A college football coach told me he only wants full game film. Should I no longer make a highlight video during the recruiting process?
ShareIn the football recruiting world, myself and many others have stressed the important of the highlight recruiting video. We want you to spend hundreds upon hundreds of dollars or use hour after hour of your own time putting one of these together. And if you don’t, you will certainly hurt yourself in the football recruiting [...]
What do you do when your recruiting highlight video doesn’t come through?
ShareI recently was told a very sad story regarding a family and their journey through the recruiting process. The father of an athlete was doing all the things right early on. He had a company design a website for his son and was expecting the same people to put together his recruiting highlight video. This [...]
My recruiting highlight video: Should I mass post it online anywhere I can find?
ShareThese days, there are hundreds of different sites that you can post your recruiting highlight video to. Some, like Youtube, allow you to post any type of video. It doesn’t matter if it is sports, comedy, television, you can post anything there. A lot of the sites that have been recently popping up are the [...]
If I shouldn’t pay for a recruiting service to help, why should I pay to get a recruiting highlight video to be produced?
ShareI think I might just be lightening up a little bit overall on recruiting services. While they are not for everyone and can be expensive, there is no doubt that certain recruiting services can be helpful in situations where time is limited. For that I owe an apology to the all of those that work [...]
Cold sending highlight video tapes to college coaches and more on how they can factor into the football recruiting process
ShareI recently received an email from a very loyal reader of Recruiting-101. This helpful aunt has been doing everything she can to help her nephew in the recruiting process and that includes gathering as much recruiting information as possible to help him hopefully land a scholarship down the line. And from what she has emailed [...]
One thing to think about when putting your highlight video and recruiting profile together
ShareI recently had an email from a reader wondering why exactly he had not been hearing back from college coaches. This athlete was sending out a recruiting profile to the coaches and only had heard back from a small number of them. In other articles, I had talked about how some athletes hear back from [...]
What to do and not to do on recruiting highlight videos
ShareI have had a chance to look at hundreds and possibly thousands of highlight recruiting videos over the last decade. During that time, I have seen a great deal of outstanding highlight videos as well as some terrible videos that would not get the top player in the country a scholarship. The transition from VHS [...]
More on football highlight videos, recruiting highlight videos, and highlight tapes
ShareI had previously been writing an article a week on what you needed to avoid on recruiting highlight videos, I have actually taken some time off writing about this subject. But after recently cutting a number of different tapes, I saw a lot of things that I thought needed to be mentioned. With junior football [...]
Should you wait on your high school coach to make a recruiting highlight video?
ShareWhen requesting recruiting highlight videos from athletes, one thing I often hear from them is that they are waiting until their coaches get done putting it together. For families where money is an issue, this is probably a smart thing to do. But for those who have college programs requesting tape, it may be smart [...]
Including only scholarship worthy plays in your recruiting highlight video
ShareFor some sports like football, an outstanding recruiting highlight video can make or break what type of attention that you will receive in the recruiting process. I have stressed for years the importance of having a quality product put together and the impact that it can have on you. But in working on one recently, [...]
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