Trenton Luera describes how he went from a high-school backup quarterback to a college quarterback receiving 25+ scholarship offers and argues that recruiting is a separate skill from on-field performance. He stresses that strong play alone won't guarantee recruiting success, encourages players to "play the recruiting game" rather than avoid it, and offers a free spreadsheet of 6,000+ college coach emails via DMing him on Instagram.
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I went from high school backup 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 IG and I'll get to you. One big thing I learned is that on field performance does not equal recruiting success. Don't get me wrong, you have to be a good player to play college football. But just because you perform well on the field doesn't mean that you're going to have a successful recruiting journey. The thing is, recruiting is its own game. It's its own skill. If you never learn it, then you won't be able to get recruited. And those that do figure it out. They're the guys that you see getting all the offers that you want. I was one of those guys. I didn't have any crazy performances. My stats weren't insane. My highlights were pretty solid, but that was about it. Yet my recruiting was above average, way better than it should have been. Ultimately, what you need to learn from this is you have to play the game. Too many people just hate it and they don't want to be a part of it. Instead, you need to embrace this and make sure that you're playing it the right way. Follow for more recruiting tips like this.