Trenton Luera, a former college quarterback, explains why high school head coaches often don't help with recruitment: they prioritize winning and current players over future prospects. He offers two paths forward: change your coach's mindset or find a way to make yourself useful to them anyway.
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If you're trying to get recruited to play college football, here's why. Your high school head coach might not actually be helping you as much as you think and what you can do to fix it or just overcome it in general. If you're new here and don't know who I am, I'm a former college quarterback. So be sure to follow for more content like this. So the biggest reason why most high school head coaches aren't going to help with recruiting is because they don't see like a direct relevance to winning games and getting kids recruited. Of course, you and I both know if kids get recruited, they get scholarship offers that can pull more kids to that high school. And that way it just kind of repeats the cycle like you see with the bigger programs. But of course, not everybody's long term that's thinking of this. And so they don't really see that. And they just focus on the players that are there. They focus on winning games and they also just don't have a lot of time. So they don't really see the point in putting that time into getting kids recruited. That's fine. You can definitely overcome this. There's two ways to go about it. Number one, probably most difficult, you can try and change his mind. You can try and get him to be more supportive. The bare minimum support that would be the most helpful is just being someone that you can push. Coaches too.