A short YouTube clip by Trenton Luera offering freshmen three practical steps to improve their chances of being recruited for college football: (1) learn the recruiting process early so you understand timelines (notably the contact period starting June 15 before junior year), (2) attend camps to meet coaches and showcase ability (coaches can’t directly contact recruits before contact periods but camps are allowed), and (3) continuously develop as a player, enjoy the game, and collect more film. The speaker normalizes that not having offers early is common.
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These are the three things freshmen need to do to get recruited. And this is coming from someone who got recruited themselves. So be sure to follow for more content like this. The number one thing you need to do is just start learning the recruiting process. You don't have to do a deep dive, but at least start getting an understanding of how things work and how you can go about it to get ahead. That way, once you hit that contact period on June 15th going into your junior year, you're running right from the start. Number two, you can start going to camps because the thing is, college coaches can't directly contact you again, because we're behind that contact period. But you can go to camps and get in contact with them there. Hopefully get an idea on where you might project that as far as division level. And if you do really well, then you can start getting in contact with these coaches now, maybe get ahead and start getting ranked, all that good stuff. If you're at that level, of course, that's a top 1% of 1% player. And the number three thing, the most important thing, is just continue to develop as a player, continue loving the game of football and get more film because again, you're way ahead of the recruiting process. If you're not having offers at this point, that's totally normal.