Trenton Luera recounts his early experiences attending college football camps, describing his junior-year attendance at a large USC mega camp where he left 'empty handed' due to being underprepared. He highlights both physical and mental unpreparedness—especially not knowing how to communicate with college coaches—and intends to share lessons he learned that later led to scholarship offers.
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If you're thinking about going to college camps, this is what you need to do differently from what I did. Because I started going to camps my junior year of high school and especially those first couple camps were a complete disaster. And I want you to learn from my mistakes and how I corrected that and then ended up getting scholarship offers from camps and from all the recruiting I did. So be sure to drop a follow because I post content like this daily. So the first mega camp I went to, it was one at usc. I don't think they do anymore. But I left completely empty handed. And the reason I left empty handed was because I was underprepared. And some of you might think that's physically, but also just mentally underprepared, especially when you're talking about a mega camp. There was 100 plus college coaches there, no exaggeration. And a lot of top recruits were at that camp to perform in front of these coaches. And so I ended up going through the camp, performed whatever, and went up and talked to a couple coaches after the camp. But looking back at it, the one thing that I just was unprepared for, not only just physically, like throwing, running, all that stuff, but mentally, I wasn't able to talk to college coaches the way that I could in the future because I didn't know how to go about it. No one had talked to me about it. I kind of just knew, okay.