Peniel Jean is not your friend on the football field. This hard hitting cornerback shows some unusual aggressiveness at the position. Gets to the football and brings the pain. Led the Palm Beach Central secondary in 2008. Drawing interest from Florida, Florida State, Boston College and South Florida. Peniel Jean’s highlight video.
A couple of top rated recruits headline the latest videos added to Gridironstuds.com. Royal Palm Beach’s top wide out Chris Dunkley has added his impressive highlight video to our database. Dunkley is sorting through offers from the Big 3 in the state of Florida along with Michigan, West Virginia and several others. Chris Dunkley’s highlight video. Oakland, California’s Chris Martin, who is already a commit to Notre Dame has also added his video to Gridironstuds.com. Martin is a rangy athlete that gets to the football and ruins offensive plans. Chris Martin’s video. Apopka, Florida’s top defensive back recruit Lo Wood also added his video to GIS. The playmaking defensive back has offers from Georgia Tech, Michigan, Stanford, Central Florida and others. Lo Wood’s highlight video. St. Thomas Aquinas’ cornerback Vladimir Rock and Virginia’s Zac Glass also added their videos recently.
With an offer from Stanford already in hand, Treasure Coast Linebacker Jeff Luc has now been reached by the king of West Coast football. USC came calling to Luc on Thursday Night becoming the latest school to offer the bone crushing linebacker a full ride. North Carolina also threw an offer Luc’s way Thursday Night adding to the now long list of schools bidding for his services. Luc now has over 16 major Division I offers including Miami, FSU, Florida, Notre Dame, Georgia, WVU and USC. No doubt they will continue to pour in. You can view Luc’s impressive video, click on the link: Jeff Luc’s highlight video at Gridironstuds.com.
Today’s video of the day is play-making wide receiver Clayton Cooper out of Springtown, Texas. This recruit has not received the outlandish attention that some of the other 2010 wide receivers have but it’s only a matter of time before the offers come his way. Cooper produce’s and that’s a fact. He has amassed over 1300 yards receiving in his career with 12 trips to the end zone from his receiver spot. At 6’2″ 185 Cooper has the Division I goods. Check out his video: Clayton Cooper highlight video.
Ole Miss. is the latest school to join in on the Jeff Luc sweepstakes. Luc is the fastest rising 2010 recruit in the country. The Treasure Coast High School standout was flying under the radar until his video showed up on Gridironstuds.com in January. Since then, the head banging linebacker has been offered over 14 major division I scholarships. Miami, FSU, Florida, Georgia and Notre Dame are just a few that are lobbying for his services. More to come.
Turner Baty
A couple of quarterbacks headline the latest videos added to Gridironstuds.com. Quarterback Turner Baty, a transfer from Northern California to St. Thomas Aquinas High School in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida has added his video along with QB Jesse Sesma (Mesa, AZ). St. Thomas Aquinas defensive back Vlad Rock also added his film as did Youth Football quarterback Jalen Preston. Click here to view the latest videos.
Great dual threat QB out of Fort Pierce Central High School. Nice with his feet and has the arm to put the ball where he needs to. Watch him get loose on the defense when he pulls the ball down and hit the windows behind them when they get too close to the line of scrimmage. Tim Smith highlight video.
New offer for St. Edward’s High School standout defensive back Latwan Anderson. Maryland is the latest school to offer the Class of 2010 safety a scholarship. Other’s who have offered: Cincinnati, Michigan State, Iowa, West Virginia, Duke, Michigan, Indiana, Boston College.
After months of speculation as to where he would end up, it’s official, former Southwest Miami High School cornerback Lamarcus Joyner will be a St. Thomas Aquinas Raider Wednesday morning. The standout defensive back, arguably the best in Dade County at the position attempted to transfer to Columbus High School in recent weeks but the transfer fell through. Now, Joyner will join Cody Riggs at St. Thomas to give the Raiders perhaps the best secondary in the nation. Aquinas just completed one of the best seasons in South Florida history going undefeated and beating all opponents by double digits. Finding room to throw against this team has just become near impossible. Both players clocked sub 4.5 forty’s on Sunday at the Under Armour Junior Combine at the Miami Dolphins training facility. This should be fun to watch.
After talking to several scouts and watching tons and I mean tons of films of prospects, here are some tips on highlight videos that YOU MUST follow:
RULE #1: Put your best plays first
There’s no need to hold out, this is not a feature film with a plot. Scouts have to watch many films and they are not likely to get beyond 4 minutes in your film at the most. Put your best 10 plays as the first 10 clips on your film. They need to know right away what kind of player you are. A perfect example of this is Jeff Luc’s highlight video. There’s no denying that he can play after seeing the first 5 clips. That 90 yard interception return, the 95 yard kickoff return, the bone crushing hit, that run you had where you broke 10 tackles, that block you made when you buried a kid and he quit football, that needs to be the first thing on your highlight tape.
RULE #2: Point out where you are on the film
This applies to all players except QB’s and RB’s. It’s hard as hell to find some players on grainy footage when they are mixed in with 8 other players on a play. Use some kind of highlight effect on your video. Whether it’s an arrow, shading everyone else out at the start of the play or putting some kind of special effect over you before the play. This is especially important for defensive players like defensive linemen and linebackers. Also ultra important for offensive linemen.
RULE #3: Watch your music choices
The music on your tape is going to represent who you are. If the song you have on your video represents violence, domestic abuse, drug dealing, profanity, it’s going to be hard for someone watching it to believe that you are someone that’s likely to take advantage of a college education. It will be hard not to worry that you will do something in school that could get you kicked out. I recommend putting the instrumental version of all songs you choose on your highlight video that way there’s no mistakes.
RULE #4: If you don’t know what you are doing get a professional
The idea of making your own highlight video can be a thrill but your high school football highlight video is not the one to experiment with. If you don’t know what you are doing, get someone who does. Getting one made can cost some decent money but it’s a worthwhile investment if you are a player. That highlight video could save you $thousands on a college education. Get a job, ask an uncle or a rich auntie, make a deal with mom or day to help you pay to have a video made. Nothing will turn a scout off faster than a poorly made tape that’s hard to follow.
RULE #5: Don’t keep it a secret
Whether you think you are big time recruit or not, it does nothing for you to have a tape made if you are going to keep it a secret. Get your tape sent out to the schools you are interested in. Upload your video to YouTube. Post your video to sites like this one. The more people that see it, the better it is for you. Get discovered, be confident and tell people who you are.
