A short YouTube video by Tren Lohr (uploaded by Trenton Luera) advising high-school football recruits that recruiting is a separate, essential skill distinct from on-field ability. Lohr, a former Morningside University quarterback, emphasizes marketing and selling oneself to college coaches—without that recruiting skill, talented players may be overlooked or miss opportunities.
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The main reason why not necessarily always the best players get recruited to play college football. So if you're trying to play college football, you're going to want to listen to this because regardless of your talent or what you do on the field, if you don't have this one thing, then you won't be able to get recruited. You won't go to the best school for you, leading to missed opportunities in the recruiting process. If you don't know who I am, I'm Tren Lohr. I'm a former college quarterback at Morningside University and I help recruits just like you get recruited. So this main thing is the recruiting skill. Recruiting is completely different from on the field activities, off the field, in the classroom, in the weight room. It's its own separate skill. You have to be able to market yourself and sell yourself to college coaches. Some recruits notice that right away and some don't. I'm sure you know plenty of kids that you've played with that are just absolutely talented on the field, had great film, had grades and then they ended up going to a lower level program that you than you expected or just didn't get recruited at all. And you may think that it's, it's luck or because the area is overlooked and yeah, that might be true, but ultimately, if they have the skill of recruiting, it's impossible.