A short YouTube video (creator: Trenton Luera) advising high-school athletes and parents about college football recruiting. The speaker reframes self-promotion: rather than seeing outreach to college coaches as bragging, athletes should view it as necessary and even selfish not to promote themselves because not doing so prevents coaches from knowing about a good fit—reducing scholarship opportunities.
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Parents. Tell me if you heard this before. No, I don't want to post. That's stupid to post. Or I don't want to brag about myself like everybody else. And so this is a common belief that a lot of kids have about the recruiting process when it comes to self promotion. And so don't get me wrong, I had the same thought when I was going through the process, and I definitely don't believe it's 100% wrong. But in reality, you need to get coaches to know about you. And the reframe that you can have around this belief to ultimately realize how important it is is that by not promoting yourself to college coaches, you're actually being selfish and you're actually hurting yourself and others because now you're not letting college coaches have the opportunity to know about you when you know that you would be the right fit for their program. Instead of thinking that you're bragging, just think that you're selfish if you don't tell coaches about you. And so try to get known by as many coaches as possible so that way they have the opportunity to recruit you and offer you the scholarship that they want to give you.