Arch Manning's Dad Has Brutally Honest Advice For Parents Of Recruits

It can be hard to navigate the pitfalls of prep athletics with so many people looking to take advantage of top recruits and their parents.

With each passing year it seems to become more about dollars and cents rather than what a program can actually provide for its athletes.

And in a recent conversation on "The Dan Patrick Show," Arch Manning's father, Cooper Manning, talked a bit about what advice he would give other people who may be going through something similar to what he and his son experienced during his recruitment.

"I wouldn't let a short-term dollar amount dictate a career," Manning said. "I think the best advice I can give is to look at the school, where you're going to go and where you're going to be happy. If money is dictating where you're going to go for the next four years, you're probably going to make a mistake."

"I always tell Arch, where are you going to be on Sunday nights when you've thrown three interceptions, you've gotten beat by the cross-town rivalry, your girlfriend broke up with you, you've got two tests you haven't studied for, it's cloudy and you're homesick?" he continued. "Where are you still going to be relatively happy? And if you can figure that out you made the right choice."

Manning admitted that he knows not everybody came from the same circumstances that his family did. But they should still tread carefully when it comes to college sports in the NIL era. 

"Everybody's in a different situation, certainly, but I think to play the long game is probably the best way to do it," he explained. "You don't want to get caught up in these short-term things that if you start having some success could cannibalize you doing something bigger. No, you did a little dinky deal here that's going to hurt you from doing something bigger. I would just pick your spots carefully and worry about the craft."