YouTube short by Trent Lore (Trenton Luera) advising parents of high school football players to start early conversations about college recruiting. He emphasizes clarifying goals (schools, division level, life goals) to reduce stress and miscommunication, and notes from his own experience as a former NAI quarterback that earlier discussions would have helped.
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Parent with a son, going through the recruiting process is the number one thing you should do right now. Now, I don't have a son. I'm 22 years old and just wrapped up my recruiting process. But looking back at my process, I wish this is what me and my parents would have done earlier because it would have made things way easier. If you don't know who I am, I'm Trent Lore. I'm a former NAI quarterback, and now I help high school football players do the same thing that I did, which is accomplishing their dream of playing college football. So the number one thing you should do with your son is have a conversation about recruiting. Just getting clear on, like, what their goals are, what they want to do, what schools they're thinking, division level, like, what they want even out of their life, is just a good conversation to have. And it doesn't have to be super deep. Obviously, the deeper the better, the more you can figure out. And I know it's hard having to talk to a 16, 15 year old and asking these questions. They're going to get annoyed. Believe me, looking back at it, I probably would have been like, dad, Mom, I don't want to talk about this right now. But just having this conversation early on will save you a lot of time, effort, and stress. Because imagine if there's like some little miscommunication. For example, like you're thinking, hey, let's get the to you to the.