A short YouTube video by Trenton Luera advising recruits and parents on common recruiting-process mistakes and how to reduce stress. The speaker lists three avoidable behaviors—over-relying on others (coaches/agents), consuming social media (Twitter) as faux research, and a third item promised later—to help recruits take control and be proactive.
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Here are three ways to make your recruiting process more stressful than it needs to be. Too often, recruits and parents just make it way more stressful than you even need to be. So instead, avoid these three things. It'll make your life way easier throughout the recruiting process. Number one is don't rely on someone else for your recruiting. No matter what. Whether it's your high school coach or someone that you are trusting with the recruiting process, don't solely rely on them and what they're telling you. Take action in your own hands, do your own work, do your own research so that way you're not relying on someone else or hope or or luck. I can't tell you the amount of times that some family has came to me. They told me, hey, we thought XYZ was going to happen because so and so told us so. And now none of that has happened. We haven't even came close and we have no idea what to do. Number two is scrolling on social media like Twitter. This is just a form of procrastination. Scrolling on Twitter, telling yourself, oh, I'm doing recruiting research. I'm seeing all these offers be sent out, these visit invites, all this recruiting advice. If you're scrolling on there thinking that you're learning something, you're. You're really not. You're just trying to convince yourself that you're doing something productive. That may feel productive in the moment, but it's not.