What high school recruits can expect during recruiting process
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Some of you can already imagine there is going to be an increase since of popularity. Your going to have supporters and haters. The supporters are people who are geniunely proud of you. They come to your games, actually they have came to your games before you were being recruited. The haters are going to be obvious, they won’t come to your games, they’ll make negative comments and might try to persuade you to do negative activities ie: smoking, drinking etc.
The reason behind this post is two fold so that the future college football player can know what to expect from the college football recruiting process and so everyone else not involved can know what the player has to go through. As always I will mention my personal experiences so you can see what I went through. I’ll be honest before I started being recruited I would occassionally make it to a house party every know and then. But I definitely noticed random people inviting me over and increased attention from girls. I wasn’t at all overwhelmed because I always believed that if you support someone you have to support them before they get famous or popular.
Recruiting Coaches visiting you at school
College recruiting coaches will come and talk to you at school randomly. I never knew when they would come, I never knew what schools were coming until they were there. I was randomly pulled out of classes to come down and speak privately with these coaches. They offer you things like scholarships, tell you about the free gear or apparrel that they would give you if you came, sneakers etc. They do everything they can to get you to come there.
Conversation between me and recruiting coach
I’ll be honest and say those conversations were so cut and dry here is what I can remember word for word:
Umass recruiting Coach: Yea we are really interested in you. We want to offer you a $100,000 scholarship. We will give you 2 pairs of sweatsuits and 2 pairs of sneakers that you can wear to all of the games. We are 40 minutes from your home in CT.
Me: So I get 2 pairs of sweats and sneakers?
Coach: Yes. So what do you think?
I didn’t know what to ask. The coach didn’t tell me about the offense they ran, the defense neither did he offer me to come up and watch a complimentary game. With that being said some coaches do the recruiting job a lot better than others. This conversation was so cut and dry….We want you, this is what we will do what do you think? That was basically our conversation. If I knew what I know now I’d obviously had asked more questions about me coming to a game about where they think I fit in, in there program etc. If you notice anything from the dialogue I think the coach thought he had me by telling me about the sweats and sneakers. Whoopity doo. Now granted at the University of Rhode Island we had some terrible travel clothes. And on that note I can’t say its not what you were to play because the high school I coach at right now is #5 in the State and all of our coaches are under amored like we are sponsored by them.
Surround yourself with good people
As a player you have to make good choices. Surround yourself with positive people not people that can hurt your career. I had a player last year who was a freshman tell me that he was picked up for baseball by a team captain who was going to smoke marijuana in the car. He then said coach you gone be so proud of me. He said I told him stop the car and I got out and called my mom to get me. I gave him a hug, because that is a good choice and that says something about him as a person. He has great character. You can only teach it but you can’t force great character on people. I had a teammate who got caught selling marijuana as a senior in high school. He still earned a full scholarship but his college career sucked. He was the one I wrote about who cried in front of the team at the end of our senior year. Don’t be that player.
On a closing note I just want to say to all the recruits don’t think for one moment that you don’t have support. Because I Coach Lewis will always support each and everyone of you who supports rmcfe.com