A short YouTube video by Trenton Luera explaining college-football recruiting roles, centering on the "area coordinator" coach: how staffs divide geographic recruiting responsibilities, the coordinator's duties (visits, staying in touch, monitoring recruits), and how escalation to position/higher coaches or the head coach depends on recruit ranking. The video contrasts smaller schools (smaller areas) with Power 5 programs (coaches cover multi-state regions and can fly for visits).
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If you're trying to get recruited to play college football, this is the number one coach that you're going to get in touch with. Now before we dive into that, if you want a free spreadsheet of 6000 plus college coaches emails, all you have to do is DM me the word email and Instagram, I'll send it to you for free. So the coach I'm talking about is your area coordinator. On every recruiting staff. They break up the recruiting into sections because obviously one coach can't recruit an entire area. So they give each coach an area to recruit on their own. This is where they travel for visits, check in with recruit. When they start to recruit kids, they give them the responsibility of staying in touch with kids in those areas. And then of course, if you're like a top recruit, then the head coach takes care of you and it kind of goes higher up the ladder if you're a more top recruit. But for the most part, they just break it up in the areas. Of course, the smaller the school is, the smaller the areas are. The bigger the school is, the bigger the areas are. So for example, Power 5 school, the coaches are going to break it up by like overall US Region. One coach is going to recruit like multiple states in the west coast, another coach is going to recruit multiple states in like the Midwest. That way they're hitting everybody they can and they have the resources to do that and actually like fly out for visits.