What questions should I ask college football or basketball coaches on phone calls?
ShareI recently wrote an article on the site related to how to act when college coaches call. With this being busy such a time for seniors who have college potential in their chosen sport, there is no doubt that if you have the skills and have taken the steps to market yourself these coaches should [...]
Advice on sending out senior game tapes to college coaches during the football recruiting process
ShareOnce your junior season of football ends, I believe it is extremely vital to put together a recruiting highlight video that you can send to college coaches and post online at a number of free websites. But what about seniors during the middle of the season? If you have followed the steps outlined in The [...]
How do I get college coaches to watch my recruiting highlight video?
ShareI wrote recently about how you should not waste your time “cold sending” recruiting highlight tapes to college coaches. That is something I doubt I will ever change my stance on. But it also had a number of users asking about what they need to do to get their highlight videos in front of college [...]
Sending out highlight videos without prior contact is not the way to go in football recruiting
ShareI have always seemed to stress this put I must talk about it again. Do not send out tape unless a coach requests it: It makes me sick when recruits tell me that they send out game tape and don’t get a response. The reason is because it is not a smart thing to do [...]
Breaking down an athletic recruiting letter from a college coach
ShareOne of the most interesting parts of running this site is that I get all kinds of interesting emails that help give me a better perspective of the overall athletic recruiting process. And when I get that information, I try to share it will as many readers as possible on Recruiting-101. I recently had an [...]
Levels of Athletic Recruiting Interest
ShareI wrote sometime ago about the different levels of recruiting interest. This is a piece that continues to need updating because of the changes that are going throughout the athletic recruiting process. With scholarship being the goal, it is always interest for athletes to see where the interest that they have been getting ranks. In [...]
Former Nebraska head coach Tom Osborn on the football recruiting process and how it has changed
ShareThe Nebraska Rivals website, HuskerIllustrated.com, caught up with former Cornerhusker coach Tom Osborn. This legendary coach is now the Athletic Director in Lincoln, Nebraska. Osborn has spent most of his life coaching and found a great deal of success winning ball games with Nebraska. One of their writers, John Talman, caught up with Osborn and [...]
Should I make a football recruiting tape for my sophomore year?
ShareI always stress the importance of making a recruiting highlight video after your junior season. This is a complete no brainer and something that I stress for anyone wanting to be evaluated by college coaches. You may not end up with a scholarship but a good highlight tape could help eventually open some recruiting doors [...]
What is the magic number of plays that should be included on a football highlight video to receive a scholarship offer?
ShareRecruiting-101 talks constantly regarding the importance of putting together a highlight tape, especially during the football recruiting process. And since every reader follows this advice (right?), you are working on figuring out the best way to showcase the skills of an athlete to be evaluated by a college coach. But for those that go through [...]
My football highlight recruiting video: What positions must be highlighted?
ShareI have always stressed the importance of making a highlight video during the football recruiting process where you are marked/highlighted early in each play so that the college coach knows where you are at. This allows them to watch you shed a block, juke a tackler, or basically do something great and know exactly where [...]
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