[papagrit]

Now I'm not sure if this is against a rule or not to post this on here. This could be considered advertising another website, which I'm not really meaning to. I am posting this because I thought it was very beneficial for my son to get his name out and it is a website that can be a very cost efficient tool for any kid who is interested in playing at the next level. Soooooo, Mods, if this is breaking a rule, then just delete this post and please accept my apologies...I only mentioned this because I thought it would be beneficial to the football playing Kentucky boys and their parents.

If you have kids who are pretty decent at football and have gone through some college recruiting, you have probably been approached by some of the recruiting companies that we were approached by. My youngest was in the KYMSFA all star football game in Frankfort after his eighth grade year and they even had a huge meeting with a representative of one of these agencies. They supposedly get your kids name out to the recruiting groups like Rivals.com and so forth and they say they contact colleges on your behalf. I asked a coach that I knew pretty well from a DI FCS team about these agencies and he told me that he personally didn't think they were worth the expense because not many really good players get past their recruiting scrutiny. I know one parent personally whose kid was a pretty decent player who actually signed with an NAIA school, but, he didn't get the big name attention they promised and his dad had dropped more than 700 bucks on this recruiting agency for him. This is why I feel like I needed to post this to you all that don't have near a grand to invest in just a chance like that or for those of you, who like me, have kids that probably aren't going to go DI, but want to get their names out to some mid or lower tier schools and play at the next level for the chance at some scholarships or for the love of the game.
While going through the recruiting process with my second son, one college requested that I send his information to them through gobigrecruiting.com. I did this and investigated the sight a little. What they do is after you register your kid and his information, they put their name in a database for ALL colleges to look at. Colleges get very basic GPA, height and weight information and request gobigrecruiting.com to contact you as parents to send them a link to more information and your kids film link whether it be HUDL or wherever. For the cost of between 5 and 1O bucks per school, you can ok this transfer of information and gobigrecruiting.com will actually let you KNOW if your kids film as been viewed by the school you sent it to. You can send film unsolicited to the school as well and still tell if they have watched the film or not if you want to. How many schools you actually send this information to, whether unsolicited or by request, is up to you and that will determine how much money you spend. You can show interest in regions of the U.S. through the website that maybe your kid might want to go to like the Midwest or the Northeast and those schools will concentrate on your kid more. My son got about 93 different school requests for his film and we sent out about 25 films for a cost of around a hundred bucks in the course of a year and a half. A lot of these schools I've never heard of, and some are wayyyy out there like North Dakota State in Bottineau (five miles from Canada) which actually had three boys from the Louisville area on the team(NO KIDDING!). My son had about a dozen coaches personally email, U.S. mail him, call him or write personal cards to him wanting his interest. These aren't the generic preprinted letters, they were handwritten and the emails were requesting his interest in coming for official visits to Minnesota, Wisconsin, Maine, Alabama, Kentucky, Tennesee and California to name a few. I will post the link to the website below and on our last email from them today, it said that if anyone registers with them and makes any purchase, you can get a free school if you put "2014" in the coupon box. We got a few free schools, especially during his senior year on deals with them. It is a great way to start recruiting with your kid and I'd advise you to start the junior year with a highlight film. I love to see kids from around here do well in football and move on to the next level and this is just something I have learned from experiencing it and I wanted to share it with people on here that also care about football and kids.

Good Luck to your kid(s) in football this next season and hopefully you will get to experience the college football scene yourselves some day! It's a different world and we (my wife and I) are going to have both of our sons playing together this fall again for the first time in two years which we look forward to.:Thumbs:

Papagrit

https://www.gobigrecruiting.com/