Trenton Luera warns recruits that becoming passive after initial coach contact can cost them college football scholarships. He argues against playing conservative based on a few conversations and recommends a proactive, "aggressive" recruiting approach—defined as assertive, consistent outreach rather than disrespectful behavior—to improve scholarship prospects.
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If you're making this one mistake, you're going to cost yourself college football scholarship. And no matter where you're at in the process, you should be listening to this. Even if you have interest from schools and think that they're secured scholarships, you're going to want to pay attention to this. Now, at this point, you're probably talking to some coaches. Maybe you've had one conversation, a phone call, maybe even just a response back. So now with one response or a couple conversations, you probably think that, okay, well, hey, they know who I am. This should hopefully turn into a scholarship. Here's the thing. You're farther from the truth than you think. I've seen this happen to myself and plenty of other recruits. You start to play conservative in the recruiting game because you've kind of built this relationship. You feel like the coach kind of might like you, but other than that, you have no clue what's going on. And you feel like if you say something, you might just lose a scholarship. But here's the real truth. If you don't say anything, you're also just not going to get a scholarship at all, either. I'm much more along the lines of aggressive recruiting now. This isn't just begging a coach or being super mean to a coach or disrespectful. It's being proactive in recruiting and trying to.