A short YouTube video by Trent Loire (former college quarterback) giving recruiting advice about common mistakes players make when messaging college coaches. Main advice in this chunk: keep messages short and to the point ("it's too long") and avoid giving unnecessary information ("too much information"). The creator also offers a free spreadsheet of coach emails and asks viewers to follow.
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These are the three most common mistakes I see recruits make in messages to college coaches. So if you can fix these, then you're going to probably double, triple the responses that you get from college coaches. And also, if you're new here, don't know who I am. I'm Trent Loire. I'm a former college quarterback. So be sure to follow for more content like this. And also if you want a free spreadsheet of 6000/plus college coaches emails and all you have to do is click the link in my bio, get it for free. Number one is it's too long. This is the biggest one. Too many recruits try to, like, explain their story and all of this and give the coach a bunch of context. But the thing is, like, coaches aren't trying to read all that. They're just trying to watch your video and evaluate you as a player. And that's all you need to do. So keep it short and to the point and trust me, you'll get more responses. You'll at least get more eyeballs on your film. That's what you're ultimately trying to do with these messages. Number two is too much information. This goes along with too long. But the more information you provide, the more you overwhelm the coach. And sometimes you're going to hurt your chances because the key is you want to provide either information that you need to provide or that it helps you. And so if you're providing a bunch of information that doesn't really help you and they don't need.