GET YOUR FILM OUT EARLY AND OFTEN

If you are receiving a personal phone call from Jim Tressel or Charlie Weis, you probably don’t need to promote yourself. All the colleges know the big high school stars, especially in football and basketball.
There are other boys and girls in other sports who are good enough to play in Mid Major, D-IAA or D-II, where scholarship money is available, but two things happen. The smaller schools don’t know about them because they don’t have the recruiting budgets, and neither the kids nor their parents know how to market them.
Major programs have huge recruiting budgets for travel and research.
Schools like USC and Notre Dame recruit nationally but schools like Elon or Illinois State recruit regionally. Somebody’s got to get the word out. High Coaches don’t always have the time and budgets. They’ve got the next game to get ready for. They’ve got a full teaching load. They’ve got their own families to take care of. Who’s most interested in a kid? The parents. What do they do? When it comes to recruiting, they sit and wait.
Don’t be misled if you receive a letter of interest from a college. Receiving a letter means a coach knows your name and that you play his/her sport. Letters are mass mailings.They might send out hundreds of letters. Until they invite you for an official visit, they’re not recruiting you.
Get your film out early and often and to many schools as you see fit....and 10 is definitely not enough...get yours out to 50 plus schools that can see your skills. Click on http://www.mygamefilm.com/. Utilizing today's technology this site has made it easy to email recruiting video. This Do-It-Yourself recruiting tool provides both the guidance and resources for athletes to email their highlight film and profiles directly to college coaches across the country. It also provides a Feedback Scoreboard showing them when coaches click on a link (in the email) to view their film. No more sending tapes/DVDs and wondering if anyone has seen them!
Be proactive make sure college coaches are aware of your desire to play and find out where you fit!