Here is the link for your recruiting conversation templates for how to talk to coaches. Simply copy and paste it from this link and adjust to your personal situation:
I’ve put the most helpful templates for how to setup conversations with coaches and phrases in the Appendix at the end of the book, but here are some philosophical points I think recruits need to understand in this marketing process:
To give a coach the ability to say yes to you, you need to risk hearing a no from them.
This isn’t HS where coaches give you the benefit of the doubt. Most coaches round down on your talent, while your HS coaches rounded up.
A lot of recruits get their feelings hurt when a coach doesn’t get back to them. Twitter makes it even worse because you feel like you are the only kid who is not getting an offer. Instead of taking this personally, just take a step back and remember that coaches are busy, most of the time it’s not because they don’t like you, it’s because they’ve got too much to do. Kickers too, are again the last guys recruited.
If you have more than 4-5 lines of text your message to a coach is too long already. When was the last time you were excited to receive an ebook text from an angry mom or girlfriend? Never probably. The same is true for college coaches.
You will notice in the appendix section how short most of these templates are. There is a 10-30 second slot per day that a kicker might fit into in a coach’s mind, and it might be you they’re looking at. You want to make it as brain-dead-easy to get recruited as possible.
Shorter the messages the better.
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