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| Each month, you get | Basic · $14.99/mo | Pro · coming soon |
|---|---|---|
| Skoutd Recruiting Profiles | 25 per month | Higher limits |
| Film analyses | 50 per month | Higher limits |
| Skoutd Match & Recruiting Ideas | 30 per month | Higher limits |
| Outreach email drafts | 1,000 per month | Higher limits |
| Coach emails sent | 100 per month | Higher limits |
| Daily send cap | 100 per day | Higher limits |
Playing in college starts with a coach knowing who you are. Four steps get you there, and the heavy lifting isn't yours.
One thing to do before step four: click the link in the confirmation email we send when you register. You can build your profile and save drafts without it, but sending stays locked until the address is confirmed — that is what keeps a coach's reply going to a mailbox you own.
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Yes — and after ten or so emails it's the most likely outcome, for strong athletes too. Two things are usually going on, and neither is a verdict on your athlete.
First, many coaches aren't allowed to reply yet. NCAA rules bar Division I coaches from private contact until a date set by sport — June 15 after sophomore year for most sports including football, September 1 of junior year for lacrosse and softball. You can email them any time; they legally cannot answer until then. Division III coaches have no such restriction and can reply at any age, which is one good reason to keep a mix of programs on your list.
Second, ten emails just isn't a sample size yet. Recruiting services widely recommend a list of 20–30 well-matched programs with two or three contacts each — that's roughly 60 touches, and ten one-off emails is about an eighth of it. Cold outreach behaves this way everywhere: in a 2025 report covering more than 10 million job applications, about 3% of applicants got an interview at all. Following up is the biggest lever — across 12 million outreach emails, a single follow-up lifted replies by 66% over sending just one.
Skoutd is built for exactly this: it keeps the full list in front of you, tells you who hasn't been contacted, and drafts the follow-up with whatever is genuinely new since your last email. The numbers behind this, with sources. Contact dates change and vary by sport — always confirm yours against the NCAA directly.
No, and it's built so it can't be. Nothing is sent automatically — you review and approve every message. Each one goes to exactly one coach: there is no “email the whole staff” button, because a message addressed to seven people announces itself as a broadcast before anyone reads a word of it.
And each one is written for that program rather than merged from a template with the school name swapped in. Spam filters have been able to see through that swap for twenty years — the fill-in-the-blanks email you send to fifty coaches is the same email fifty times, and gets treated like it. Protecting your athlete's reputation with coaches is the whole point of how the system is built. What filters actually look at.
From publicly available sources — college athletics websites, their published staff directories, and public federal education data for the school details like size, programs of study and tuition. We don't buy lists, and there's nothing here a coach hasn't already chosen to publish.
That means it's good, but not perfect. A program may have just changed staff, a school might publish its coaches in a format we haven't learned to read yet, or a university with several campuses might have its teams filed under the wrong one. Some programs also publish a general team address rather than a coach's own — we pass along whatever they make public.
If something looks wrong or missing, please tell us. Use the Feedback link at the bottom of any page once you're signed in, or email info@skoutd.ai. We fix these by hand and the correction reaches every family using Skoutd, not just the one who reported it — that's exactly how a recent missing-campus report got resolved for everyone.
Program inbox. Some programs route recruiting mail through one shared team address that the whole coaching staff reads. We list it once, as the program, so a single email reaches everyone — writing to each coach separately would just put several copies of your introduction into the same inbox.
Not on current roster. We re-check each program's own roster page over time. If a coach hasn't appeared there across checks a month or more apart, we flag them instead of removing them — they may have moved on, or the page may simply have changed. It's worth a quick look at the team's website before you write.
No email. Some programs don't publish their coaches' addresses at all. Many of them ask recruits to fill out a recruiting questionnaire on the team's page instead — that's the route their staff actually watches, so it's the right place to start. You can still log any text or call you have with that staff here.
Spotted a coach who's moved on, or a program we're missing? Tell us through the Feedback link — every fix reaches every family using Skoutd.
No — and we'd rather be straight about it than sell you a number that isn't real. Skoutd doesn't put a tracking pixel in emails to college coaches, doesn't rewrite your film links to route through us, and never connects to your mailbox — so there is no opens number, no clicks number and no replies number anywhere in the product.
Those numbers are mostly machines. An “open” fires when the coach's mail app loads a hidden image, and Apple loads it the moment the message arrives whether or not anyone looked, while Outlook and most university systems never load it at all. A “click” is very often the school's security scanner, which opens every link in a message before the coach sees it. And a service can only tell you a coach replied if it can read your inbox, or if the coach was replying to them instead of to you.
What you do get: exactly what you sent and when, and replies coming straight to your own inbox. From there you keep your own notes on each coach, and mark a whole program Not interested when it's closed — which stops it being suggested, bulk-emailed or raised in your next steps. What those dashboards actually measure.
Two ways, and the first is the one we recommend. Send opens your own mail app — Gmail, Outlook, Yahoo, iCloud, or whatever your phone uses — with the coach's address, the subject and the whole message already written. You read it, change anything you like, and press send there. The coach sees your real address, the reply lands in your inbox, and the relationship is yours rather than a service's.
Send via Skoutd is the fallback for when that hand-off does not work — most often because the mail app on the device is signed in to a different account from the one you registered with, which is a setup mismatch rather than anything you did wrong. Skoutd sends it for you from its own address and sets your address as the reply-to, so a coach who hits Reply still writes to you. It queues and goes out within about a minute; there is no instant-send button, deliberately, because that pause is what stops a misdirected email.
The honest difference: mail sent from your own account carries your own sending reputation and is the strongest version of this. Mail we send for you carries ours, shared with other families, and counts against your monthly send allowance. Either way you approve every word before it goes.
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