<p>is it worth it to contact a coach just to show him a sick game tape?</p>
<p>you see i don't have a list of awards and my school team doesn't keep stats. Do u think i should even bother? i know D1 is impossible. But will D2 D3 and Ivy coaches even consider the tape? i'm entering my senior year so i might be a little late.</p>
<p>ABSOLUTELY! Call the coach, introduce yourself, and then send him the tape.</p>
<p>my idea of a tape is not even highlights of games lol, i’m leaning more towards a video filmed on the playground of me doing dunks and stuff. In basketball, athletcism is extremely important so i’m kind of banking on that</p>
<p>should i even bother? i</p>
<p>That would be a waste of time. I’ve seen extremely athletic people simply make fools of themselves on the court. you need to send some actual game tape also.</p>
<p>Coaches are looking for game footage not just you by yourself on a playground. In my opinion it would actually hurt your chances to send such a tape.</p>
<p>Agreed. Highlight tapes are useless. Look for a camp in the fall and hope for a good 8-10 minute game segment.</p>
<p>the tape you seem to be talking about is definitely useless, but highligh tapes in general are not necessarily useless. When I was in high school I was asked by a top 25 division one coach to send 5-8 minutes of highlights followed by an entire game. So highlights are ok, as long as you have both, but the highlights should be taken from games where you are playing actually sanctioned competition, not something from the “playground”.</p>
<p>you guys know how in college players all boast their heights by adding a few inches extra. For example, michael beasley is like 6’7 to 6’8 but he’s listed at 6’10 in college. So when i contact coaches, should i should boast my height a little. I’m 6’2 without shoes, so should i just say my height is 6’4?</p>
<p>It is never good to begin a relationship with a coach by lying or raising expectations that you cannot fulfill upon meeting him in person. Measure yourself in your shoes or just put the height that was listed on your high school team roster.</p>
<p>I say be honest, as bessie mentioned. Dude, you can’t start out bad on the wrong foot, just as I told you in a PM already. Don’t classify yourself as THE guy who can anything, tell them your true game/height/weight/stats. It’s always bad when you don’t live up to the hype. </p>
<p>@bessie: Thanks for helping me, but I must say that some high schools even lie about players’ stats. I’m not sure if it was a mistake, but my school listed a guy 5 inches shorter than he really is. It’s odd that we “made” him smaller, very counterintuitive nonetheless. Oh well, best wishes to OP in recruitment! :)</p>
<p>My son had a club coach who would also subtract an inch or two from players on his roster. He thought the opposing team would assume the player who was listed at 6’8" was really 6’6" and then would find out at game time that the guy was really 6’10"! Of course, they would have been preparing for a 6’6" inch guy and not a nearly seven footer. Or, perhaps he wanted to have a solid reputation with college coaches who knew when the coach listed a player at 6’8’’ that the kid was at least that tall. Who knows? I know everyone lies on the roster, but I think recruits need to be very honest with college coaches. They will measure your height, your wingspan, your standing reach, how tall you are in socks, how tall you are in shoes, your fat content, etc. so it does no good to lie. Leave the lying to the coaches.</p>
<p>Coaches do not want to see highlight films, as they would rather see complete games. There are a lot of things that coaches look for that can’t be captured in highlight tapes: a) Is the kid a team player?, b) Is the kid a good teammate?, c) Is the kid a leader and can rally his team?, d) How high is his basketball IQ?, e) How well does the kid play in pressure situations?, f) How is the kid’s attitude?, g) How well conditioned is the kid? (Is he just as productive in the last 4 mins of the game as he is in the first quarter), etc</p>
<p>Keep in mind Ivy League is still DI, even though they don’t give athletic scholarships. Kids receive mail as early as 6th grade; there are even services out there that ranks the top 100 5th graders in the country! By sophomore year, coaches already know who they want to target and recruit for that class; usually that class is sewn up prior to them entering their senior year.</p>
<p>With that being said, good luck and be realistic…</p>
<p>Some coaches do want highlight tapes, though. One of the DI schools my son is looking at specifies on the prospective athlete questionaire to send in some clips…“can be of games or practices”. Another coach at a college forum hosted by my son’s club said the same thing. He loves highlight tapes and has found some good players who otherwise would not have been on his radar. I am speaking soccer, not basketball, so maybe it is different.</p>
<p>“By sophomore year, coaches already know who they want to target and recruit for that class; usually that class is sewn up prior to them entering their senior year.”</p>
<p>This assessment is vastly overstated. Kids commonly move up or down during their junior years and the summer that follows. Moreover, I personally know two kids who received the scholarship offers that they accepted at mid-major schools after their senior year, as well as one who received a genuine preferred walk-on offer from a high academic DI school in the same time frame.</p>
<p>Yes …Georgetown singed a senior this spring who only had been offerred scholarship to DII schools up to that point!!!</p>
<p>Which sport?</p>
<p>basketball, thanks for all the advices guys. But i’m probably try to make the team after i get accepted. If i get accepted ED by Dec 1, i’ll just film a game anyways and show it to the coach when i visit the campus (Columbia) Hopefully i get in =D</p>
<p>I’ll say this again: From what I read, most roster spots have already been filled by the time you hopefully will be accepted. You may be a walk-on fighting for playing time, especially since we both are not that big. If you impress coaches enough, maybe they’ll give you a shot, but several guys on those teams are high school stars, keep that in mind.</p>
<p>BTW, how much do you weigh now? Check most of those rosters for 1 & 2 guards, we both need to bulk up a bit. I am so happy that I got up to 170~ now, so I have some more meat on my bones haha.</p>
<p>Best wishes to you, man! :)</p>