Short coaching-style advice on how to make effective football recruiting highlight reels. Key recommendations: open with your best play, keep each clip as short as possible, show a variety of distinct skills (not repetitive plays), and remove long intros, music, slow-motion replays, and filler plays. The stated goal is to hook coaches quickly so they contact you for more.
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First, your best play needs to be the very first clip. Coaches decide in the first 30 seconds if they're going to keep watching. Second, you need to make sure each clip is as short as possible. No coach wants to watch five seconds before the snap and then five seconds of you celebrating the end zone. They just want to see the action. The third thing is that every clip must show a different skill. If you're continually showing yourself throw go balls, all that says is that you're a one dimensional player. But if you can show yourself throwing a deep ball, making an off platform throw and standing in the pocket making a tough throw while somebody's trying to sack you, that shows that you can do a lot of different things in just, just three plays. So what else should you remove? Number one, long intros, music, slow motion replays, and random decent plays that don't showcase anything. You have to remember that the goal isn't to show everything you can do, it's just to get coaches to contact you for more to hook them in. So keep it short, keep it clean, keep it focused on those three elements.