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📋Month-by-month recruiting checklist by grad year

🏫NCAA & NAIA rule change alerts

✉️Coach outreach templates that get responses

💰Scholarship negotiation tactics

🎙️Coach's Corner — insider quotes from real coaches

🔗Links to the month's top recruiting guides

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Vol. 1 · Issue 10

October 2026

Latest

Official Visits, Verbal Commitments & Your October Recruiting Checklist

This month: how to evaluate official visit invitations, what a verbal commitment actually means, updating your highlight film with fall footage, and grade-by-grade action steps for October.

October 1, 20263 stories

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Vol. 1 · Issue 9

September 2026

Fall Outreach, Smarter School Lists & Your September Recruiting Checklist

This month: how to turn fall competition into useful coach updates, evaluate your school list honestly, and keep academics aligned with recruiting goals.

September 2, 20263 stories

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Vol. 1 · Issue 7

July 2026

Transfer Portal Deadline, Scholarship Negotiation & the Top 10 Recruiting Mistakes

This month: the August 1 D1 Early Decision window, how to negotiate your scholarship offer, sport-specific recruiting timelines, and the 10 mistakes that cost families offers.

July 1, 20264 stories

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