I was recently talking to a good friend of mine, Anthony Cobbs, about facebook and the college recruiting process. Mr. Cobbs played football for UCLA and for the New Orleans Saints, so he and I talk a lot about the college recruiting process. We were talking about the major investment a college makes in an athlete (sometimes it can be up to $250,000), and how coaches want to know as much as possible about you before they make a final decision on if they are going to offer you a scholarship or not.
facebook as YOUR RESUME
One of the things AC and I discussed was facebook pages of student-athletes. Student-athletes have to realize that college coaches will try to check out their facebook pages to see what their prospects are posting on their social media pages. AC made an important point about being sure to always present YOUR BEST to college coaches. He said it is like when you apply for a job at Footlocker. You may not want to wear the referee jersey, but it is part of the job…it is what you have to wear if you want to get a paycheck. It is the same thing as a college athlete…it is similar to the dress code we used to have at Stanford when we traveled on road trips. We may not have wanted to wear a suit on the plane, but if you wanted to play you had to wear the suit.
Your facebook page can act as your resume, so be sure and present yourself in a way that is in alignment with the college’s “work” clothes. My point here is that you do not want to give the college coach any reason to not offer you a scholarship…they dont want to deal with head cases or attitudes. They want guys that they can coach up and WIN GAMES…NO HEADACHES!!
There are over 2 million high school athletes competing for ONLY 100K freshman college roster spots each year…in other words there are plenty of GREAT student-athletes out there for a coach to offer an athletic scholarship. Don’t cost yourself a FREE education because you chose to do something or post something on facebook that is not in alignment with the college coach’s values.
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