Short YouTube advice clip (creator: Trenton Luera) advising high-school football players to contact college coaches even if they have limited, JV, or no film. Recommends creating self-made highlight videos, sending emails/messages to get on coaches' radar, and emphasizes that initial contact can lead to future interest once better film is available—worst case is no response, best case is early awareness and easier follow-up.
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Should you reach out to college coaches if you have limited film or even if you have JV film? The answer is absolutely you should. I get this question all the time asking about, hey, I had limited film, I didn't play a lot, I got injured. Ultimately, yeah, you should absolutely reach out to college coaches. Even if you have no film, you can go out there and create your own video. End up sending the college coaches. Now, are you going to get scholarships out of this stuff? No. But the very least you can start to get on their radar. Worst case scenario, no one responds. Everybody thinks that like college coaches have this big list of recruits and they're just crossing guys off. That's not how it works. You. Yeah, there's some times where they see a kid in the camp, they act terrible and they're like, I'm never going to get recruit that kid. Yes. But if you send an email or a message to the college coach and you just don't have the film that they would like, they're not crossing off their list. They're just going to be like, eh, go on to the next side. They're probably not even going to remember you. And that's totally fine. But your upside is so much higher if that limited film is at least decent. You get on the radar of a coach, they respond back to you, you get things going and then you get better film the next year. You're not starting from the very beginning. You can just shoot them over that new film. They already know who you are, they already kind of like you and now they just have proof.