choprip
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Post by choprip on Nov 6, 2024 17:40:09 GMT -6
Scenario: you live in a densely populated area where kids have plenty of options on where to attend HS. What are you doing to become appealing to kids without breaking any rules, such as making direct contact?
Let's say you are taking over a basement-dwelling program, but the school has a solid reputation in general, respectable resources, and supportive admin.
If you say nothing and are fine with whatever comes through the door, explain why.
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Post by carookie on Nov 6, 2024 18:19:56 GMT -6
Connect with a local youth program, one that is willing to do what it takes to get athletes. Help them out, within the rules, and have them become your defacto feeder program. You don't get to have a direct MS feeder program as used to be the case, because the top MS kids will choose where they go. So you have to align yourself with a private youth team. Invite them to the game, clinic with their coaches, etc.
Make sure you are in the right league, division, conference, whatever your state calls it. I know of a lot of schools in big areas that are stuck in mediocrity because they are forced to be the bottom dwellers in the big boys leagues and never get a shot at the playoffs. A good way to pull yourself out of the sinkhole is get wins and make playoffs. Enough kids will be impressed by you making a playoff run, even if it is in a lower division, to bump your numbers. Talk with who you need to talk to and get leagued correctly. If you can't do that, chase easy wins in the preseason.
Also, do everything else right. Bring in good coaches, run a smart system, train right, teach them to be good men, hype up your kids who go to college. The normal stuff that ou should be doing already.
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Post by Defcord on Nov 6, 2024 18:46:24 GMT -6
Make your kids love playing football for you is the greatest and first step.
This doesn’t mean being the cool coach. This means running a quality football program that kids want to be part of because they are valued and put in a position to succeed.
I’ve been in two programs that had to deal with recruiting. The first one a couple assistants tried to bring some kids in and they all wanted promised starting spots and stuff. It was a mess and the only kids that actually came were turds.
The second school told kids that we weren’t turning away potential players but that we respected the kids in our program and wouldn’t just promise their spots away. We would welcome new transfers if they came the right way and give them a chance to compete for spots when they arrived but nothing was guaranteed but a great football experience.
We won a lot more at the second school so it wasn’t apples to apples situation but the kids that came into the second school were much more respectful and competitive.
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