How to Get Noticed by College Football Programs...(con't)
By Doug Brien

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" Compete in The Kicking.com Combine Series and get an iPlayer Profile®: To augment the letter, VHS tape and DVD I also recommend sending emails with an iPlayer Profile®. This will allow you to more cost effectively communicate with more schools. It also allows the coaches and scouts to watch you perform on the Internet from their own desk. Plus through the Coaches Locker Room at iPlayers they can be updated when you have new film available to watch. The iPlayers technology offers a clear picture and the ability to maintain perfect clarity while advancing frame-by-frame. iPlayers is the only place you will find this unique technology.

The timing of our events works out well with the college recruiting schedule. College coaches will have access to your "regional" profile on iPlayers right after your junior season. The semi-finals happen right before your senior season begins so college coaches will have access to that video right before your senior season begins. This will give the college coaches a good idea of what kind of kicker, punter or snapper you are. If they are interested, they will be able to watch you, communicate with you and follow you throughout your senior season and into the Kicking.com National Final in January. You can store not only your combine footage on iPlayers but you can add your game footage to your iPlayers Profile® as well.

Coaches like to see two types of film from specialists: continuous practice footage and game film. In both instances they want to see the footage in its entirety. They do not want a "highlight tape." Everyone looks good in his "highlight tape." Coaches want to see you miss kicks or snaps and then see how you respond. This is why you should send an entire game in or an entire practice session without any editing. They also want the picture to be clear and to show you throughout your entire kick, punt or snap so that they can assess your technique.

Showing footage from The Kicking.com Combine Series is perhaps the best type of film to send to schools because it is a pressure situation and it is professionally filmed and housed at iPlayers. The Kicking.com Combine Series offering is perfect for creating quality footage to demonstrate your talent to college coaches. In The Combine Series coaches will see you perform under pressure with no "do-overs" and every kick will be hosted on iPlayers for their viewing. Your performance can be watched in perfect clarity, frame-by-frame from the comfort of their desk. Now that is recruitment in fast-forward! I highly recommend you use The Kicking.com Combine as a way to demonstrate your kicking and snapping ability to college coaches. After all, we created The Combine Series with you in mind.
" Send in a Letter and Film: After your junior year you should send a letter a video tape and a DVD to the colleges on your list. You should send both a video and a DVD because some schools prefer old fashioned video tapes and other schools like to see DVDs. You should label both your video and DVD with your name, contact information, high school statistics and academic information. Often times the video or DVD can get separated from your letter. If the DVD or tape is labeled they will still know who you are.

Halfway through your senior year you should send the schools on your list some updated video from the first half of your season. When your senior season is over, you should send the video from the second half of the year.

The letter should not be too long. Don't spend pages telling about how badly you want to play at a particular school. You should be concise. Tell the school about your high school career, include your academic information, your contact information, the contact information for your high school and kicking, punting or snapping coach as well as why you want to attend the school. Be creative - try to make your letter and video stand out.

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