Short transcript from a recruiting-advice video arguing that the single most important factor in college football recruiting is exposure (being known and seen by college coaches). The speaker emphasizes that on-field performance alone is insufficient if coaches never see a player, and that exposure leads to feedback and offers. The clip frames exposure as the key to resolving frustrating, opaque recruiting outcomes.
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The most important piece in the recruiting process is not where you go to high school, how well you play on the field, or anything else that your high school coach or some guy that got recruited 10, 20, 30 years ago is going to tell you. Instead, the most important thing is making sure that you get known and seen by college coaches. Because even if you play great on the field and then no coaches know about you, you're not going to get recruited. I think that's the most frustrating thing about the recruiting process, is that the stuff on the field can be there. You can be an absolute beast on the field, but then coaches don't know about it, or they're not offering you for some kind of reason that you're not showing them, and it just leaves you guessing, what else am I missing? I just wish somebody would tell me why I am not getting the offers I deserve. And that's why exposure is so key. Because if you have enough exposure, the coaches will tell you what you're missing or what's going on. You'll get the feedback you want. And that's what we've seen for a lot of our guys is that, hey, we talk to them, we think they're this level and they still want to try higher, and then they just see that, hey, we didn't get the feedback that we were expecting from those levels. And so oftentimes you have to let.