A short YouTube commentary by Trent Lorn (former college quarterback) arguing that the high school you attend materially affects college football recruiting. He cites elite programs (St. John Bosco, Duncanville, IMG) as consistent producers of Division I prospects and explains coaches preferentially scout and offer at those schools because it simplifies recruiting. The creator also offers a free spreadsheet of college coaches' emails via Instagram DM.
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Does your high school affect your recruiting? First off, yes, it absolutely does. I'm going to break down why and what you can do about it, even if you're not out of type high school. But first, if you're new here, I'm Trent Lorn, I'm a former college quarterback. And also if you want a free spreadsheet of 6000 plus college coaches emails, all you do is DM me the word emails on Instagram, I'll send it to you for free. So the reason why is because think of like the top high schools in the nation. St. John Bosco, modern day Duncanville, IMG whatever schools you want to think of, just those are the top high schools and the consistently produced you won't. Now it's a little bit of the chicken egg. Like do the schools actually produce D1 talent or does D1 talent like come there for whatever reason? Regardless, it doesn't really matter because coaches know, hey, these schools are constantly really good. We can go there, we can just clean them out, recruit other kids, offer all of them and then hopefully we'll get a few of them. They turn out to be really good and that's awesome. Makes it really easy for them recruiting wise. And that's the key is that it makes them makes it really easy. They just know, hey, we can check out sage out boss school.