If you are a college football recruit, coaches are making contact with you, and you are not quite sure what to do next, the following information can help you.

There Are No Guarantees In Recruiting

First of all, you must realize that even though you are receiving letters, emails, or even phone calls from college football coaches, it doesn't mean that you will ultimately be offered a scholarship or even a spot on the roster.

Coaches normally recruit 5 to 10 players for each spot on the roster they are trying to fill. That means you are competing with those 5 to 10 athletes for the same spot. The coach will ultimately offer the spot to the athlete he feels will best help the program continue to be successful or become successful.

Maintain Contact With Coaches

Once a college coach has made contact with you, your job as a college football recruit is to remain in constant contact with him. Make sure you are sending regular updates about your accomplishments on the field and how your high school team is doing. If you get a glowing article written about you in the latest newspaper or online sports report, make sure the coach gets a copy.

The last thing you want to do is to assume that once a coach has made contact with you that he will stay in contact with you forever. You need to keep the communication lines open to make sure you don't fall off the coach's radar.

Make Sure You Stay Academically Qualified

The absolute worst mistake you can make after learning you are a football recruit is to let your grades slip and become unqualified to play. Coaches want players who can remain qualified to play by NCAA or NAIA rules. If you let you grades slip, you will most likely not get an offer to play.  If you barely stay qualified to play, the coach may assume you are a risk not worth taking.

Get Some Footage To The Coach

If you have a good game on the field, try to get the footage from your coach. Once you have some film to share, send it to the coaches who are interested in you or at least post it online so that they can access it. Football coaches love watching game film.  As they say, the tape doesn't lie!

Make Sure You Stay Hungry

As I said earlier, just because coaches have started to show some interest in you and made you a target of their recruiting, it doesn't mean they will ultimately sign you to a scholarship. It means they are observing you and they will make a decision about signing you at a later date. Keep working hard on the field, the weight room, and in the classroom. Stay hungry and don't get overly confident about being signed to a scholarship.

Summary

Once you become a college football recruit, your job has really just begun. You need to continue marketing and promoting yourself to coaches until you start getting acutal scholarship offers to sign.

If you are not being recruited at all, you need to start making contact with college coaches right away. Coaches will almost always be happy to hear from you if you have what it takes to play at their level of competition. Send your athletic resume and a personal letter to them as the essential first step to being recruited.

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