jeudi 27 juin 2013

Why High School Football Recruiting Starts Young

By Linda Maynard


There are a lot of kids out there who dream of playing football in the National Football League. For many of those kids their dream may never come true. Not because they do not want it bad enough but because they just do not have what it takes. These choices, believe it or not, start with high school football recruiting.

When kids start playing football there are a lot of various stages that they go through before getting all the way to the top. All of these various leagues and teams that they will play on have a part to play in either getting them there or not getting them there. While it really all depends on the individual there is also a lot that depends on other people.

These are the times that kids have their first real relationships and have to deal with adversity. They have to find a way to handle large academic loads as well as dealing with long hours of practice and the toll it takes on their body and their mind. If kids can show that they can make it through this stage and still shine, this is what colleges want to see.

When they start to put more time and effort into getting where they want to go they slowly start to see some of the rewards for their efforts. As they start to get a bit older they will find that they are making the teams that only the elite players get the chance to play on. This is when they start to get noticed by the scouts that really have a say in what happens.

The big leagues do the same. The scouts from the NFL have files that track the kids from their high school days and on. These people try and learn as much as they can about them as a person. They want to find out how they handle things on the field and also if they are having trouble at home. There are a great deal of things a high school athlete has in front of them.

Some of them can also see how much talent they actually have. Some of them handle it very well and are very humble and modest about their ability. Yet still others handle it all very poorly. The scouts will look for these things out of the players and unless the person is so good that they are above and beyond everyone else, these things can ruin their chances.

The kids who are left are the ones who truly want to be there. They are the kids who will work even harder to prove to everyone that they deserve a spot on the team. These are the kids that will still be around come senior year. These are the kids who will get into college and get the scholarship and still keep their grades up.

There jobs are not easy, not by a long shot. But high school football recruiting definitely has a place in the whole scheme of things. If it was not for them the colleges would make many more mistakes on who they give scholarships to and the National Football League would have many more failed draft picks.




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