A short YouTube monologue (creator Trenton Luera) explaining how college football recruiting and athletic scholarships work. The speaker shares personal experience—moving from high school backup to college quarterback with 25+ scholarship offers—offers a spreadsheet of college coaches, and emphasizes that full-ride scholarships are primarily at Division I FBS (Power 5 and Group of 5) while lower divisions offer fewer or no athletic scholarships (D3 offers none).
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Here's how college football recruiting actually works. Knowing all what I'm about to tell you took me from high school back quarterback to college football quarterback with 25 plus scholarship offers. First, if you want a free spreadsheet with 6,000 plus college coaches, emails DM me the word recruiting on Instagram and I'll send it to you. First, you need to understand how scholarships actually work. The thing is, most people don't realize this until it's too late. They get to their senior year and then they're like oh shoot, I'm screwed. I'm not gonna be able to play college football. The thing is, the only programs that offer full ride scholarships 100% of the time is 10 D1 FBS. So it's power 5 and group of 5 schools everyone else. So D1, FCS, D2, D3 NAIA and JUCOs either don't offer athletic scholarships or offer only partial or sometimes they'll offer full but they can be split up and most of the time will be split up. I won't go in the numbers because they're just boring, but if you want to look them up and on how many scholarships each school has then you can just look them up yourselves. The critical detail is that it gets lower and lower as you go down and D3s don't offer any athletic scholarships, including with California Jucos. So if you're getting.