Short YouTube video (Trenton Luera, uploaded June 17, 2025) advising athletes about common recruiting mistakes. The speaker argues that claiming subjective traits ("hard worker", "leader", "character") in initial messages to college coaches is ineffective and often ignored; coaches prioritize observable talent and will verify character traits later through coaches or conversations.
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Things like hard worker, leadership and character traits are not going to get you recruited. And this is just a harsh truth that you need to hear. And now, don't get me wrong, you need to be hard worker. It's good to be a leader. But the mistake I see is people mentioning this to college coaches and their introduction messages putting, I'm a hard worker, I'm a leader in those messages to college coaches that don't know who you are is going to get your email sent to the trash. Because here's the thing, by you saying this, they're going to roll their eyes because first off, it's subjective. They don't really know if it's true. And of course, anybody that's trying to sell themselves to a college coach is going to say this thing. So they hear this a lot. So when we talk about standing out, the last thing you want to do is doing stuff that other people are doing. Now, that's probably like point number one. The second one is that they don't really care about those things as much as you think. Now, they do care about those things. Those are important parts and they can help you get recruited, but they're going to talk to your coach about those things and confirm it first. What they really want to see is like, okay, is your talent level even going to.