College recruiting is a business and I would really tell parents and athletes, alike, to treat it as such.

The more talented a young man is, the earlier the recruiting process usually begins.

By taking a business-like approach, the student-athletes and their parents will be in control of the outcome and that's how it should be.

It is hard for an athlete to standout through an email, especially when his email gets mixed in with the emails coming from recruits that think they can play somewhere they really can't. That makes filtering through recruit emails an almost impossible task.

College recruiting is a business and I would really tell parents and athletes, alike, to treat it as such.

The student-athlete should control everything that happens. From figuring out what kind of a degree they want to what type of a program they want to play for, they should control it all.

Social media has a way of revealing someone and can be very telling.