A student got a Division I soccer offer by making highlight videos that showed every touch, then asking their club coach to email college coaches directly. The strategy works because coaches care about their reputation, so they'll advocate for players who make them look good.
Story time!
One of my students got an offer! Let me show you the text message we got.
Let's go! BetterMind coach said, honestly, Nathan, we would love to have you. Over the phone, he's going to connect me with one of the players who transferred into the program.
When a coach wants you, first of all, they're going to tell you, which is super exciting, and then they also may connect you to one of their players so they could further prove, hey, I'm a great coach and now I want you. And now they are recruiting you, you are not trying to be recruited by them. Now, how did we get to this point where the coach was saying, we want you on our team. Every touch videos was really important, as well as leveraging his club soccer coach. So yes, in the recruiting process, you want to make every touch videos for so many games. That way the coach can really get to know you as a person. This particular school had seen him play at some showcases, but they wanted to know from his coach what he was like as a player. So in his video, we put his coach's reference.
We also asked his coach, would you please text him and email him? Now your coaches, You may think, especially if you're a parent, like, oh, my coaches will do that for me. No, they will not do that for you ever unless you ask them to. So you must ask them to, and you must ask them to do so politely. Also, your club coach has a lot of jobs, probably has another full-time job, or he's coaching 5 different teams, and there's every other player asking them to text. And guess what? They're not going to text coaches for every single player because some of the players they don't think are good enough to play college soccer at those schools, and they don't want to ruin their own reputation. So they're going to be picky about who they're going to help. That's just the deal. Even if they say, oh, we'll help you, they're going to help more players more than others because it's their career on the line, their reputation. So what you need to do is you need to talk to your coaches early on in the recruiting process and say, hi coach, what level do you believe that I can play? Then once the coach says, I believe you can play this level, you're either stuck with that coach only helping you go to those schools, or you go find colleges and have the colleges call him and say, hey, this is Division I coach, I want to talk to you. And the coach is never going to be like, hey, I don't think he's a good enough player to play for your school. The coach would be like, I'm so glad you think he's a great player to play Division I. Here's my instinct about him as a person, as a human being, and I hope he plays Division 1. Because club coaches would never want that kid not to play at the Division 1 level because it will make him look good or her look good. So they're not going to talk down about you unless you're a bad person, like they don't like your attitude or something. Then the coach will warn the college coach, hey, he's got a bad attitude. So make sure that's not you. This is why we put the college coaches in your highlight videos, because now the coaches can just do it with video and they don't have to call so many people because they have jobs to do. So if you want help learning how to leverage your club coach to talk to coaches and you want to get offers from Division I schools like BetterMind, then if you want help, you can call me. Links in the bio.
