Avoid these 5 mistakes — #recruiting #collegefootball #scholarship #recruitingprocess #fyp

These are the five things you should never do when messaging a college coach. Number one is giving a super long explanation into their situation and why a coach should recruit. And I'm not saying trying to sell yourself through a message is wrong, but to be honest, it is wrong. A coach doesn't care about what your words say in that first introductory message. They're just trying to figure out, is this kid even good enough to play it as a part of our team? And so that's why you need to provide video. It's really all you need in that message. Number two is a lack of spacing. Most people think that they need to write like an essay and include all these paragraphs. Instead, you want to keep super short sentence structure and include spacing in between. Each line makes it easier to read. That way the coach can read it quicker and get to your video, which is the whole goal of the message. And that takes me to number three, which is most people don't understand the whole goal of a message. They think the goal of a message is to get a conversation going or to start building that relationship or to get a scholarship offer. And though they can definitely lead to those things, that is not the whole golden message.