Trenton Luera (video creator) advises high-school recruits to get verified on X/Twitter to improve their chances of contacting college coaches during recruiting. He argues the verification fee (~$8/month) is worth it because it reduces competition for messaging coaches and could help access scholarship opportunities, while acknowledging verification does not guarantee offers. He also offers a free spreadsheet of 6,000+ college coaches' emails via Instagram DM.
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Should you get verified on Twitter? Now, as you know, if you're a recruit going through the recruiting process and you're on Twitter, because that's where all the coaches are at, one of the big things right now is the fact that you have to be verified to message a lot of these coaches. But the thing is that costs money. And should you ultimately get verified, is it worth it? First, before I answer your question, if you want a free spreadsheet of 6000 plus college coaches emails, all you have to do is DM me the word email on Instagram, I'll send it to you for free. Now, you should definitely get verified on X or Twitter, whatever you want to call it. Now, some of you guys who went mad say, oh, it's not fair. It's eight bucks per month they're making you pay to get recruited. And that's just how it is. Life isn't fair either, but it is 100% worth it. When you're talking about the fact that you can message more coaches with less competition for just eight bucks a month, I mean, literally, you could work one hour at a job and make eight bucks. It's really not a lot of money. And then we're talking about college football scholarships which are worth tens of thousands of dollars. Really just makes sense at the end of the day. And now getting verified is not going to guarantee that you get a college football scholarship. It's not going to guarantee that you get a bunch of offers or that you get a bunch of interest or.