Beyond Friday Nights: College Football Recruiting for Players and Parents

Book excerpt: Every year, another new class of high school football players and their parents begin to ask questions about playing college football. They want to know what college football coaches are looking for in prospective recruits for their teams. They want to know how those coaches recruit high school players. And they want to know how to get and keep college coaches' attention. Beyond Friday Nights: College Football Recruiting for Players and Parents answers these and other questions through an informative and highly readable look at the college football recruiting process. Based in good measure on the experiences of former high school players, it is heavily supplemented with insights shared by high school coaches, college coaches, former college players, recruiting consultants, parents, and others familiar with the ins and outs of the process.