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Every high school football player has different circumstances and surroundings that can severely alter a recruits final outcome or overall results, as far as college football recruiting is concerned. I have come to find out that it is not all about athletics and academics, but how individuals respond to situations that will dictate your individual end results. Most of these key factors pertain to life in America in general and can be correlated to being successful in other fields. First, let's take a look at what I like to call the key components to being a highly sought after recruit. As we stated before, a major part of this process is just alerting next level coaches of your existence on this earth and that you desire to take your game to the next level. That being said, you simply are not just going to join some website and wind up on TOP of a college football teams recruiting board. You are not going to show up at some Rivals camp and magically separate yourself from the thousands of players that attend by performing a football combine. So lets go down a list first of everything  I have seen over the past three recruiting classes and what the highly recruited players were doing to better their chances. 

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• In order to understand college football recruiting, you first must understand how every level of college football recruits. Some student-athletes get offered as young as 8th grade for the FBS level of NCAA football and some young men wind up committing very early to these programs. No matter how much better your kid has gotten, it is morally unethical to now to pull the offer from the athlete who was already offered a scholarship. 
• The Top-Tier Power 5 programs are "full" very early sometimes, but as you see rather often, a player will decommit  from that pledge and re-open his recruitment. When this happens that scholarship normally goes out to the next man on the college football teams recruiting board at that position. These are most of the guys you see on 247 sports and other networks, as they are over glorified by the general media.
• As signing day nears, more and more teams become "full", which means they have offered the allotted amount of scholarship awards for that recruiting class. The main reason for making a recruiting board is so that if a guy does not honor his commitment, you have options to go to immediately. This concept is kinda like a NFL draft board, as you do not ultimately know if you can get the player that you desire, so you must always keep other options open. January is really when the gaps start to get filled at mid-major programs and ultimately the FCS level. 
• Some FCS and D2/NAIA/JuCo programs recruit heavily in the spring and summer. They could have had their eye on a player this entire time that they really want to offer, but in a good FCS coach's head, he is thinking that player is also good enough to play at the FBS level.
• When that player slides, said FCS team will pounce at the opportunity to grab a young man with something to prove. Why? The hashtag #FearTheFCS did not just pop up out of nowhere, some programs are truly becoming giant killers and developing players rapidly for the NFL. 
• Register with the NCAA clearinghouse by the end of your junior season and file FAFSA report. This helps determine if the United States education department Pell Grant award and many other financial means that are available to low-medium income families. 
• Believe it or not, FBS football has the least teams in its NCAA league with 129. That leaves nearly 500 college football programs left that offer athletic scholarships, hence the reason college coaches first question normally is "who is recruiting you?" If your local D2/D3 or NAIA program has not made any contact, nor anyone else, it is not a good look to attempt to go to the FBS or even FCS level, as at this point, a coach will won't even bother to open the tape 99% of the time. 
• Academic scholarships will help get you to a full scholarship at other levels of college football. For example, The Ivy League is known for awarding very large academic scholarships to athletes they are recruiting, but the scores have to warrant that financial award. The NAIA has a scale that they use at most of the institutions that goes by GPA and the higher GPA you accumulate, the more money you can be awarded as a student-athlete. 

Playing The Actual Game of Football at a High Level

I went back through top recruiting class, after top recruiting class over the past decade and realized that football is an entertainment industry. Stories of success and overcoming obstacles that were in your way are always shown on front page news. While overachieving on the gridiron can often do the trick, as far as creating the spark needed to launch a college football recruit onto the national scene. There are many other times, that the best overall athlete never leaves town because of unforeseen circumstances that they just could not mentally process. The separation phase normally occurs when the overhyped athletes–who you, the recruit is just as good or better than– begins to compile offers. The stars are placed by the recruits name and rankings are deemed most of the time by who has the most power five offers. Most recruits in America at this juncture will start asking questions, where did I go wrong? Am I not good enough? A coach could tell them they are just not big enough, as an easy cop out to eliminate to what that coach is a distraction. I happen to know and get along with many great high school football coaches that care about every player on their team, because they put individual growth and success above winning. Sometimes they will have a rough season here or there, as the football can take mysterious bounces sometimes and so can life. But all in all, they win in nearly every area with their student-athletes. Winning can come for what I like to call "bottom feeders" of the football ecosystem, only when the whales of the sea let them win . Most high school football players I meet are having so much fun they do not want their careers to end and their coaches taught them to push themselves as far as they can go in football, along with life. The Hirschi Huskies have exemplified what it takes to be an elite high school football team in the extremely talented football State of Texas. Earlier this evening it was announced that they have won team of the decade, after receiving thousands, upon thousands of votes for Scout Trout 2017 National Team of the year. 

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