If you’ve been in recruiting for any amount of time,\u00a0 you have learned that it is not an exact science.\u00a0 What works for one recruit,\u00a0 may not work for another.\u00a0 What one college likes,\u00a0 another college may not.\u00a0 However,\u00a0 there are somethings in college football recruiting that hold true no matter who you are or where you want to go.\u00a0 Today,\u00a0 \u00a0we will discuss one of those things.<\/p>\n
Football is a rough game played by mostly big people.\u00a0 So,\u00a0 it stands to reason that college football recruiters every year head out on the trail looking for big and tall prospects.\u00a0 You can not fault colleges for pursuing these prospects as you can never have too many large people in a big man’s game.\u00a0 Let’s face it,\u00a0 this is not horse racing and they aren’t searching for jockeys.<\/p>\n
As I have discussed many times,\u00a0 you certainly have little control over your height outside of trying to get enough rest and eating good meals. Even with doing that,\u00a0 you are still a product of your genetics when it comes to how far off the ground you get when puberty is over for you.\u00a0 However,\u00a0 you do have some control over your size and you definitely have control over reaching your athletic maximum.<\/p>\n
In this article we will focus on this recruiting law:\u00a0 Develop Your Athleticism.\u00a0 Outside of looking for big prospects,\u00a0 college football coaches are looking for athletes.\u00a0 They are looking for prospects with a wide array of skills that can be put to use on a football field.\u00a0 Some prospects get so bogged down in just doing football that they forget to become athletes.\u00a0 College football coaches are looking at the potential in prospects.\u00a0 While recruiting you,\u00a0 they have to project what level of success you may be able obtain playing at the next level against their opponents.\u00a0 So,\u00a0 the fact that you rushed for 195 yards against East Side high school may not matter.\u00a0 That college is not playing against East Side and East Side may not have any prospects going to the colleges in that recruiter’s conference.<\/p>\n
You may have done absolutely nothing vs. East Side high school but on several plays you were firing off the football at defensive end,\u00a0 leaping over potential blockers and changed direction quickly to run a speedy WR out of bounds on a reverse.\u00a0 That alone could put you on the radar of college football teams over the running back on your team that plowed ahead into the soft middle of East Side’s defense to gut out almost 200 yards.\u00a0 If that running back has a limited amount of speed and athleticism,\u00a0 he’s no closer to that scholarship offer than he was while he was warming up during pre-game.<\/p>\n