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Post by bulldog57 on Feb 25, 2017 7:35:47 GMT -6
Anyone had any luck getting more kids out for football that arent currently playing for you? I have had very marginal success being able to get kids who arent currently playing interested. Was just wondering if anyone had some strategies that have been successful.
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Post by macdiiddy on Feb 25, 2017 8:30:39 GMT -6
Winning and Building a Culture.
While I think a "sales pitch" would have to be catered to every individual, winning and culture cast a big net.
I think the winning sentiment is self explanatory, but building a culture, cultivating that unique bond between teammates allows your players to be walking billboards for your program.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 25, 2017 13:39:14 GMT -6
My thoughts based on my limited experience....
I agree that a winning program brings in kids, no question. But until you can get there I think you need to build relationships with kids.
How much of your coaching staff are teachers or in other positions that have them on campus? I think all of your on-campus coaches should be selling the program to potential players.
Our program suffers because only the HC is on campus - and he's not the kind of guy that seeks out kids. We had a coaches meeting at the beginning of January and we all expressed to the HC that we feel that the on-campus kids are the low hanging fruit. We should be focusing on getting them into our program vs hoping we can bring in talent from the outside - especially when our school gives NO financial help for athletics. His response was, "I won't chase kids, they have to want to play for me." We had a spirited debate over it but he wouldn't budge. So now most of us coaches go to all the other sports events - soccer, baseball, basketball - to see kids, get to know them and try to develop relationships with them. I'm at a private school of about 800 middle/high school students. The kids, for the most part, are kind of soft and want to be wanted. Sometimes it's a PITA to go to all this stuff and burn so much of my offseason time but it's worth it in the long run. Your mileage may vary.
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Post by vanden48 on Feb 27, 2017 10:51:38 GMT -6
I send out letters to their homeroom classes. I will create a database of potential "recruits" of kids on campus. I will put in some catch phrase words to personalize the letter, then do a mail-merge document and print-off the letters. I will print an envelope with their name on it and our logo, just like recruiting a high school kid to college. I'm recruiting a high school kid to high school. I approach it just like I did when I was coaching college football. If the kids respond to the letters I will step up the recruiting.
The goal is to get them in the weight room for the spring, then get them to commit to summer camp. Then you get the parents to commit to something, anything. Have the current players work them. I also make it a point to tell the current players in the weight room to bring somebody "New". When a kid tells me he wants to be part of the team I will put it in the morning announcements and welcome him to the family over the remind app. So every player, and parent knows this kid said he is part of the program. Then they start to talk him up.
It is truly a group effort, but in high school the boosters can help you recruit the on campus kids as much as possible.
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