A short YouTube video by Trenton Luera about college football recruiting strategy and timing. The speaker argues that starting recruiting early is crucial—waiting risks falling behind, especially in competitive markets like California. He shares personal experience that he began recruiting going into his junior year and fell behind peers; advice: if a player has JV/varsity film they should start thinking about recruiting, otherwise focus on developing first.
Questions this video answers
Going into his junior year.
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I've never heard this from a parent of a college football recruit. I wish we would have gotten started later. Everyone talks about, oh, is it too early to start now? Should we wait? When's the right time to start? But the thing is, I've heard plenty of times, hey, we should have started earlier. I wish I would have known that, hey, we've got to get a jump on this. But I've never heard, wow, we started way too early and it actually hurt our recruiting. Now I get it. Recruiting can be demanding, and you want to make sure that you're hitting at the right time so that way you're not focused on the wrong thing at the wrong time. But recruiting is getting early and earlier, and there's so much competition nowadays that you have to get an early head start. Myself personally, I got started with my recruiting going into my junior year, and it was drastically way behind everybody else. Especially being a quarterback in a competitive market like California, it just put me way behind the curve. Now, it does depend on your situation. If you're a kid with no JV or varsity film, then you shouldn't even be worried about recruiting at that point. But if you have some JV film, or you at least have some JFarsi film, you definitely should start thinking about recruiting.