re: What's the best way for a player to get noticed by college coaches?

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If you have to actively promote the kid, he's not going anywhere worth going to

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This is also false. Some kids need promoting more than others. That's just the nature of the recruiting game. You can't make them see what they choose not to see.

I've always wondered if the things like Nike combines are even looked at by coaches. It's standardized electronic testing, seems legit, but do they even look? Or is that just for these recruiting services selling subscriptions?

How

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How

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If a kid is going to be something special at the high school level he'll likely have a 7-8 TD game in middle school. That spreads around town quick which then the newspaper likely does an article or something. That's how it happens.

The word spreads around about players with talent. I'd be willing to be that the amount of sleeping five star recruits that just went unnoticed is pretty low....

Fair enough, just curious. That's actually a pretty good point. They may post an outstanding track time or football/baseball stat line and be in the papers and kind of the talk of the town. Thanks.

I'm a long way away from that. The only one left in school is years and years away.

At this age it's a crapshoot of who has physically matured early.

I am a multi sport athlete. In football I was All district punt returner. 5A

I figured you for a tight end

Recruiting services have film on just about everyone they want to. Then a school pays student workers $5 an hour to go through the film and sum it up.