Trenton Luera offers concise, practical advice for high-school players on how to get recruited to play college football when they have little or no game film. He outlines three main actions: (1) make any existing highlight film tightly edited and ordered to impress coaches, (2) produce supplementary pro-day-style footage showing position-specific drills and skills, and (3) proactively contact and get known by as many college coaches as possible so at least one coach believes in you.
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This is how you get recruited to play college football. Despite having no to little film. The three big things you need to do. Number one, make sure that the film you do have is dialed in as much as possible. That means it has to be clipped at the right time for every single play, has to be ordered in the correct way. Making sure that if a college coach sees it that they're going to be impressed. Otherwise you're just gonna be wasting opportunities left and right. And doesn't matter what film you have, the second thing you need is other film outside of your highlights. So usually I recommend some kind of pro day video. This is you going on the grass and shorts and shirt and just doing whatever you would do in your position. This is really easy for skill positions. It can be harder for, you know, front seven guys. So quarterbacks, receivers, running backs, it should be pretty easy just showing yourself, working through drills, doing things that you would do in game. Now if you're on the decent ball again, just doing drills, showing casing yourself skills and talents that would impress a college coach. Once you have these two things, then the third part comes in that's getting known by as many coaches as possible that you don't have much film, but you're working with what you have. So ultimately all you need is one single coach to believe in you. So the goal is.