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Recruits that need advice
If your a junior or a senior you should start looking at College asap especially if you haven’t spoken with any coaches or scouts. Some high school football coaches will with hold information from their players, in hopes of keeping them focused and humble. I’m not going to say this is necessarily a bad thing. But on that note I’m definately not saying this is a good thing. My take on the situation is opportunity knocks but it doesn’t necessarily knock more than once. I recently spoke to a player who said one day during practice his coach nonchalantly said “Hey guess who called for you? UNC! but you can’t talk to them until the end of the season” What is that all about…? I think many of my supporters will agree with the fact that by the end of the season UNC will have found at least 20 other skilled athletes for the same position. To some extent I told this player to use his own judgement, use the provided resources the College football Coaches Directory and College Football Questionnaires.
Coaches that don’t help
Atleast 10 times a month I speak with players or families of players who have a coach that gives them the run around about making films for them to send to colleges. Boy have I got a few solutions:
Recording your own game footage means you own it. Your in control and you don’t have to wait for any coaches. And with youtube and all these video websites forget about it, a recruiting coordinator is very likely to find you. Even if you don’t pay $100 to some promising football recruiting agency (Save your $100 bucks Youtube is free)!!! Also if you have that game footage on your hard drive you can edit it and do so many things to ensure your give the football recruiting coaches what they want to see.
The reason you can pay someone is because when there is money involved or you take a business approach things are more likely to get done. You could actually pay someone who does photography to record your game footage. Now you will have a professionally recorded game film to send off to coaches. But back to the title of this section, what good is a coach that don’t help. He shouldn’t be called coach. For the love of god coaches support your players whether you think they are good enough or not, they want game film sent to USC atleast give them that much. What does it cost like $4 to ship a vhs or dvd. If the player isn’t good enough let the school decide not you as a high school coach. The doctor told me I’d never run again when I was 14 after a car accident. Man I ran like hell and got me a full scholarship and played on TV a bunch of times. Don’t let No one stop your dreams. And before I close players do your part and get into the best shape of your life!
Train hard
Coach Lewis