A short YouTube advice clip (by Trenton Luera) warning recruits about a common highlight-video mistake: not placing their best play first. The speaker explains that coaches typically only watch the first 30–60 seconds of a highlight, so ordering clips from best to worst-best grabs attention, increases the chance coaches will watch more, and can lead to more recruiting interest and scholarship opportunities.
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This is the biggest mistake most recruits make when making their highlight. And by making this mistake, you're making coaches disinterested in you and losing out on scholarship opportunities. Now, this mistake I'm talking about is not putting your best place first. The issue is most recruits think about highlights as like this movie. They think they can't put their best play first because then as a coach goes through the highlight, it's only worse placed from there and then it doesn't really show them in a good light. That's not true. A coach is not going to watch your full highlight video because they don't necessarily have the time to do that. They're really only looking for the first 30 seconds to a minute of your highlight video to get an idea of what kind of player you are, what your best plays look like. Because if your best plays aren't impressive to them, then your average plays aren't going to impress them either. So instead of trying to order your highlights super strategically, thinking, oh, my first play is like my sixth best play and my best play is not even until my fourth play, just order it from best play to your worst best play and you'll grab coaches attention right from the start, allowing you to get more of their time and show more video to them, allowing you to further prove why they should recruit. And this will lead to more interest and more so.