A former college quarterback describes a three-step process for restarting recruiting: 1) develop as a player (get bigger, faster, stronger), 2) be highly active on Twitter because most recruiting occurs there, and 3) proactively increase visibility with college coaches through emails, DMs, camps, and questionnaires. The speaker emphasizes that self-promotion is necessary unless a player is a top-rated recruit.
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Here's the exact step by step process I would follow if I were restarting my recruiting again. The first thing I would do is develop my skills as a football player. You have to be a great player to play college football. So my biggest focus would be getting bigger, faster, stronger and just improving as a player overall. Because if I'm not good, then I'm not going to get recruited in the first place. The next thing would be getting active as possible on Twitter. Twitter is where 90% of recruiting happens and you can do so many things on there that will help you get recruited and get college football scholarships. So I'd be active, posting, following coaches, messaging coaches, doing as much as I can on there to get more recruiting momentum. The third piece would be becoming more known by college coaches. A lot of people think, okay, if you just play well and just put your highlights out there into the random space of Twitter, you'll get recruited. That's not how it works. You need to do your own work to get known by college coaches. Unless you're a four star or five star, you know, 24, seven arrivals, they'll take care of that for you. But if you're not, then you're going to have to do it yourself. So sending emails, sending DMs, going to camps, filling out questionnaires are all great ways to get.