{"id":3616,"date":"2018-08-14T12:09:48","date_gmt":"2018-08-14T17:09:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gridironstuds.com\/blog\/?p=3616"},"modified":"2018-08-14T12:09:48","modified_gmt":"2018-08-14T17:09:48","slug":"your-half-an-effort-will-not-get-you-a-full-scholarship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gridironstuds.com\/blog\/your-half-an-effort-will-not-get-you-a-full-scholarship\/","title":{"rendered":"Your Half An Effort Will Not Get You A Full Scholarship"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

I will see it from time to time and be amazed by it.\u00a0 Across this country,\u00a0 student athletes are suiting up to play football and with it arm themselves with some entitlements.\u00a0 Allow me to pat you down and take some of those offensive weapons off of you as they will likely harm someone,\u00a0 mainly yourself.<\/p>\n

The entitlements come in many forms.\u00a0 I can count on many hands and many feet the amount of times I have received a DM or email from a high school football player who tells me they want to go D-1.\u00a0 Ok,\u00a0 well that’s fine,\u00a0 you should aim high but what have you done to earn a D1 scholarship?\u00a0 If your effort on the practice field and in the classroom is not to the utmost of your abilities then I am not sure what you think is supposed to happen here.\u00a0 Despite what some athletes may think,\u00a0 just because you play high school football does not mean you are entitled to a scholarship.<\/p>\n

If you did not attend workouts,\u00a0 go to camps, get in extra lifts, running or technique sessions or study film,\u00a0 go through a playbook or otherwise immerse yourself in the improvement of your game,\u00a0 I am not quite sure how you think you will catch the eye of recruiters.\u00a0 Perhaps you have looked at a lazy athlete on your team or a school nearby who has received scholarship offers and you think you can do the same.\u00a0 Well,\u00a0 that guy might be 6’4″ or is otherwise blessed athletically.\u00a0 He will get more looks than you but at some point he’ll have to work at it or see his career end.\u00a0 Whether you are blessed like that or not,\u00a0 being lazy about your college scholarship pursuit will not energize a college coach about you as a prospect.<\/p>\n

Division I college football is for the elite players in the country.\u00a0 This football season roughly 1,000,000 high school students will play football.\u00a0 There are not 1,000,000 football scholarships available annually.\u00a0 In fact,\u00a0 here is the math<\/p>\n