Short YouTube advice from Trenton Luera on using psychology in the college football recruiting process. Main actionable point so far: when coaches ask “How is your recruiting going?” recruits should avoid vague answers (e.g., “good,” “Division I”) and instead name specific schools and specific coaches to create the impression those programs are actively recruiting them, which raises perceived value and interest.
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Use psychology to your advantage in the college football recruiting process to get more interest and more offers in the long run. One of the most common questions you're going to get from college coaches in the recruiting process is, how is your recruiting going? And the worst possible way you could answer that is by saying good or great. Instead, you want to be specific. Now, you may think like, oh, Trenton, I am specific. I'm telling him, oh, Division one, Division two. No, you want to be specific as to the exact school and the exact same coach that you're talking to. Because here's the thing, every other recruit either says good or great, or they say, oh, I'm talking to Division 1 schools. And every coach rolls their eyes when they hear you say that you're talking to a Division 1 school, because they know 99% of times that's B.S. they're not really recruiting you. And so you want to show them that the schools are recruiting you or at least giving the impression that they're recruiting you. So, for example, if a coach asked me, hey, how's recruiting going? Let's say I'm talking to Coach Fish over at Washington University and then also talking to Coach blah blah at the student school as well, this immediately sets way higher.