Short YouTube advice clip by former college quarterback Trenton Luera explaining that on-field ability (good film) is necessary but not sufficient for getting recruited. He emphasizes three non-athletic skills—marketing yourself, building relationships with college coaches, and continuous decision-making—and notes elite four- or five-star recruits are an exception.
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Recruiting is more than just your on field performance. To get recruited, it takes a lot more skill than just what you have on the field. Unless you're a four star or five star, which you can just stop watching this video if you are. But before we get into that, if you don't know who I am, I'm Trent Lora. I'm a former college quarterback. Now I help recruits just like you get college football scholarships. So if you want more content like this, be sure to drop a follow. Now, being a good player is the most important part for sure. You have to have good film. Coaches actually have to know that, hey, this guy is a good player can help us on our on the field. But besides that, ultimately if like college coaches don't even know who you are, if they don't even like you in the first place, if you have multiple scholarship offers and then you make the wrong decision in the school, like all those things are roadblocks across the journey of getting recruited and getting a scholarship offer and the ultimate goal of like having a great college football experience and potentially playing in the NFL. So a couple of the most important skills are marketing yourself, learning how to build relationships with college coaches, as well as decision making. Not just that final decision, but along the way. It's all things that I've learned throughout my journey and plenty of other recruits will vouch that, hey, that's pretty.