The Five Secrets of Recruiting that You Need to Know
#1. You must market yourself to colleges.
Make a Highlight Video, with your two best halves of the season and send them out to everyone. What does this mean? Via email, via mail, and by phone to let them know your video is coming. Include not just your stats but also the awards you won at combines, camps and such. The more you market yourself the better chance you have to get recruited or at least looked at!
#2. You must attend reputable events only, do not waste your time on non essential events.
What does that mean. Yes, combines do matter; college coaches look at the stats and award winners of those reputable events. Which events mean something?
1. National Underclassmen Combine
2. Ultimate 100 Camp and Top Prospect Camp
3. Nike Football Camp
4. Under Amour Football Combine
5. All American Combines (US Army, Under Amour, NUC)
6. Elite 11 QB Camp
7. All College Elite Camps (I.E. Florida’s Friday Night Lights, Texas’s Elite Camp) Camps that the college runs in the summer for Elite athletes only. There regular camps are not elite, just there invite camps
8. College Junior Days and Spring Ball, The more you can have the college coach see you (if you are indeed a recruit) the better chance you have of them getting to know you and you getting to know them.
#3. College coaches do not watch every athlete’s film.
It is important to know, if you are not someone they know about or are interested in, they are not going to watch your film. Period. Calling them will not get them to watch your film, but if your coach calls them and tell them you are legit, there will be a greater chance of getting it looked at. It is important to market yourself, but understand that if they are not interested they will not watch your film. College coaches create a ranking board…for example. John Smith #1, Rick Johnson #2, Eric Thomas #3. That means that they want John Smith First, Rick second and Eric third, they will not offer rick or Eric unless john is no longer interested.
#4. College Coaches can pull your offer.
If you get an offer that does not guarantee that offer will be there when your ready for them, you must make sure that you still have that offer, many times college coaches over offer in order to ensure they get the players they need, so if you don’t commit to them, they are not going to be committed to you, so it is important to decide where you want to go as quickly as you can in order to get the scholarship offer you want. Only the very very top elite can pick and choose…that means the top 100 players in the country only.
#5. College scholarships are one year renewable.
That’s right, 1 year renewable scholarships. So when you hear, John Smith got a scholarship for five years or four years to North Carolina, which is not actually true. The truth is he has a one year scholarship that is renewable every year. Now most coaches honor that year in and year out, but if you aren’t doing the job on the field or you cause problems on or off the field, the coach can choose NOT to renew your scholarship. Case in point, when Lane Kiffin took over at Tennessee, following spring ball, Coach Kiffin, decided not to renew 11 athletes’ scholarships. That is correct. It is up to you to perform and do the job, if you don’t you may not get your scholarship renewed.
Coach Schuman's Tips for College Recruiting (Part 1 of 2)
Coach Schuman's Tips for College Recruiting (Part 2 of 2)
David Schuman
President, Schuman's Enterprises
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