Recruit Yourself

Book excerpt: Social media has forever transformed the recruiting process for college football. For coaches, it's an efficient way to connect, recruit, and collect information about players. For the players, it's a powerful and revolutionary tool to promote themselves by providing information that may not otherwise be available to coaches. Through the use of three popular web-based resources: YouTube, Twitter, and Facebook, a student-athlete can build a multi-media platform to effectively showcase their strengths, abilities, and interests. This presents an overall public image that will promote positive interest from college coaches. The days of having to pay hundreds of dollars for an online recruiting service to market yourself as an athlete are over. Now you can create a free and effective web-based platform to connect with college coaches and effectively promote your talent for football. Recruit Yourself gives valuable advice on the modern NCAA scholarship process and reflects the knowledge and insight that Mickey Dollens has accumulated throughout his experience as a high school and collegiate athlete.