Short YouTube video by Trent Loire giving concrete advice to high-school football recruits on how to edit highlight tapes to attract college coaches and increase scholarship chances. Key recommendations: lead with your best plays, keep the reel short (focused like a trailer), and aim for roughly 20 top plays rather than long 8–10 minute videos.
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This is exactly how you structure your highlight tape to catch the attention of college coaches and increase your chance of getting a scholarship offer. If you don't know who I am, I'm Trent Loire. I'm a former college quarterback. I help recruits just like you get college football scholarships. So if you like this and want more content like this, be sure to drop a follow. The biggest thing is you want to make sure that you put your best plays first. College coaches don't have a lot of time, so they're going to watch your first five plays, maybe the first 30 seconds, maybe the first minute max, and make that decision of, hey, is this guy a possible fit for a program or is he not? So making sure your best play is first, your second best play is second. It's crucial to ensure that you're catching their attention as much as possible in the beginning. The next piece is highlight length. Many recruits try to make this super long 8 to 10 minute highlight. They try to make it like this movie and instead you should be thinking it's a trailer, not a movie, because you want just short snippets, action packed. Because again, a college coach is not going to watch an 8 to 10 minute highlight reel. So you're wasting time trying to set it up so that way you still have really good plays in the middle and you have really good plays at the end because they're just not going to get to that point. Instead, you should be focused on making it your best 20 play.