Best way to get "On the Radar"?

Start him on agility drills. 6`8 he's going to be on the line.

I’m assuming he is a thrower of some sort? If so, record his official times (or his track times if he is a sprinter) from an objective source.

Those will get respect immediately as they are objective times and no one can say he ran a 10.9 or jumped 6’6” or whatever against easy competition.

Orgeron himself said to Bruce Feldman that he takes official track times very seriously. Of course there is a high standard for elite speed. I think for RB/CB/WR, it was 10.7 seconds and lower

Good luck to your son!

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Thanks! He's a 100/200/4x200 runner. He settled in at 11.8 on a truncated season last spring. Hitting 4.6-4.7 seems to line up with most TE/OLBs. He's gained a lot of speed over the summer after we spent time working on his explosiveness and putting up more consistent times over the course of the workout and week to week, ending up being consistently at or under 11.3. Without a basketball background I don't think height at TE will be a valuable as at LT but to the team right now his athleticism would be "wasted" anchored to the line.

We live in a small "bedroom" community 15 miles away from a major college. There's a class of 2023 basketball player who's already been offered by a bunch of schools (his dad has bankrolled him going all around the region to be seen), a baseball player who is headed to a Big Ten school, and there was a recent grad who ended up on a top half SEC softball team. My wife and I are from different states. I was on the line & went to State but my wife went to the same HS as my son does now and was recruited as a thrower by Arkansas before deciding to go where she did (becoming a multi time A-A at a P5 school.) The football program is the one that has not had that breakthrough P5 recruit yet. Rivals and Nike look to be two camps that offer some exposure and into the databases. I'm more of a guy who doesn't want to misstep and miss an opportunity than one who wants to go overboard. Above all else it still needs to be fun for him. I think any well adjusted parent should want that first and foremost.

He's on pace to be 6'8 255 running a 10.5 hundred meters. He don't need no help.

My son is a 2025 too, and he lettered for the HS varsity track team last year in 8th grade (his school is all-boys 7th-12th)… they got third in state in the 4x400, 4A. He wanted to run shorter distances, but couldn’t quite compete at the HS level (down here in S MS). Won many 400 races though.

He’ll be the varsity kicker as a freshman and he’s really keen to play for a good college. We’ve gone to a few camps, but I’ve held him out of the national ranking camps until he gets his freshman season under his belt.

Being a specialist is different, but I assume camps are where the best compete. Put him under pressure and see if he likes to compete, seems like he’s got everything else.

Vid of my son kicking at the last camp of summer:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KYnUV_-yP90

Camps and film of him being a badass. Nobody gets slept on anymore. If he’s really a player, he will be found

The school you play at only matters if you are borderline low d2/d3

If you’re elite, you’ll be found, I’d argue even faster at small schools.

Now will you get better developed at a “powerhouse” school? Probably. But maybe not.