The 2020 National Student-Athlete Coronavirus & Recruiting Study
We need your help in putting together accurate recommendations for recruiting during the upcoming 2020-2021 school year. Here's what you can do:
After leading conversations with several national coaching organizations, athletic departments and college coaches, we’re finding there’s a need for a deeper understanding of how the crisis that our country and the world of college athletics is enduring is going to affect decision making among the athletes that you’re recruiting, as well as the athletes that you currently have on your roster.
To get the most accurate data and recommendations to college coaches as we head towards the fall and the 2020-2021 recruiting year, we’re asking for your help.
We have developed two short focus group study national online surveys that we would love to have your team, and your recruits, involved in helping with. They should only take about 10 minutes for your current athletes and recruits to complete, but will provide all coaches with a wealth of information when it comes to how best to communicate with student-athletes heading into the fall, and (hopefully) a return to your regular campus life.
The more coaches that participate and ask their student-athletes to complete the short survey, the better we’ll be able to advise you and focus on topics that are most important to your team and future recruits.
Here are the links you can copy and paste to send, one link for your recruits and another for your current team of returning student-athletes:
The link to copy, paste and email to your recruits: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/2020NatlRecruitingStudy
The link to copy, paste and email to your current returning student-athletes: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/2020StudentAthleteStudy
If possible, use a version of this text to send to each group separately with their specific link, along with anything else you feel would be appropriate to tell them:
Please take 10 minutes to give your feedback in a national study going on right now with college student-athletes and prospects who are being recruited. It is focused on how this current crisis is affecting the way student-athletes are making their decisions, and gives suggestions for how college coaches can be better leaders for you as you continue your athletic career.
Your answers are anonymous, and your feedback will be read by college coaches around the country. This is your opportunity to voice your opinion on topics that you want college coaches to understand are important to you as a student-athlete.
We hope to publish the results in the coming weeks, in order to give you a better idea of what is on the mind of your recruits and how to adjust your recruiting conversations to better connect with them.
Thank you for taking a few minutes to get this out to your team and your recruits, Coach! We’ll let you know when the final report is ready, and get you access to the results as soon as possible.
We promise to put together a comprehensive report, along with recommended strategies, that you can use to be a more successful recruiter this upcoming year.