A short YouTube clip in which the speaker (Trenton Luera) recounts a personal recruiting anecdote to show that junior varsity (JV) film can still lead to college recruitment. He describes meeting then-San Jose State head coach Brent Brennan, being contacted by the area recruiter for 559 Central California, and being asked to provide varsity film despite serious conversations about recruitment.
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Just because you only have JB film does not mean you can't still get recruited. Now, this is me when I was a little boy, little junior. And this is me standing next to the former head coach of San Jose State, Brent Brennan. He's now the head coach over at Arizona, which is Power 4 school. Now, I did not have any varsity film at the time of this picture, yet I still was able to get recruited by this school and have serious conversations with them. Now, I didn't have this conversation with him. I had a conversation with the area recruiter. Because in recruiting, if you don't know, most schools group the recruiting by area. And so for San Jose State, there was a certain coach that recruited my area, which was the 559 Central California. So I had a conversation with this coach for a good while. He actually pulled me aside from the group and said, hey, man, really like your film, but it's jv. We need to see more varsity stuff, but let's stay in touch. And so, yes, I'm not going to get an offer. My film wasn't amazing as a JV sophomore. But the key point here is that you can still get recruited using JB film and that the coach knew who I was prior to the.