Film & Camps
How coaches evaluate you: a highlight film they will watch, and camps worth the drive.
Topic Overview
A coach's first look at your film is short, about thirty seconds, so the first clip has to be your best play. A highlight cuts from full-game film, runs around two minutes, and lands somewhere between twenty and twenty-five plays, which is the maximum USA Football recommends. Your contact information goes up front, and a marker on your jersey lets a coach follow you from clip to clip.
Film gets you on a coach's radar from a distance. A camp is where that same coach runs the stopwatch themselves and watches how you move with a staff standing over you. Few offers get handed out that day. The staff has to go back and talk through what they saw, so what a camp does is move you from a name on a list to a player they have evaluated in person.
Pick camps the way you pick schools. The ones worth the money and the weekend are at programs you'd actually attend and that already answer your messages. These guides cover how to build the film, where to post it, which camps to pay for, and the rules that shape your summer.
What these guides answer
- What goes in a highlight video, in what order, and what to cut
- How long the film should run and where to post it
- What a camp day looks like, and how you're evaluated through all of it
- How to pick camps worth the drive, and what to budget for them
- The camp and evaluation rules worth knowing before you plan a summer
Film & Camps Guides
Creating a Highlight Video
The film coaches will actually watch: what goes in, what to cut, and where to post it.
College Football Camps, Explained
What happens at a camp, which ones are worth the money, and the NCAA rules that shape your summer.
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