Sophomore football players make three recruitment mistakes: believing coaches can't contact them at ID camps (they can), sending too few highlight videos instead of 15-30 emails per school, and skipping individual camps at selective Division III schools like Carnegie Mellon and Johns Hopkins where coaches notice them faster.
3 mistakes every single sophomore makes. Don't let this be you. Number 1, you think that Division I schools can't talk to you. Actually, at an ID camp, they can talk to you any which way they like, and that's how you know if you're gonna get a call on June 15th, is because at the camps, there are no rules in which they can communicate with you. Number 2 is you think 1 to 2 highlight videos is enough to warrant significant interest. You have to email these schools 15 to 20 to 30 times per coach, per school. So that means every school needs to get 30 to 40 emails just to have the opportunity to maybe get on a phone call for them to actually come to your game, and for when you go to the camp they actually know who you are. And the best way to follow up is with Every Touch videos, because once they've seen one highlight video, they don't need to see a lot more highlight videos of you. Number 3, you guys think you don't need to go to individual camps. Individual camps tend to be the best place to actually get seen. Specifically for high academic Division IIIs. If you go to UCLA's camp or Stanford's camp, you can go, but there's a lot of kids at those. If you go to Carnegie Mellon or Johns Hopkins or Pomona-Pitzer as an individual and genuine interest, you can get seriously recruited very quickly, right away. Which, by the way, once one coach knows you, other coaches know you. So start there first. If you want to know which camps to go to, comment the word camp and we will send you which camps you could go to.
