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A verbal offer is not a scholarship.

They get pulled. Staffs leave. A board changes in a week when somebody better commits.

Keep the other 5 schools warm after the first offer. Keep sending film. Keep taking visits.

Nothing is real until it is in writing with a number on it, and families relearn that the hard way every February.

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Talent gets you into the pool. Logistics get you out of it.

Labeling clips with down and distance. Pulling the core course audit. Sending the 14th email. Getting the 40 verified by somebody with a name on it.

None of that is fun and all of it is what separates kids who get recruited from kids who were just as good.

The unglamorous half is the half almost nobody does.

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One clip with 200,000 views does not put you on a board.

Coaches saw it, thought it was nice, and never learned your position or your class year. Virality is not evaluation.

20 clips that prove you can play a spot in college does put you on a board.

Build the case, not the moment.

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Recruit the schools that are recruiting you.

If a staff answers your email, watches your film, and invites you to camp, that is a real school. Go recruit them back, hard.

If a program has ignored 6 emails over 8 months, that is information. Not a challenge.

Kids spend 2 years chasing one logo and miss 10 schools that were already interested.

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Build a list of 15. Three reaches, nine realistic, three safeties.

Then email all 15 every month with something new.

Most kids aim 3 levels above where they actually are, send everything to programs that were never taking them, and run out of calendar in January.

A list of 15 produces offers. A list of 6 FBS schools produces a very quiet February.

How many schools are on your list right now, honestly?

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Ask your coach to make 3 calls. Not 30.

Three, to programs where the level actually fits or where he knows somebody.

A warm call moves you from an unread email to a name with a voice attached, which is a completely different category of prospect.

Most kids never ask him at all. Ask in the spring, not in January when it is a favor.

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An injury year is not a lost year.

Your old film still exists. Your transcript still moves. Your spring weight room number still counts.

What a staff wants to know is what you did with the 6 months. A kid who came back stronger with better grades is a story coaches actually like.

Tell them directly instead of hoping nobody notices the gap in the film. They always notice.

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Four years of snaps at a D2 or NAIA program beats 4 years of scout team somewhere with a nicer stadium.

Reps are how you develop. And if you ever want to transfer up, nobody moves up on film they never got to make.

Pick where you will actually play, not where it sounds best at Thanksgiving dinner.

That decision gets made for the wrong reason more than any other one in recruiting.

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Small school is not a disadvantage anymore.

Film travels. A coach 3 states away can watch you tonight from a program with 300 kids in it, and he will, if the film is good and he can find it.

What a small school actually costs you is foot traffic. No staff is wandering through your building in April.

So you do the reaching. Film and email beat geography now, which was not true 15 years ago.

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Post your reel in the morning.

Coaching staffs are in meetings all afternoon.

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Your high school coach is the most credible reference you have.

College staffs trust a coach who tells them the truth about kids more than any film, profile, or number.

Which means the relationship is part of your recruiting. Be early. Be coachable. Be the kid he can vouch for without pausing first.

One phone call from him outperforms 50 emails from you.

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Parents: his social media is part of his file.

Look at it today, not after a coach does.

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Everything a coach needs should be one click away.

Current highlight. Full game. Verified numbers. Real height and weight. GPA. Transcript. Your coach's contact. Your contact.

Every extra click between a coach and one of those is a chance for him to quit, and he has 40 other kids to get through tonight.

Kids with worse film and better organization get recruited over you. That happens all day.

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Parents: the money conversation is yours.

Ask about cost of attendance, not just scholarship percentage.

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Every staff has somebody checking what you post before they spend an official visit on you.

They are not looking for perfect. They are looking for a reason to worry, and one post is enough to supply it.

Delete it now, not after somebody asks about it.

If you would not want it read out loud in a staff meeting, it is already a problem.

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Parents, the fastest way to hurt your son's recruiting is to do his part for him.

Your job is logistics and leverage. Book the visits. Pay for the camps. Keep the transcript current. Drive the 4 hours.

His job is the email and the phone call. A coach who only ever hears from a parent assumes the kid does not want it.

That assumption is usually wrong and it is almost always fatal.

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Parents, here are the 3 questions almost nobody asks.

What does the aid package look like in actual dollars, all 4 years. Who else are you recruiting at this position in this class. What happens to this offer if the staff changes.

Coaches respect all 3. They expect them from families who have done this before.

The answers are where the real decision lives, and you will not get them unless you ask out loud.

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Parents: if you are handling the inbox, he is learning nothing he will need at 19.

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Nobody is coming to find you.

There is no scout driving to your Friday night game to discover a kid nobody emailed about. That is a movie.

Coaches work from boards. Boards get built from film that arrived in an inbox.

The kid who gets recruited is almost never the best player in the county. He is the best player who made himself impossible to miss.

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Parents: the highlight tape is not the place to be a perfectionist.

Sent beats perfect.