by Avi - Today is September 1st. It's a big day in recruiting land. Especially for rising juniors, everything is about to change.

Why? At long last, college coaches are allowed to email you back!!

So what should you expect? A flood of emails from college coaches? Not necessarily. It's not like coaches have been composing hundreds of emails to juniors over the last few months, just to be ready to pound away on the send button at 12:01 on September 1st.

Instead, you need to ramp up your correspondence to coaches. You may not hear back from them immediately. In fact, it might take 2-3 emails to get a response.

Here's what you should say

To get a response, you have to include 1 thing in your emails: a "call to action." This is a specific request or question that you pose to a college coach that makes it ridiculously easy for him to respond.

Rather than having to think long and hard about what he should say to you, you want the coach to be able to press "Reply" without really thinking, and write you a quick response.

Here are some great calls to action:

• Are you going to Tournament X?


• Coach Y at Southern College has seen me play. Do you know him?


• Is there anything else I need to send you at this point?


• Can you please point me towards a player who I can ask a few questions about being a student there?

Even a one or two sentence email is something you should be fired up about getting back. A call to action in your email will dramatically increase the likelihood that you'll get a response.

How's this for a call to action? Sign in and email a coach in under 2 minutes.