Short advice video (by Trenton Luera) about identifying genuine college recruiting interest. The speaker warns that generic/mass-mailed camp invites usually indicate no personal evaluation; genuine invites include personalized references to film and specific coach interest. Coaches typically use camps as evaluation opportunities for players they are already watching rather than as primary discovery channels.
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If you're receiving generic invites from a school that you've never talked to before, you never talked to a single coach on that staff, the chances of them personally inviting you because they are actually interested in you, they've actually seen the tape and they're actually evaluating you is extremely low. Most of generic form is honestly the male ones. Anything by mail. If you're getting a camp invite by mail and it's not actually being handwritten by a coach, is more than likely just you were on their database somehow and they sent you off. So ideally, a personal invite has some personalization in there. They're not just saying, hey, name, but they're saying like, hey, saw your film. Really love the throws you make. Especially your. Your quarterback, you know, would love to see you down in our camp. Really like the film. Hopefully we can see you there. I know Coach so and so is wanting to see more of you, and I'd love to get you introduced to the rest of the staff. That is more personal. There's much more. A higher likelihood you're going to go to that camp and you're going to get some actual interest if you perform well at that camp. Coaches generally have a quick list of kids that they want to evaluate because you have to realize that they're using camps as an evaluation tool, not necessarily a discovery tool. So if you're not a kid that they're already looking at already, then it's going to be very hard to.