A short YouTube video by Trenton Luera advising how to get recruited and earn college football scholarship offers even with limited game film. The speaker stresses assembling a concise highlight tape made only of your best in-game plays (good cuts, circle player, no slow-mo/music) and—when game footage is scarce—recording additional on-field clips (route-running, position-specific drills) to prove college-level ability.
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How to get recruited, get interest from college coaches and get scholarship offers even if you don't have a lot of film. Now, no matter what, you need to put together a highlight tape with your in game clips. Coaches need to see you in pads making plays against other players. So no matter what you have to put together your highlight, the key is making sure that it's only your best plays. Even if you only have five plays that are like amazing, just put those together. Even though it might be short, doesn't matter. You're going to want to make sure it really looks good. So make sure the clips are cut right. You're circling yourself before the play. There's no slow mo or music or anything like that. Now your highlights all dialed in. But what else? Because just because you have a short little highlight tape does not mean you're going to get scholarship offers. The key to recruiting is proof. And so what I mean by that is just like in the highlights, how you're proving that you can play on the field, you need to prove outside of those highlights just because you don't have enough that you can play at the college level. So how do we do this? You need to get more clips. Obviously you can't go into games and get more games if you're already out of the season. But what you can do is go out onto the field and record yourself doing things that you would do in the game for a receiver. You'd go run routes.