Short YouTube monologue (by Trenton Luera) advising high-school athletes who want to play college football that recruiting is their responsibility. The speaker emphasizes taking proactive steps—rather than relying on coaches, parents, or luck—to make oneself obvious to college coaches and secure scholarship opportunities.
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Literally teleporting back in time, talking to myself as a freshman who is in high school wanting to play college football. I wish I could have given myself this advice years ago. The thing is, no one is going to do your recruiting for you. No one's just going to hand you a scholarship offer. Your high school coach, your parents, no matter what, it's on you, not on them. So if you think, oh, my high school coach, he's helped some other guys get out, he's going to help me. Hopefully that's the case, but I wouldn't rely on it. You're essentially worrying about things that are outside of your control. That's like going to the football field, going to a game and saying, oh, hey, like my head coach has got this. I don't really need to pay attention to this game or lock in or anything like that. Instead, you need to take control of your recruiting. You need to make it so obvious to college coaches that you are the best fit for their program and do so much work on the recruiting side of things that you can't have any luck, that you don't need to rely on luck, that it is literally impossible for you to not get a scholarship because of how much effort you put into the recruiting process. Now, hey, if you're a stud, you're a five star, four star, then, hey, man, ignore my.