A YouTube video by Trenton Luera giving advice on the top five recruiting mistakes that can prevent athletes from earning college scholarships. In this excerpt he lists four key pitfalls: poor academic performance (bad grades), an unprofessional/untidy Twitter profile, disrespectful behavior toward college coaches, and passively waiting for coaches instead of proactively engaging in the recruiting process. The speaker emphasizes that grades affect combined academic/athletic aid and that social media acts as an athletic resume.
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These are the five biggest recruiting killers that you need to avoid to get a scholarship. Number one is bad grades. Now, most people think that as long as you have the minimum requirement GPA that you'll get a scholarship, and that's just not true, especially if you're going FBS or lower, because often they'll pair that athletic scholarship with an academic scholarship. And so you're actually losing money if you don't take care of your grades. Number two is a bad Twitter profile. Your Twitter profile is essentially your athletic resume. And so if you don't have it up to date, if you don't have it looking clean, they're going to miss out on a lot of opportunities when coaches take a look at it. Number three is being disrespectful to a college coach. Hopefully this one should be unsaid, but don't be disrespectful, coach. It's a big, big way to just kill your recruiting process as a whole. Number four, doing nothing and waiting for coaches to come to you. With social media and with the modern day of recruiting, you can't just wait and sit on your hands and hope for a coach to come by your school and recruit you and offer you a scholarship. You need to be active, you need to be proactive as possible because every recruit is fighting for a scholarship and you have to too. Otherwise you're to just going.