, Big 12, how do you feel like that’s that factors into that? And then also again, the transfer portal piece, you know, getting those opportunities.
Corey Else : You know, and, and it’s unfortunate and in a lot of ways, I know like with the conference realignment and I don’t get into this too much. I’m not, I’m not an expert in this in my own personal opinion, but the decisions are made on the football level, right? I can’t imagine some of these baseball teams and their travel schedules and. Continuing to be a student, you know, student athlete at the collegiate level and keeping up with their nutrition and keeping up their sleep. I mean, Can you imagine just all the travel that’s involved with some of these, some of these conference changes and realignment? And then from a Division One level, it’s just it’s getting harder and harder. And there’s new news out there, it hasn’t quite been passed yet about increases in scholarships, increases in UM. Roster spots, you know, I’m not sure there’s anybody out there this super happy about those decisions. It’s kind of out of nowhere. What I keep thinking is they’re preparing for some future decision, right? It doesn’t make a lot of sense right now. I think what a lot of our athletes here is. Bigger roster spots, right? So now there’s so many more roster spots at the Division One level for volleyball. But we gotta be able to fund it, right? So, um. And then the money spread out differently. We’re actually seeing decisions. It hasn’t even been passed yet, but we’re trying to figure out how this is going to impact college recruiting. Of course, right. So are there going to be some, some 2025s that aren’t grandfathered in and they’ve accepted an offered Division One school. They may get a call saying, you know. The offer doesn’t stand anymore, right? Umm, we do think that there will be. It’s just it’s harder and harder to play the Division One level. I look, I love a kid that’s has those high aspirations. It’s also really important to take a realistic look at our abilities, right, and realize we’re not just competing. I’m from Oklahoma, so we’re not just competing for a scholarship at the University of Oklahoma. You have Florida athletes, you have international athletes, depending on what sport we’re talking about, all competing for that. So you have blinders on. Thinking I’ve got this in the bag, you know, I’ve got relationships. I I go to their camp every year. They know my name when I step on campus. Yeah, that could be the case. It just takes it just takes one that you didn’t see coming to take that that offer from you. And so to my, my best advice is to make as easy as possible or that college coach recruit you, but also as many as you can get through a lot of those develop relationships with a lot of yeses so that ultimately we have multiple scholarship offers in the end like that. Yeah. No, it’s keep, keep those options open. It’s great to have that set on Stanford or Oklahoma or whatever, but also, yeah. Still have those options there so that you have somewhere to go. And then who knows, in few years you can you know, yeah. So worst advice I hear sometimes. And so I’m glad we could we could we could say this, but don’t take your top ten and just hammer your top 10 prospect colleges, right? That’s a losing strategy. Every person I. Unless you are the next greatest thing to come out of your sport, that is not a good strategy. That is a losing strategy. So and it also comes down to we just talked about coach turnover. So literally, yeah, that is your dream to go play for Stanford coach. That coach may not be there by the time. It’s time for you to to get recruited. So love the ambition, love the dreams, continue to have those dreams, but also there’s gotta be times throughout your process that you take a realistic expectation of your abilities. And what’s great is with an athlete that we work with. Our coaches now tell us back, yes, he’s the division two. Tell it right. This is this is his fit you, if you don’t put yourself in line yourself with the right people. You may never know what your fit is, but you’ve got to broadcast it out there. You’ve got to hear back and say, OK, June 15th, that’s a lot of our sports deadlines between sophomore and junior year to, to, to receive a phone call that came and went. And I’m not saying you didn’t get a call on June 15th. You’re not Division One talent or Division 2. Ballot, but, um, the longer that goes where we haven’t gotten those calls, OK, that’s not that’s not our fit. Hopefully if you’re working with somebody like myself, we know well in advance of that date whether or not you’re fit at that level so that we can prepare for phone calls on June 5th. OK, that’s good.
Nick Lemke: So, so obviously we have to factor in talent and things like that, but what do you feel like are some of the biggest characteristics that college coaches, especially when we talk about again, the highest level college coaches, what do you feel like are some consensus things they look for?
Corey Else : You know, everybody wants to be wanted, right? You may be the best football program in in the country year after year, but unless you show a desire to be consistently and communication and be responsive right when I take an athlete through an evaluation process. I’m, I’m looking, I’m judging them immediately. Are you doing the things that I asked you to do or are you doing it timely? If they aren’t, that’s probably not a prospect for me. So same thing with a college coach. If they’re asking them to, to perform things or they’re asking them to get a nutritionist in high school, they’re asking them to. You know, follow this this summer workout program before you show up on campus. I’ve had athletes that I know of that didn’t follow it to a T and coach noticed. So I think, you know, just coachability and if you’re playing at the highest level, you probably are very coachable. But there’s a lot of athletes that just kind of skim by and this isn’t like, this isn’t 100% their thing. They’re interested in who they’re dating at the time or, you know, just making wrong decisions, right, making wrong decisions that aren’t down that path that a college coach would expect you to be. Taking umm, I think that’s probably something that will come out, whether it’s directly on social media, realizing that you’re at an underage drinking party, even though you’re not partaking, you’re in, you’re in the same vicinity, right? Or indirectly where like I said, you show up to college and you didn’t perform your summer workout like you were told at . They’re going to know. So I think that’s probably the biggest thing that I look for. We talked about at the beginning consistency, but coachability. Will they listen to what I have to say and will they do it in a timely manner that keeps them on track for coming and playing for us?
Nick Lemke: Yeah. To give an example of a kid that, you know, again, I think about when I think about this, So Drew, he’s one of my baseball players and he was 6 foot or 61140 and was a freshman year. And then the coaches, UW and Oregon, you know, coaches were telling him at certain things. This was before the, you know, before the rule changes. They were telling him that he needed to get was that he was 2026. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So yeah, it was before all that change. And, you know, they’re telling them, you know, you need to get bigger. You need to get stronger. Like you’re looking good, but you need this. And he went out and did it. And then now they’re singing. Like, OK, like they’re, they’re making, you know, and he, he also expanded his college reach with that by getting bigger, stronger, by being able to hit the ball harder, doing all those things. So, you know, it’s yeah, when you’re told something from a coach, whether that be a high school coach or a college coach, like, hey, you need to improve on this. Like go improve on it. Go do it.
Corey Else : And then what I would follow up with is if I was that athlete, I’d say, coach, you encouraged me to do this right. Part of it is when I sit down with the family, yeah, mom and dad raised and be humble and and for their game to shine. But this you’re you’re competing for scholarship against 10s and hundreds of thousands of athletes. So you put yourself out there and say coach because of what you said. I was, you know. Are now desire to to play for you and that’s why I did what I did. I think it’s really important to communicate that, um. You had an impact on what you said to me and now I’m doing it. And then same thing. I mean, broadcast it out there to the other side of the US. If you’re, if you’re willing to travel and you’re not, you don’t have Division One, you know, D1 itis, you know, like maybe if I don’t play D1, I’m not, I’m not going to play my sport in college. If you’re open minded. Taking a realistic look at your abilities but also willing to travel. It shouldn’t be just a kid in Washington getting local looks. I mean, like you said, his abilities, his his work ethic, his consistency to making himself better and helped him project even further out. That’s really important. Not being shy. Yes, we want you to be humble. In some certain situations, but you’re not competing for scholarships. So put yourself out there, tell them, tell them what you’re doing on a daily basis. Continue to update coaches on your recruiting process. And again, it’s just, it’s, it’s as many coaches as you possibly can and it takes, it takes somebody to work with you in a lot of ways to do that otherwise. You just added another full time job on on top of your schoolwork and your and your sports to try and do it yourself. It makes it really, really difficult.
Nick Lemke: Any last things you want to leave the audience before I ask you to, you know, share your contact info,
Corey Else : You know, the moment you decide as an athlete that you want to. Play college sports and it may, it may, it may not come at all, but it may come later in in your stages, the earlier you decide you want to be a college athlete. We’ve got to build the team around you. We just, we just talked about it. It is a full time job. So if it’s somebody there, local coach, recruiting coordinator, look for somebody who has the experience, look for somebody who has time as a as a full time job to help you get recruited. On the flip side, you don’t want to be on the list with 10s of thousands of other athletes when there’s 6000 roster spots available for your graduating class. College coaches won’t filter through a lot of athletes that can never play at their level to find you who maybe can play at their level So. Um, there’s just two small side and there’s also one where you don’t want to be on the list with everybody else because it’s open enrollment. You can enroll for that, you know, seek somebody out. You know, if somebody did want to reach out to me, I would take them through the same evaluation process. The college coach would. I’m watching their film first before we move, move forward. Or live in person. We’ll go through an evaluation and an interview stage to see if they are truly a recruitable athlete. And that’s I think what college coaches appreciate from NSR and from our scouts that are on the ground watching talent throughout our 44 years. Is we bring them quality athletes that that can play at that level. And so we’ve got a pretty high success rate. I think it’s 95% of the athletes that work, work as an NSR athlete will go off and get multiple scholarship offers to go off of playing college. Yeah. Somebody wanted to reach out to me, Nick, through Instagram. I think it’s NSR_college_scout, UM, probably the best way to reach out to me or I’ll, I’ll give out my cell phone number. That’s right. So you can text me, text “scout me” so that I know that it’s a new entry level prospect tech scout me to 918-625-4011.
Nick Lemke: OK, and then for parents too, he’s on Facebook, Corey Else NSR. you can find him on and that’s how we got connected.
Corey Else : That’s why it’s happening. Yep, Yep. So this goes on Facebook. Yeah, Corey else NSR and same with X I think it’s Corey Else_NSR. So you can find me in multiple ways, but yeah, would love to. Connect with athletes all around the globe. They have a desire to play at the next level and. We’ll take them through a true evaluation process and, and, and be realistic about their expectations to see if they’d be a good fit for us.
Nick Lemke: Yeah. And if you’re in Oklahoma, check out pro day athlete development.
Corey Else : Yep, Yep. So product development on Facebook, pro sports, I think on Instagram, jump higher, run faster. Be more powerful in your overhand throw and and your kick using those core rotational muscles. Those are our three primary areas of improvement that that we know college coaches look for, especially if you want to play at the next level.
Nick Lemke: Yeah, yeah. So Corey though, thank you so much. There is like so much that. I feel like covered around the recruiting process, but then, yeah, some of that intangibles, that consistency, those are consistent. Yeah, consistency, a lot of those kind of things that we really gotta emphasize. So thanks again for helping on today. You bet,
Corey Else : Nick, Appreciate the opportunity, the platform, of course, yeah.
And then again, athletes like take this stuff. Seriously, if you really want to play at that college level, like take action on it, you know, do the things, whether it be on your own and you know, that’s a lot of work, but do it on your own. If you if that’s where you’re at or you know, hire somebody who you know is going to help you get to that next level. But otherwise, keep subscribe to the podcast and keep striving. For greatness.