A short coaching video by Alex Swenson (nov 16, 2020) outlining four common obstacles that prevent athletes—particularly baseball recruits—from receiving college offers: lack of a plan, insufficient exposure, narrow school selection (level), and geographic limitation. The speaker also promotes a paid small group/course and emphasizes video as a key exposure tool and targets of 40 schools to pursue.
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Hey, how you doing, Alex here. Before we get into the four obstacles that may be holding you back from getting an offer, you might have saw my email yesterday. You might have missed my email yesterday. If that's the case, I just opened up my small group and course where I'll be able to help you through your recruiting process personally. We're going to meet like this twice a month, every month until you commit and graduate again. It's going to be just like this, but you're going to be on the other side live, where you'll be able to communicate with me and I'll be able to communicate with you and I'll be able to give you a plan every time we meet. And then you're going to be able to execute on on that plan. And then when we meet again, we're going to review that, update it and go from there. There's a lot that goes into this and I'm really excited about it. Go on and click on the link in the email or down in the description below to get more information and to join this small group again. I'm super excited about this. You're going to get inside information. I talk to these college coaches. I was a college scout, coach and recruiter for 11 years at the Division 1 level, so I have a large network and I'm super excited to help you through this process. Okay. But hey, let's hop into the four obstacles that may be holding you back from getting an offer. The first one is a plan. Do you have a plan? You need to have a plan. If you don't have a plan, you are planning to fail. You ever heard of that? Okay, so you need to have a plan so you can execute on. The biggest one is have a plan to expose yourself the right way. Okay, so yeah, you might be on a summer team or a fall team. Right? But are you getting out there? Well, if you're looking D1, nobody's out there. They can't be because of the dead, period. Okay, and then are you going to the certain showcases? Are you putting yourself with the right people that are going to help you through this process? Have a plan, guys. Please have a plan. Okay, then exposure. So I just talked about that briefly. You need to be exposing yourself. Well, you can ask me. Hey, alex. Well, no, D1 coaches are out right now. How can I expose myself? The video, guys. Video, Video. You guys have probably heard me talk about this. You need to get video whether. If you're a position guy, you need to be video hitting, fielding and throwing and running. If you're a pitcher, you obviously need to be doing all of that, all of your pitching from the side, from the back, behind the catcher as well. You need to have Delo on your video as well. Okay? Very, very important there. Okay? And then check your level of play. If you're looking only at Vanderbilt, lsu, ucla. Guys, those are all great schools, and I love that. Okay, fantastic program. But expand outside of that, okay? You need to be looking at other division ones, Mid majors, lower division one, lower mid majors. Look outside of just the top tier, and I get it. I still want you to go for those. But expand your list. You need to have at least 40 schools on your list. 40. Okay. And then narrow it down as you go. Okay? That's very, very important. Then expand outside of your region. So this is number four, location. If you're looking in just one little small location, okay? Expand outside of that. You know how many Division 1 schools there are? There's 299, and there's actually 1600 college baseball programs. Okay? Look outside of those. So look over those four and evaluate that, examine that and see where you can help yourself get an offer. I'll see you in the next video.
