College Football Recruiting -Behind the scenes
What I am talking about here is College Football Recruiting behind the scenes. This is the College Football BluePrint and the idea is that it provides a blueprint as far as everything that goes on with college football. The focus for the last entry has been recruiting and so will this entry.
College Recruiting
Out of Site Out of Mind
Out of site and out of mind refers to the portion of the recruiting process that goes unseen. When you send in your tape you don’t know who is watching it and how they are evaluating it. I have some experience with evaluating high school football players game film. What they look for:
Are you going full speed from the snap to the whistle?
Are you loafing, or taking plays off when the ball doesn’t come your way?
Are you finishing your blocks or even holding blocks long enough?
How do you respond after bad plays and good plays?
How you respond after a bad drive and a negative drive (drive= offensive or defensive series)
Those are some of the things that College Football Coaches look for when they evaluate a high school football players film.
What you can do as a player
Early in your high school career you can fill out questionnaires. The idea with these questionnaire is that they help college football coaches find out about high school football players. They look over your profile height, weight, 40 yard dash time and take note of those stats based on what their program is looking for in their recruits. After this process when NCAA rules permit a coach may contact you or send you some mail. Then over time you will begin building relationships with different recruiting coordinators.
What happens if you don’t get recruited
If you don’t get recruited but you have a desire to play College Football it is as simple as marketing yourself. Get your game film together and contact RMCFE staff or simply go to The College Football Coaches Directory:College Football Coaches Directory where you can get contact information for College Football coaches. Also as far as scholarship money, let me reiterate that RMCFE has a scholarship page: RMCFE Scholarships
In closing, when it comes to recruiting there is a lot that goes unseen. I have listed things that you can do as a player: questionnaires, marketing yourself/contacting coaches and using our scholarship resources. As far as your game film it is up to you to prove to the college football coaches that are evaluating your film that they need you in their program. Well until next time…
RMCFE
Scholarship Support
College Football Coaches Directory