A short video (or clip) discussing whether to contact football coaches via email or direct message (DM). The speaker—who tracks recruitment metrics professionally—says both methods can work but prefers Twitter DMs for football, cites observed email response rates typically low (often 0%, occasionally 3–5%), and notes that they have received real scholarship offers via email from Division I coaches.
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Do I think it's better to email coaches or DM coaches to quickly answer your question, Both work. The one that's probably better for football is DMs, but luckily I'm an absolute nerd. I'm a computer science major. I track the numbers. We track all these things inside scholarship accelerator. So I'm gonna give you the real honest take Now. A lot of people will tell you, oh, coaches don't recruit based off of email. It doesn't work anymore. Their inboxes is full. They just throw everything in the trash. That's not true. We. We've had responses from even D1 coaches responding back to our players personally offering them scholarships, telling them to hop on the phone showing real interest. So it does work. Now you can see response rate from anywhere between, you know, of course you get zero responses, but sometimes we've seen response rates up to 3 to 5%. Now, that's pretty rare to see that high. But when the amount of volume that we're sending, it adds up pretty quickly to, you know, 5, 10, 20 responses. But ultimately you're probably going to get a better bang for your buck out of the dms. So if I had to pick one, I would pick Twitter DMs. But nowadays.