NCSA Next College Student Athlete Reviews

Pros

The mission in helping student athletes go on to continue their educational and athletic career at the collegiate level is second to none. The people and teammates are exceptional. I've been part of this team for 5+ years, I have a tremendous amount of pride being part of this organization. Leadership is very receptive to feedback from the team, and there are countless opportunities to build and refine your professional skillset.

Advice to Management

Continue to keep an open door policy on feedback from teammates, it's been extremely beneficial for maintaining a positive culture and cooperative work environment.

Pros

Great team atmosphere and culture! NCSA has created a great compensation structure that allows you to manage your own business all while controlling how much money you make.

Advice to Management

NCSA created a clear career path and allowed me to manage my own opportunities. Management did a great job of laying out goals, expectations and gave me the opportunity for career development. I am a former college athlete and the great environment that NCSA has created here in the Las Vegas office gave me a sense of being part of a team again all while allowing me to still be competitive in a sales atmosphere. In less than 2 years I was promoted to a mentor and as I approach my third year with NCSA I have been promoted to Team Lead here in the Las Vegas office. The company is enthusiastic about continuing to grow the office which will open up a wide variety of opportunities for current and future employees.

Pros

Can help some families and student athletes.

Working from home.

Compensation can be very good.

Health benefits are relatively solid.

Advice to Management

Be transparent. Tell your people when leads are going to be tough. Tell your people that they are doing another Upgrade Day not because “RSs and families are asking for it,” (which is a lie) but because the company is not hitting goal and it is essential for us to succeed.

Create leadership pathways. The current model of one VP and one RM per team of 35+ is not feasible for success. Too much leadership capital is expended with this set up. There is currently nothing in place to promote from within.

You have a serious issue with front line personnel turnover. Especially high-efficiency performers. Do you not want to keep them? Do you not care if they stay or leave? Offer merit/salary increases and/or extra days off during the week for high-efficiency performers.

Get high-efficiency performers higher-quality lead sources and allow them to open less meeting slots if they want. Too many higher-ups force their people to open more and more meeting slots every week. Don’t tell your people that they should “own their calendar” and turn around and tell them what times they should have and hours they should operate within.

Stop over-coaching. For example, the RF Call will introduce a concept like “mindset,” and then front line personnel will hear about “mindset” several times through emails from all the higher-ups for the REST OF THE WEEK. It wears your people out.

Stop trying to be a S100+ million company. Stop hiring. Cut low performers (including some of the higher-ups), and operate efficiently as a robust $70 to $90+ million company. The current set up is taking money away from the front-line people and devaluing the NCSA brand. More and more unqualified student-athletes are being accepted into the network on paid memberships. This means success rates are significantly lowering, and the product’s effectiveness will be diluted. You can’t help everyone.

Pros

There was free food sometimes.

Pros

1. A young and fun culture. Competitive atmosphere, turkey bowl, fun holiday parties.
2. Ability to work from home.

Advice to Management

Pay your people better so that your top salespeople don't leave for better opportunities. Stop praying on the hopes and dreams of children as a business practice.

Remodel your business model from a bait and switch to a more transparent sale. They way NCSA is handling new business now is UNETHICAL.

Pros

Good job for younger kids just out of school, good environment, fast paced, benefits, get to talk sports/find out about kids looking to play in college, can make solid money if you're on the phone all day and work over 40 hours per week

Pros

-Initial 2 weeks of training was great. Fast paced, learn a lot, meet new friends
-As others have noted, the people/culture at NCSA is solid
-If you come into this job knowing it's entry level, it's a decent gig and you pick up on some skills
-Super laid back, almost to a fault some times
-Can make decent money but nothing spectacular
-Benefits are very competitive
-Overall vision of the company and where it's heading was exciting

Pros

Laid back atmosphere and really hands on managers that will help in anyway they can if you have an issue come up

Pros

The company is giving athletes at all levels, and ranges on the spectrum the opportunity to get the things they need to get accomplished with being successfully recruited done in a manner that really helps them drive the process. The different tools & resources that are provided help an athlete and their family save so much time, and they are getting educated, mentored, help with video editing, and financial aid assistance. All of these thing would not only take a lot longer time to do on your own as a family, and the cost associated would be much more expensive then what the cost associate with using NCSA would be. At the end of the day, families are getting the right instructions from former college coaches and players to make sure they are not missing out on the opportunity of playing in college. I have been with the company for almost 4 years, and I can truly say I love what we do and how we are helping families and kids that might have missed out on their opportunity of continuing to play at the college level and getting an education as well.

Advice to Management

Keep the focus on the Student athlete, and helping the family with better tools & resources a long the way.

Pros

***When founder of NCSA, Chris Krause, owned and operated the company there were so many more pros than this. Below is what is left under the new venture capitalist group.***

Talk about sports.

Work from home.

Excellent recruiting technology

Good health benefits

Help educate student athletes on the process and at least think about a plan for their future

Advice to Management

Please stop sending messages to the VPs to fill out positive Glassdoor reviews in order to combat every honest, negative review. Instead, focus your efforts on improving the product and service.

Go back to being who we claim to be. Let’s qualify athletes and bring on the ones we can truly help.