Trent Loire, a former college NAIA quarterback and recruiting coach, explains why high school football players get overlooked (really "underseen"): coaches either don’t know about the player, the player isn’t good enough, or grades are an issue. He emphasizes marketing yourself to college coaches—especially via Twitter—by posting consistently, DMing/emailing coaches, attending camps, obtaining game film, and using social platforms (TikTok, Instagram) to increase exposure.
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If you're a high school football player getting overlooked in recruiting, you need to watch this video. Over the next minute, I'm going to show you exactly why you're getting overlooked, how to overcome that, and why it's basically impossible to get overlooked if you're doing the right things nowadays, just with social media and the advances in recruiting. First, if you don't know who I am, I'm Trent Loire. I'm a former college NAA quarterback and now I help kids get recruited. I have 11k followers on Twitter and now I help kids on TikTok and Instagram as well. So if you want recruiting advice, be sure to drop me a follow. First things first, you need to get rid of that thought about getting overlooked. You're not overlooked, you're just underseen. The thing with recruiting, if you're getting passed by coaches, it's either because they don't know about you in the first place, or you're just not good enough. That's really like the first two reasons. The third one is grades. But as long as your grades are good, you should be fine. So the biggest thing you should be focusing on is marketing yourself to college coaches. Now, there's a bunch of different words for this. Exposure, marketing, getting seen, whatever you want to call it doesn't matter. But the biggest place you're going to want to be is on Twitter, so you're going to want to post on there consistently. Start DMing coaches, email coaches, fellow questionnaires, go to camps, do anything you can do to get in front of college coaches. Get your film.