High school recruiting process questions.

I mean, what do you need to know? How to get noticed? Clearinghouse stuff?

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Left side has the chapters. He can be contacted now I do know that.

Thanks, where can he send his film?

That’s awesome. I’ll add a couple things of note that can help during the process.

1) Grades: sometimes if a kid is a crazy blue chipper, schools will make things work but the majority of the time, you gotta have the grades right. I used to be in coaching and the amount of kids we had that had to go to some JUCO in the frickin Dakotas because of grades was mind numbing.

2) Discipline: oftentimes, your head coach can be a great option by using his contacts to get people to look at a kid. He’s gotta be a good kid though. Lots of bridges have been burned with colleges because a HSHC pumped up a kid to a college who took him and he ended up being a turd. Make sure he isnt getting written up and that discipline sheet stays clean.

3) Camps: try to make as many camps as you can in the summer that the coach will allow. I think LSU lets all the state coaches come to their camp to evaluate kids. Have him in those camps so he can be on display.

4) HUDL highlights: this echoes off of point #2 a little bit. If your HC has good contacts, he can send them over the film and they’ll be more likely to actually look at it. Try to get the emails of coaches at colleges that he has a realistic shot of being a take at and send them his film often.

5) Be realistic: we had kids oftentimes that wanted to be LSU, Alabama, Georgia, USC type kids but realistically were LC, ULL, Tech, Southeastern type guys. If your kid isn’t good enough to play in the SEC, spend time sending tape to schools he could realistically play at.


6) Focus on Friday nights: I’ve seen it too many times where kids were so worried about getting signed that they became cancers on their own teams and didn’t perform like they needed to on Fridays. I can’t stress this point enough, if your son makes plays on Fridays and maybe even gets some recognition (all district, player of the weeks, all state) it can go a long way in getting him noticed. If your son has the grades, he’s not a character risk AND he’s got good tape, colleges notice.


Like anything else in life, who ya know plays a big role. So definitely hit the camp circuits in the off-season, go to the Nicholls camp for linemen in the summer. The more connections y’all make, the better chance he has to get noticed. And always always always take care of the things you can like getting good grades and staying out of trouble.

I appreciate the advice. He really is a great kid, has no disciplinary issues, and stays on honor roll. Yea we are gonna try some camps this summer. I agree he’d be happy with any school he could continue playing and get a degree.

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For sure brother. Happy to help. If you wanna post your email, I’d love to answer any more questions y’all have throughout the process. I haven’t coached in a bit but I still know a few folks in college. Best of luck

My son is a ‘25…coaches can contact your ‘26 right now. They opened up the ‘25 and ‘26 classes together on August 1st.

We’ve been at it for a bit now, but still some things are cloudy to us. Coaches have rules about talking to parents when they come for ‘evaluation’ visits…but they can work out the boys.

There are many nuanced things about recruiting…you want to be invited to work out for the coach not on your position camp day…get the coach in a much smaller group.