Find out exactly where your athlete stands — in 90 minutes, instead of in the spring of senior year.

01The part nobody explains

Your transcript GPA is not the GPA the NCAA uses.

Every one of these was preventable. In every one, the family found out too late to change it.

04Who you're learning from

A recruiter who cut boards, and an NFL Man of the Year.

J.B. Gerald

Founder, PlayEligible · former D1 recruiter

J.B. caught 113 passes at Colgate, 74 of them as a senior on the 15-1 team that reached the Division I-AA national championship game. He coached next — a graduate assistant under Joe Paterno at Penn State, then Illinois, then wide receivers and recruiting coordinator at New Mexico — and later ran high school relations at Syracuse, which is the job of deciding which kids are real and which are being sold. He has built recruiting boards. He is going to show you how they get cut.

Madieu Williams

Special guest · 2010 Walter Payton NFL Man of the Year

Madieu played nine NFL seasons for Cincinnati, Minnesota, San Francisco and Washington, and in 2010 the league named him Walter Payton NFL Man of the Year — its award for what a player does when he is not playing. He gave $2 million to the University of Maryland to create a center for global health, funded a primary school in Sierra Leone, and sits on two WCAC school boards and the Board of Trustees at Bennett College. He knows what it takes to get there, and what it costs when the academics are not handled.

07Before you ask

The honest answers.

Can't I find this for free online?

Some of it, and a fair amount of what you'll find is out of date — plenty of sites still teach the sliding scale, which the NCAA retired in 2023. What you can't find anywhere is a former Division I recruiter telling you what happens on the other side of the table: which athletes come off a board, at what point, and why nobody calls to tell the family.

My athlete isn't being recruited yet. Is this too early?

It's the opposite. Ten of the sixteen core courses are locked in before senior year starts, so the decisions that determine eligibility get made in eighth, ninth and tenth grade — usually during course selection, by families who don't know that's what they're doing. Start early and you have options. Start senior year and you have damage control.

We're not a D1 family. Is this still relevant?

Yes, and it's most of the room. We cover D1, D2, D3, NAIA and JUCO, because the rules and the recruiting behaviour genuinely differ by level and almost nobody explains the differences in one place.

What if I can't attend live?

Every tier includes the full recording, sent within 48 hours. The time zone is not a reason to skip this.

Is this a sales pitch for the platform?

No. It's a 90-minute teaching session, and the session is the product. Attendees get free platform access as a bonus — two months on General Admission and Family, three on VIP and Team — but you'll get the full blueprint whether or not you ever open it.

Can my athlete attend with me?

Yes, and we'd rather they did — the parts about coach outreach land differently when the athlete hears them directly. If you want separate logins so everyone joins from their own device, that's what the Family Pack is for.

Do you guarantee my athlete gets recruited, or earns NIL money?

No — and be careful with anyone who does. Nobody can promise a scholarship or a deal, and a promise like that is the clearest sign you're being sold to. We teach you the system, what actually moves the needle, and what quietly disqualifies an athlete. The work is yours.

What's your refund policy?

Full refund up to 48 hours before the session, no questions asked — email hello@playeligible.com and it's done. Inside 48 hours we can't refund, because the VIP room is capped and a late cancellation is a seat nobody else could take. You'll still get the recording either way.