Recruiting Question

[KajunKrazy]

OK, so I'm an assistant coach at a NWLA high school. This is my first year. Our program has had very little success for a while, but we have some players this year. One specifically plays FS, RB and QB. He's about 6' and weighs about 195. Runs a 4.5. Defense will likely be his position at the next level.
He has around 70 tackles and 7 picks on the season in a tough 5-A district. He's been VERY lightly recruited so far. Would anyone know the best way to get him out there? Tweet videos and tag coaches? Would love to see him in a Cajuns uniform.

I know when Hud was recruting the Fuselier kid out of CHSNI years ago he had video and he saw him live and his coach vouched for his 40 time they would not offer until the got him in camp and put the stop watch on him. Once they saw that for themselves they offered. The same can be said for the LeBlanc kid here now Tech and Billy both had interest but neither would offer. Both watched him live and video. He went to camps between his Jr and Sr year the clocked him and watched him run routes against their top DB prospects both offered before he left that day. Camps are huge in recruiting more so than video.

But not all levels are the same if you are in NWLA don't forget NWST and SFA in Nacadoches. If those fail there is always So Arkansas and Monticello and others in the GAC if he just wants to play football at any level.

My son got an offer at a camp in the summer going into his Sr year at the conclusion of a camp in June that he held until January. It got pulled after a QB unexpectedly dropped that was higher on their board. We sent out some last minute video to some schools with Sr season highlights and picked up a partial D2 scholarship in Arkansas. So you never know. It just depends what he wants to do.

[NWLA Cajun]

Your current head coach should be doing this type of research and work. Seems he is to lazy to promote his kids. He doesn't have the answers to these questions that you are asking?

He's been coaching a long time, but not much as a head coach. It doesn't seem like anyone on the staff is paying much attention to this, so I have been working on getting film of the kids to help get them out there. The answers I've gotten in a few hours on this board are much more than I've gotten in the past 5 months from my fellow staff members.

[CharlieK]

Don’t give the kids name…call the UL athletics football office and ask to speak with coach Myers the recruiting person…. He will get all needed info to you …. Thanks for being a Cajun fan and helping your guys !!

This is good advice if you want him to be a Cajun. Lots of lurkers here. Give his name directly to the Cajuns coaches.

[KajunKrazy]

Your current head coach should be doing this type of research and work. Seems he is to lazy to promote his kids. He doesn't have the answers to these questions that you are asking?

You would be surprised at how many coaches don't do anything to promote their kids at the next level. They are just worried about what they can do for "me". Take the 2 Catholic schools in Lafayette. The one on the south side of town does a great job of promoting their players. The players at the one on the north side better hope their parents have an idea on how to promote them, because the coaches do absolutely nothing to promote them at the next level. If a college coach knocks on their door they will talk to him but that is about the extent of their involvement.

[CajunVic]

I guess you never heard about the wad of letters from college coaches chasing baseball players at the school on the southside that the baseball coach there never gave to his players . . .

[Bandwagon King]

OK, so I'm an assistant coach at a NWLA high school. This is my first year. Our program has had very little success for a while, but we have some players this year. One specifically plays FS, RB and QB. He's about 6' and weighs about 195. Runs a 4.5. Defense will likely be his position at the next level.
He has around 70 tackles and 7 picks on the season in a tough 5-A district. He's been VERY lightly recruited so far. Would anyone know the best way to get him out there? Tweet videos and tag coaches? Would love to see him in a Cajuns uniform.

Get him into a shoe camp. Not getting a good player into a shoe camp is the worst mistake parents & coaches can make in getting a player recruited.

[Bandwagon King]

Don’t give the kids name…call the UL athletics football office and ask to speak with coach Myers the recruiting person…. He will get all needed info to you …. Thanks for being a Cajun fan and helping your guys !!

Don't waste your time. Get him into a shoe camp. Any other camp is a waste of time. Nike, Addidas, Under Armor, it doesn't matter. You want your kid on the map then get him into a shoe camp. Take it from someone who didn't know better & now does know better.

[Bandwagon King]

In his situation, don't forget JC in Texas and Mississippi...1 year of JC. Ball could give him the exposure he needs...

That's a bunch of bull Squat as well. A) His grades are too good. B) Unless he goes to school in that state, or is a reject of a BCS school they will kick him to the curb.

[Bandwagon King]

Your current head coach should be doing this type of research and work. Seems he is to lazy to promote his kids. He doesn't have the answers to these questions that you are asking?

Most high school coaches have no idea how to get a kid promoted unless they have college connections. Then they are only going to try to push the kid toward where they went to school. GET THE KID TO A SHOE CAMP.

[CajunVic]

Don't waste your time. Get him into a shoe camp. Any other camp is a waste of time. Nike, Addidas, Under Armor, it doesn't matter. You want your kid on the map then get him into a shoe camp. Take it from someone who didn't know better & now does know better.

Knows better than what?

[Bandwagon King]

Knows better than what?

Don't even try to troll me on this subject Vic. You don't know ____ & I know world's more about this than you do so do yourself a favor & Please. No one who doesn't go to shoe camp ever gets rated unless their coach has a pipe line to a P-5 school. That is a fact of life. Get the young man in a shoe camp. And if you can get him into three shoe camps, even better.

[Bandwagon King]

Knows better than what?

I personally watched Les Miles step right over Kevin Dotson, Robert Hunt & another really good player that played at UL. I can't think of his name right now, to offer a couple of goobers schollies right in front of my face. I was no more than 10 feet away when he did this. I was in shock. College football camps are decent for teaching technique. That is ALL they are good for. They aren't worth a frick for getting a kid noticed. If you want that kid to get on the recruiting map, then get him to a shoe camp.

Edit: Kenneth Marks was the other one.