Short YouTube video by Trenton Luera (uploaded March 12, 2024) giving practical recruiting advice for high-school football players. Main claim: the first step to get recruited is to use Twitter — most college coaches use it and can be messaged directly. Practical tips include not worrying about fancy recruiting profiles or rankings, posting regularly, and having a clear profile picture showing your face (preferably without a helmet).
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Probably 90–95%.
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If you're trying to get recruited to play college football, this is the first thing you need to do. And this is coming from a former college football player. And I post tips and tricks like this daily. So if you want help getting recruited, be sure to follow for more because I post content like this every single day. So the number one thing that you need to do is get on Twitter. Twitter is where most of college coaches are, probably 90, 95% of them. On top of that, you're able to directly message them on there. And none of that is going to change in the near future. So if you're a freshman, sophomore, junior, even a senior who just is like, I need to start the recruiting process, but I have no idea where to start, this is the first thing I would recommend. You don' need one of those fancy recruiting profiles. You don't need to worry about stars or rankings or anything like that. You just need to get on Twitter, start posting, make sure that your Twitter profile looks good, and then start reaching out to college coaches. This will allow you to start the recruiting process. You'll start seeing who's responding back and some college coaches might come across some of your posts. They might see your profile, really like you and reach out to you as well. Also, if you're unsure what your Twitter profile should even look like, a couple quick tips are make sure that you have a profile picture that shows your face, preferably without a helmet. So way if a coach sees you.