A short YouTube clip by Trenton Luera offering practical recruiting advice for high-school football players: think from the coach’s perspective and make it as easy as possible for coaches to evaluate you. Key recommendation: avoid long highlight reels or hard-to-find links; instead put a screen-recorded version of your highlights in your pinned Twitter post so coaches can view quickly and decide whether to recruit you.
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Thinking this way will get you more scholarship offers, more interest from college coaches, and make the process way easier. If you don't know who I am, I help kids get recruited to get college football scholarships just like you. So be sure to drop a follow. And this mindset I'm talking about is just thinking about how can I make the coach's job easier? Because the common way of thinking is everyone thinking, okay, what can I do to convince or sell myself to this coach? That way they can give me a scholarship offer. And though that's not necessarily wrong, the issue is people go way above and beyond and just end up annoying the coach or wasting the coach's time. They're just going to go to the next guy. So instead of putting together a 10 minute highlight video, instead of writing a whole essay as an email or a DM or making things harder to find for them, just make it really easy for them to go through the information that they need to make that decision of, hey, do we want to recruit this kid or not? They're going to make that decision and then ultimately, if they like you, they're going to reach out to you and contact you. And just by making it easier, you're going to get more interest and more scholarship offers. So what's an example way of doing this? One of the big ones is in your pin tweet on Twitter. You should have a screen recorded version of your highlights. Too many people just put the link and then instead the coach has to click on.