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The Football Recruiting Book has been written to inspire and inform. It is your one-stop-shop for everything you need to know about the recruiting process and how to best market yourself to college coaches.
Chapter 1: Recruiting Eligibility
Chapter 2: Recruiting Process
Chapter 3: Financial Aid
Chapter 4: What to Expect
Chapter 5: How to Prepare for the Process
Chapter 6: High School Coaches
Index
Step #1: Read it all!
You should approach the first time reading this book as if it were a novel. Do not spend too much time trying to understand the rules and regulations. Pay attention to what the overall theme of each chapter is trying to convey through the Chapter Introduction and Section Overviews. Questions have been added to highlight the most import topics in each chapter.
Step #2: Know the important stuff!
You should review the information detailed in the Section Overviews of each chapter after you have read the book in its entirety. Familiarize yourself with terminology, important dates and academic requirements. Know the differences between the governing bodies and the opportunities they present. At this stage, you should have the confidence to speak intelligently on the overall recruiting process with high school and college coaches.
Step #3: Use on a daily basis!
The book itself should be used as a reference throughout the recruiting process to help answer any questions you may have. Use the provided checklists to track your progress. Familiarize yourself with the recruiting calendars so that you know what to expect. Utilize the online college directory to contact college coaches. Make use of the online core course calculator to help determine your NCAA eligibility. And refer to the terms and definitions to continually refresh your understanding of the terminology.
Lee BrushMr. Brush currently serves as the Executive director for the Arizona Football Coaches Association (AzFCA). He continues to lead the coaching association in developing numerous services directly benefiting the student athlete while alleviating recruiting pressures placed on the high school football coaches. It is his personal goal to improve the coaching profession by using Arizona as the model for coaching associations across the nation.
Mr. Brush built his relationship with the coaches in Arizona through his efforts as the co-founder of the Life Education Through Sports (LETS) non-profit organization. LETS was founded for the purpose of teaching life skills through the venue of athletic camps, clinics, seminars and mentoring programs. Lets mission is to use sports as a foundation to develop student athletes mentally, physically and spiritually.
Mr. Brush has been holding recruiting seminars, coaching high school football and training professional athletes in Arizona since 2001. Prior to arriving in Arizona, he was the secondary coach, weight coach and recruiting coordinator for the Wingate University football team (NCAA Division II) in North Carolina.
After completing his athletic eligibility in college at Purdue University, he served as the defensive student assistant and academic tutor for the football team. He graduated from Purdue University with a Bachelor of Science degree in engineering. While attending Purdue, he started three seasons in the defensive secondary and led the Gentle Giants volunteer program in which college athletes helped teach basic educational skills to underprivileged children in area elementary schools.
Bob BrushUntil his retirement from college football, Coach Brush held head coaching positions at Wingate University in North Carolina and Georgetown University in Kentucky. Preceding Brush's head coaching positions, he was the defensive coordinator at Wake Forest, Tulsa, Virginia Tech, Vanderbilt, Duke and Maryland.
During his thirty-five year career, Brush held NCAA board positions, received national rankings in total defense and appeared in five bowl games with four different teams. He assisted six head coaches who became conference coach of the year or national coach of the year. He coached eighteen players who played in the NFL, one NFL Hall of Fame member, recruited nine All-Americans and thirty-four academic all-conference players. He led major fundraising efforts for athletic scholarships and facilities and directed extensive recruiting efforts in North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, Maryland, Washington D.C., New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Texas, Oklahoma, Kentucky, Ohio, Indiana, Southern California and Kansas.