Recruiting Tips: Navigating the Football Landscape Across Regions
3 min readDiscover the truth about recruiting and why it’s important to start locally. Learn from the experiences of successful coaches, as they discuss the advantages of staying close to home and offer valuable advice to aspiring athletes. #FootballRecruiting #RecruitingTips #LocalAdvantage #FootballCoaching #HighSchoolFootball #AthleteAdvice #RecruitLocally #RegionalRecruiting #FootballCommunity #FootballProspects
Doesn't mean that you'll always be that Way but that's where you're at and I Think that's a um one of the things that Recruits have to realize the only guys That they're looking at like this upside Thing with are guys that are really fast Or really big you know high measurables Right measurables everybody else is Really where they're at um and where You're at on your performance level is Where you're going to go I think that's A really a really interesting point on It and what about them going so outside Of their area because this is one of the The the Questions that sometimes parents ask me Um I'm interested in I'm from New Jersey And I'm interested in going to school in The South okay and me and Derek talk About this all the time because Everybody in New Jersey says foot New Jersey football's so great and it's it's Good it's good I mean and uh uh shano is Just doing a great job of starting to Get some of those guys right but uh um But the south is different like there's So many players in the South and when a Kid from the Northeast for example says He wants to go to school in the South And they go to a bunch of camps in the South and then they come away and they They they may be a FCS guy right because There's a lot of them in the Northeast And not maybe as many throughout the
South but they go down there looking for Something down there explain to to about How important it is to get recruited First in your area before before you Kind of venture out is is that something That's still a thing or has that changed That's the old way of thinking that's That's what I would have said that the Kids 10 years ago but I would tell a kid From the northeast or the West Coast or The Midwest if you want to play in the South then go to camp in the South and Compete right and and just see if you're Up to call The the the advantage that the South has In recruiting is that they have Spring Ball in high school so because they have Spring practice in high school those Coaches are able to evaluate those guys In in pads and in Camp and in Spring Ball and see if they can really play and Camp is not as important to those guys As it is to guys in other areas because You' saw them participate in the spring You've been able to watch them practice In pads and see how they respond to Getting coached by that High School Coach
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