{"id":3197,"date":"2016-01-25T14:58:00","date_gmt":"2016-01-25T19:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gridironstuds.com\/blog\/?p=3197"},"modified":"2016-01-25T15:03:38","modified_gmt":"2016-01-25T20:03:38","slug":"the-order-of-your-clips-in-your-highlight-video-matter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gridironstuds.com\/blog\/the-order-of-your-clips-in-your-highlight-video-matter\/","title":{"rendered":"Why The Order of Your Clips in Your Highlight Video Matter"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"By: Chad Wilson – Editor In Chief – GridironStuds Blog<\/strong>
\nTwitter: @GridironStuds<\/strong><\/p>\n

Running a recruiting website I have seen my fair share of highlight videos over the years. \u00a0I can conservatively say that I have seen some 10,000 highlight videos in my time. \u00a0As with anything, \u00a0there are good highlight videos and there are bad ones. \u00a0Many of the times, \u00a0the bad videos stem not from the player being bad but from the video being poorly put together.<\/p>\n

Many high school prospects want to take the lazy route when it comes to putting together their highlights on Hudl. \u00a0By lazy, \u00a0I mean they just want to tag the plays from each game in the order in which the games were played and then submit the video. \u00a0So if your biggest play of the year didn’t happen until week 7, \u00a0viewers of your video are going to have to wait quite some time to get to the best of you. \u00a0I am not making an understatement here when I say that’s a poor strategy.<\/p>\n

As they saying goes, \u00a0first impressions last a long time, \u00a0so what’s the first impression you want to make on the viewer of your highlight video? \u00a0If it’s a college coach, you better make sure you punch him in the face with your talent immediately. \u00a0The construction of your highlight video is not some cinematic production that includes a plot that you need to keep a viewer engaged until the end of the movie. \u00a0That thought process is great if you are writing an episode of Law and Order or Scooby Doo but it’s a no go in the highlight video world.<\/p>\n

Many prospects feel that when they send a letter or their highlight video off to a coach, \u00a0that’s the only letter or highlight video he receives. \u00a0Some mistakingly believe that the coach has all day to watch your highlight video. \u00a0Newsflash, there are 1,000’s of you interested in that school and that’s from your state alone. \u00a0A college football coach does not have 5 minutes to wait to see if you did anything spectacular in your highlight video. \u00a0If your highlight video is not popping in those first 30 seconds then that back button or x button on the browser is getting clicked.<\/p>\n

Your first play is your best play. \u00a0Your second play is your second best play and so on. \u00a0Think of it as a reverse SportsCenter Top 10. \u00a0Within that first minute, \u00a0the college coach has probably decided if you can play for their program or not. \u00a0If he gets to the 4 minute mark in your highlight video, \u00a0it’s because the first 3;59 was just so damned good not because he really wants to see who murdered the lady in Apartment 2B.<\/p>\n

Don’t be lazy, \u00a0pay attention to how you put that highlight video together. \u00a0It may be the difference between getting put on the recruiting board or in the trash.<\/p>\n

For more help on recruiting matters, \u00a0email us at GridironStuds Recruiting \u00a0cwilson@gridironstuds.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By: Chad Wilson – Editor In Chief – GridironStuds Blog Twitter: @GridironStuds Running a recruiting website I have<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[767],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recruiting-school"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gridironstuds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gridironstuds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gridironstuds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gridironstuds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gridironstuds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gridironstuds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3197\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gridironstuds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gridironstuds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gridironstuds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}