<p>Hey Guys!
I just wanted to first start out by saying that a personal goal of mine is to play football at the college level. From what I've read, you should attend a lot of camps over the summer. Also is to fill out recruiting forms and email the coaches with your highlight videos (I'm a rising junior.) Should I wait until the end of junior year in order to get another year of academics under my belt, or do it A.S.A.P after the season to get an early start? Any other advice for the recruiting process for football would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks!</p>
<p>Do you have an idea about what level of playing/what conference you’re interested in? (Div 1, Liberty/D2, Ivy, D3?) </p>
<p>Anywhere between d2-d3, swell as the Ivy and Patriot Leagues, along with a couple of other FCS schools (what I am shooting for.) Mainly looking to stick to the northeast but am interested in a few midwest and mid-atlantic.</p>
<p>The only advice we’ve gotten is to submit recruiting forms early and often, because they don’t care if they get repeats and they might miss a single recruit form.</p>
<p>End of junior year seems kind of late to start for the latter schools you list, so you should get going and start emailing and/or making phone calls.</p>
<p>^^If he’s a rising Junior, he’s got plenty of time. We were advised differently about the recruiting forms. We (and by we, I mean son) sent them off immediately after he got his SAT/ACT scores. Personally, I wouldn’t run myself ragged getting to camps the summer after my sophomore year…unless there’s a school that you are REALLY interested in. If they run a camp, or you know that they send their people to a specific camp to recruit. But then again Im not convinced that camps are all that important all together. My son was recruited by about half a dozen D3 schools…the 4-5 that were most assertive never saw him play live - all thru initial tape, Junior weekends and overnights. Go to the Bowdoin athletics site. Coach Captuti put together a piece on recruiting that we found really helpful. </p>
<p>Ok, that piece was very helpful, thanks for sharing! I think it would be best to wait until later in the year to submit. Gives me more time to raise my grades, and take the SAT once and hopefully not twice, swell as ACTs. Any other general advice you guys have that would be helpful would mean a lot.
Thank you!</p>
<p>No problem! I have to say, it was a pretty anxiety provoking process…mostly because, at least with the NESCAC/D3 schools my son was in contact with, there didn’t seem to be a standard process among schools of how things were done. There was alot of second-guessing and reading into emails and phone calls…trying to figure out exactly where he stood in the process. But again, all worth it. If there’s any way I can help…feel free to ask!</p>
<p>If you are 2015 you should be submitting junior year film links plus gpa and scores and general academic profile now. You can do this by filling out questionnaires that will put you into the general recruit pool and make you searchable on databases.</p>
<p>If you are 2016 you should be lifting and running. Lifting and running. And be on Varsity junior year so you have some film to give colleges.</p>