The Recruit-Me Story
by Jon Fugler

Motivated by Financial Necessity

Recruit-Me came out of necessity. I remember sitting in the bleachers with about 200 other parents and high school students. We were all there to hear a man speak about the world of athletic scholarships. My twin boys were high school juniors at the time, and excelling in baseball.  I knew very little about baseball scholarships, except what I read in the paper from time to time. What I did know was that we couldn't afford college for both boys at once. We needed scholarships.

This speaker was good. Very good. By the time he was done, I was one of the first in line to buy his book. I received a call a few days later from a recruiting service he was associated with. My wife and I met with the service shortly after that, and we were on the edge of spending about $2,000 to get this “recruiting” process started.

That’s how I was drawn into my education in the athletic scholarship and recruiting world. Well, the beginning of my education at least. As it turned out, we ended up signing on with a different service and a consultant, and paid them $2,000 or so.

I felt it was a good and necessary investment then, and even to this day I still believe it was. But I would have decided differently if I'd had more choices. It was a lot to spend, and we really couldn't afford it. But I did not know much about this recruiting world. I was unsure of myself, and I knew I couldn't afford not to get athletic scholarships.

As it turned out, both boys did end up getting fully paid educations. I now know I could have done it less expensively - if I'd known then what I know now.

Consultant and Experience Built My Expertise

The entire recruiting process lasted about a year for us, and in that time I became an “expert,” compared to where I had begun. I had the help of our consultant and service, as well as a college coach that gave us solid input and made some key calls to other coaches.

The whole thing was fascinating. It was a journey that had a very happy ending. Both sons received full-ride scholarships to play baseball at the Division I level. The return on our investment of time and money was fantastic!

Although we had a good consultant, a service, and help from a college coach, we had to do a lot of the work ourselves. And that’s where the greatest learning came in. You know how it is: you learn more when you do something than when you just read about it. And we did plenty.

We wrote the letters. We made and received the phone calls. We made the videos. We responded to the coaches. We negotiated the scholarships. Indeed, we went through the trenches in this process. And we came out with a deep understanding of the whole athletic recruitment process.

Shortly after this was over and the boys were on their way, I had other parents and friends asking me for help with their kids or their friends’ kids. I simply told them what we had done, and sent them samples of everything I had used in the recruiting process.

They liked what I sent them, and I was able to help a few people.

Then it dawned on me. It does not take $1,000 to successfully go through the recruiting process. Most parents don’t have $1,000 extra when they're preparing for college costs. The good news: you don't really need to spend this much! If you are properly guided to follow a few steps, you can spend a fraction of that and get results yourself. By the way, I discovered that you're going to do a lot of the work even if you use a consultant.

The Recruit-Me System Emerges

That’s how Recruit-Me was born. I partnered with Ron Johnston, and we took everything I learned and all the materials I developed, putting them into one easy-to-follow system that will get a student-athlete noticed by multiple schools. We priced it so anyone could afford it, and made it available online so it could be used by anyone anywhere.

Help Yourself to an Athletic Scholarship

You can do this yourself. Yes, you have work to do, and Recruit-Me takes you through the right work so you don't waste time and money. And speaking of money, it saves you tons of money since you can get recruited without paying thousands of dollars to a service or consultant. I don’t want to cut down either one, because both had a part in getting our twin sons’ fully paid educations while they pursued baseball. But I do want to provide you with a more affordable alternative that gets the job done with our step-by-step help.

Ron and I had fun developing this, and we look forward to making it even better as time goes along. It will always be simple, because we believe in that. And thousands of families have proven that it works!

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Meet Jon Fugler

Jon is co-author of the Recruit-Me Athletic Scholarship System. He's father of three students simultaneously in college, with twin sons who both made their college entry as student- athletes.  He created the Recruit-Me System based on his own experiences in successfully walking with his sons through the athletic recruiting and scholarship process.  As a consequence his sons received fully paid educations at a Division I university. 

Jon has been a life-long athlete and sports fan, and he played Division I baseball as a pitcher. He's has been involved in coaching youth sports from the grade school to the high school level.  As a result of his experience and success, he has taken other parents and athletes through the Recruit-Me System.  Jon and his wife, Noonie, are both Radio DJs! They reside in their now-empty nest in California, where Jon is Executive Director and General Manager of three California radio stations.

Meet Ron Johnston

Ron is co-author of the Recruit-Me Athletic Scholarship System. He's father of two adult children, both of whom attended private colleges on scholarships. He and his wife, Debbie, live on the beautiful California Central Coast.

Ron has been a life-long computer technologist and businessman, working at Apple on the early design team of the Macintosh. He's an Internet business pioneer, partnering with a friend to launch Parable Interactive, a company that provides online shopping services for hundreds of Christian stores and ministries. In 2003 he partnered with Jon to create the step-by-step, systematic method that became the Recruit-Me Athletic Scholarship System. Over the years as a recruiting coach he has helped tens of thousands of families succeed in their quests for athletic scholarships.