Ross Tucker

Ross Tucker was a two-time Academic All-American as an offensive lineman at Princeton University before playing seven years in the National Football League. He's currently a television analyst for NBC as well as a year-round host on Sirius XM NFL Radio. In addition to his media pursuits, Tucker is the founder and CEO of GoBigRecruiting.com, a service that allows high school prospects to submit their video, transcripts and information to college coaches online and know when it was been viewed.

Articles by Ross Tucker

• The challenges of academics and recruiting: Part II

  Thursday, January 09, 2014

  The hardest part of recruiting for most of the academically elite schools is putting together the class once you know where every prospect is from a test score and transcript standpoint. For schools in the Ivy League, for example, it is a complex puzzle that rivals the NFL salary cap.

• The challenges of academics and recruiting: Part I

  Friday, January 03, 2014

  It's the hardest part of the recruiting process for college coaches, and there is no close second: the academics. It's a three-pronged struggle for every school, with the third part — getting a recruiting class that fits into the academic requirements of that particular institution or conference — proving to be especially difficult for those schools in academically elite conferences like the Ivy, Patriot, NESCAC and Centennial, among others. Let's start, however, with the first two struggles, which are the academic-based issues that every program has to deal with.