YouTube video (by Trenton Luera, uploaded Jan 8, 2024) explaining why college coaches commonly "ghost" recruits and how recruits can improve communication. The speaker offers a free spreadsheet of 6,000 college coaches' emails via an Instagram DM, then lists three reasons for ghosting — the first two presented are: (1) recruits don't follow up consistently, and (2) recruits fail to get clear "next steps" in the recruiting process. The video gives practical advice on follow-up cadence and asking clarifying questions to move conversations forward.
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Got ghosted by a college coach. Here's why. First, if you want to save yourself hundreds of hours, then grab my free spreadsheet with 6,000 college coaches emails. All you have to do is DM me the word recruiting on Instagram and I'll send it to you for free. So ghosting is a common thing that happens in college football recruiting, and there's really three reasons why it happens Now. The first is the most common one. You just don't follow up enough. Most coaches will get back to you and let you know, hey, we're not interested, or tell you, hey, I'm just really busy. But the issue that happens is most recruits just message the coach back and then wait for a response and it never comes. And they just say, oh, the coach hates me, he's ghosting me off instead. You want to follow up and stay consistent. Don't just message them one more time. Message them multiple times over the course of multiple weeks. The second thing that leads to ghosting is not getting the next steps in the recruiting process. You need to be clear in your communication and ask good questions when you're talking to coaches. If coach is talking to you or responding your messages, it means they're interested, so don't get it twisted that they're not. But if you just leave off a conversation and never get a clear idea of where you're at in the process or.