Monday, June 24, 2013

Why High School Football Recruiting Starts Young

By Linda Maynard


There are a lot of high school athletes who have dreams of making it big. It is usually at this stage in their lives when people start to realize just how talented they are at what they are doing. When high school football recruiting scouts start to make calls to colleges on behalf of their players it is when the real fun begins.

There are a lot of things that are laid out in front of some of these kids that really have a shot. It is always in their best interest to look at everything and make sure that they make the right choice for their future, not for anyone else. These kids have played their respective sport for a long time, usually since they were little kids.

That is really the story of how to make it to the big leagues. The story of how other people can help. These kids have to start taking their dreams very seriously way before high school. They need to start being serious in middle school. They start playing in about 7th grade. But they can start earlier than that with pop Warner teams.

So for the scouts that find the kids early, these are the traits they are looking for. They want to get the kids that are playing middle school sports sure. But they will sometimes find kids that are not playing the sport and try and talk them into switching from maybe baseball to football. The colleges pay close attention to all of this.

Once they get into high school they start to have a more difficult time with things. Everything becomes a lot harder for them than it used to be because life gets harder. They will have a lot more work to do academically and they will also be putting more time in on the field as well. They will be working harder than ever.

When they start playing they will already need to start thinking about where they want to go to college. It is impossible to play for the NFL if you do not go to a good college. The high school players need to start thinking about where they want to go because they will start to be scouted almost right away.

The kids who are left are the ones who truly want to be there. They are the kids who will work even harder to prove to everyone that they deserve a spot on the team. These are the kids that will still be around come senior year. These are the kids who will get into college and get the scholarship and still keep their grades up.

As the players are found by the high school football recruiting teams they are usually given a decision to make. They are given the choice between playing football for the rest of their career or doing whatever else they might want to do. This is a great way to see who has the drive to make it and they find out pretty fast who has the right stuff.




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