🚨RECRUITING ADVICE🚨
I often get questions from recruit, parents, coaches asking how they can make themselves/their student-athletes more “attractive” as a recruit.
Here are a few nuggets from one D1 position coach.
1. Have above a 3.0 GPA- If you aren’t disciplined/successful in the classroom I don’t have a reason to believe you’re gonna be successful in college when your work load increases. One surefire way to NOT get recruited is to be on life support academically.
2. Be a weight room animal- God and your parents ultimately determine your length, frame and athletic ceiling, but you can make yourself more attractive as a recruit if you increase your strength, size and speed through strength and conditioning and speed training. I look for guys who live in the weight room and have a track record of “straining.” Football is a game of explosion, physicality, speed and redirection. If you’re not developed physically get your butt underneath that bar!
3. Be Coachable and a good teammate- I don’t want to recruit kids who aren’t coachable and who are selfish teammates. A full cup can’t be poured into. Coaches have to consider locker room dynamics, and a guy who doesn’t make his teammates better but is consistently a hassle to deal with, won’t be as attractive as a recruit.
4. Effort effort effort- I love guys that play multiple positions, sports, and never leave the field. Don’t take plays off. How’s your effort on the backside of plays? Guys that play like “their hair is on fire” and sideline to sideline will shoot up a coaches short list.
5. Make a good high light tape- a lot of coaches don’t watch whole games so the ORDER of your tape really matters! Think substance not length. Put your best plays on there first (TDs, sacks, TFLs, etc). Don’t speed up your tape, make sure you always high light yourself before the play begins, don’t have songs that use profanity on your tape.
6. Compete against and beat the best- what you do between the white lines is the MOST important evaluation piece but doing well at regional and National camps is REALLY important. Run the 40 yard dash and other drills (L drill, 5-10-5, etc) ONLY if you have practiced those drills before hand and will time well. It’s better to not post a time than to post a bad one. Beating players that already have offers by D1 schools is a good way to give coaches a frame of reference of your skill level.
7. Use social media well- there is nothing wrong with DMing and emailing coaches and recruiting coordinators, but less is more. You’re better off sending your tape 3 times a year to a coach than 30. The more coaches you send it to, the better chance you’ll have. You don’t need 133 teams to like you, you need 1 to love you.
Let me know in the comments if you have found these 7 tips helpful and want to see more posts like this! College coaches, what other tips would you add?
God bless and Boomer Sooner!
Coach Chavis
Edge Coach
Oklahoma Football