Alex Swenson (speaker) presents a short persuasive message framing the college recruiting process as a "game": it requires active participation, strategic choices, and adherence to rules; athletes should proactively "play the game" rather than passively hoping to be discovered.
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The recruiting process is a game. Let me explain. You probably want to play at the college level. You might even want to play professionally in the sport that you play is a game. There's strategic things that you need to do to win the game. There's also rules that you have to abide by, and if you break them, there's penalties to that. Well, the recruiting process is a game. There's a strategic thing that you need to do at winning recruiting, but there's also rules that you can't break as well. When you start looking at it from that lens, start playing the game of recruiting. Don't just sit back and hope to be found. It's a game, and you have to compete in this game to win. Start playing the game of recruiting.