High School Football Recruiting Takes Place Early

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.

These are the times that kids have their first real relationships and have to deal with adversity. They have to find a way to handle large academic loads as well as dealing with long hours of practice and the toll it takes on their body and their mind. If kids can show that they can make it through this stage and still shine, this is what colleges want to see.

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.

The big leagues do the same. The scouts from the NFL have files that track the kids from their high school days and on. These people try and learn as much as they can about them as a person. They want to find out how they handle things on the field and also if they are having trouble at home. There are a great deal of things a high school athlete has in front of them.

Some of them can also see how much talent they actually have. Some of them handle it very well and are very humble and modest about their ability. Yet still others handle it all very poorly. The scouts will look for these things out of the players and unless the person is so good that they are above and beyond everyone else, these things can ruin their chances.

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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