Trenton Luera, a former college quarterback, explains why calling college coaches is usually a waste of time during the recruiting process and begins to offer better alternatives. He notes that roster/website phone numbers often route to shared office lines or assistants, are not personal cell numbers, and that unknown incoming numbers are frequently ignored—making voicemails ineffective.
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Tell you the truth, why you don't want to actually call college coaches and what you want to do instead. Calling college coaches can be a waste of time, and that's the last thing you want to do in recruiting when things are happening so fast. So I'm going to break down why that is a waste of time and just what you can do instead to actually get scholarship opportunities. First, if you don't know who I am, I'm Trent Lora. I'm a former college quarterback and I help kids just like you get recruited. So first, why should you not even be college coaches? You may know if you've ever looked at a college coach website directory, there'll be the emails on there and there will be phone numbers. Now, sometimes you'll even notice that all the phone numbers are the same. That's because it's all routing back to, you know, some assistant where all the calls are taking place. And sometimes it'll be different. You'll give that number a call and they just won't pick up. And that's the case for most of them because these aren't actual cell phone numbers. They're just the office phone numbers. And most of the time, if they see a number that they don't know, they know that that's a public number that anybody can call and they're just probably not going to pick it up. So you can't call it. The leave a voicemail and hey, maybe they pick up. But most of the time you're wasting your time waiting for them to pick up, leaving that voicemail when.