Resources
The library, the calendar, and no hype.
8 guides with their sources, four dates that matter, and four straight answers about what we do not know. Nothing on this page is a teaser for something you have to pay for.
The recruiting library
8 guides · every figure sourcedWhen a college coach is actually allowed to reply
Silence in March is usually a rule, not a rejection. The date that changes everything is June 15 after sophomore year — and it is not the same date in every division.
Read it →A roster opening is room, not just a departure
Every program loses seniors. That is not an opening. An opening is who leaves at your position, against how deep the squad already is behind you.
Read it →Reach, Target and Likely describe YOUR list, not the country
A top-25 program can be a Likely and a regional D3 can be a Reach. The band is about how you match, not how good the school is.
Read it →The transfer portal, in numbers we can actually see
Some programs rebuild from the portal every year and some almost never touch it. The difference is readable from their rosters, and it decides where a transfer should spend their thirty days.
Read it →Do players actually stay in that program?
High turnover can mean playing time is available. It can also mean people leave unhappy. The number is worth knowing before you commit four years to it.
Read it →Division I is not the only good answer
There are four four-year levels and two governing bodies. Sorting them by prestige is how families end up with a list of nine schools that will never reply.
Read it →What a first email to a coach should actually contain
A coach opens it on a phone between sessions. Everything that is not about their program is costing you the part that is.
Read it →What 'a level up' actually means in youth soccer
A better badge is not the same as a better team. Age-group results tell you which is which, and they are public.
Read it →Dated to your player
The four dates that matter
The same milestones the app puts on a player’s own timeline, dated to their graduation year.
- 1June 15 after sophomore year
The first day a coach can reply to you
Before that date, coaches in NCAA Division I and II can read your email and are not allowed to answer it. That is why the email goes BEFORE the date, not after: your film is already in the inbox on the morning they are finally free to reply.
- 2Junior year
The year that decides most of it
The camps you attend this year are the ones staffs remember. Pick a small number at schools that are genuinely realistic and go to those. Four camps you were right for beats twelve you were not.
- 3November of junior year
Unofficial visits open up
An unofficial visit is one you pay for yourselves — you can make as many as you like, and you do not need an invitation. Watch a training session, not just a game day: you learn more about how a staff treats players in an hour of training than in ninety minutes of a match they are trying to win.
- 4February of senior year
The late window nobody tells you about
Rosters move again after signing day — the date the first wave of players formally commits. Division II, Division III and NAIA staffs are still filling out the group they bring in that autumn, and this is when a well-timed email lands on a coach who suddenly has a hole to fill.
Counted, not claimed
What we measure, and what we won’t say
Where we don’t hold something, the product says so rather than filling the gap. These are the four places it matters most.
- What we will not tell you
- That there is a roster spot when there isn't. If nobody is graduating in your position group — the two or three players a coach would swap you in for, not the whole squad — the product says so and refuses to write an email claiming an opening. That rule is in the code, not in a policy document.
- What we do not know
- Registration deadlines for ID camps — the identification camps a college runs on its own campus, where its staff is the staff watching. We hold camp DATES, from each school. The cutoff to register lives on the camp's own page and changes without notice, so every planning date we show is labelled as our estimate and never as their deadline.
- A number every recruiting site still gets wrong
- Per-sport scholarship caps. The old “9.9 men's / 14 women's” figures stopped applying to opted-in Division I schools in July 2025, under the court settlement that reshaped college sports funding — so anyone still quoting them is quoting a dead rule. We quote none, anywhere.
- Who sends the email
- You do. Startline drafts from real facts about that program and your player, and then it stops. We have never sent a message to a coach on a family's behalf and the product has no code path that could.
These dates, on your player's own calendar
Every milestone above is generic until it has a graduation year attached to it. Put one in and the app dates all four, then ranks the schools they apply to.