Chris Clement

I’ve watched 10,957 recruit highlight tapes over the years. Some do a great job highlighting the athlete’s skill sets, while others fall flat. Here’s the ultimate guide for putting together a highlight tape that will grab a coach’s attention and help get you recruited. What To Include Your highlight tape is your athletic resume. You want to include your best plays, but you also want to show some versatility. If you’re a Linebacker, for instance, you don’t want every single play to be a Blitz. Add some read-and-react plays, pass coverage, etc. But don’t go overboard with the versatility if it means adding mediocre plays to the tape. Stick to your best clips. The Order I’m a firm believer in this one: Put your best plays at the front of your tape. Your very best play goes first, your second best play goes second, and so on. The goal is to keep the coach watching. Indicators With today’s technology you should be able to circle yourself or use an arrow to indicate where you are on the field. It’s important to do this as early as possible on every clip. Coaches want to see your stance, your first step, all of it. Highlight yourself immediately. Special Teams If you can, it’s a good idea to include some Special Teams clips. This speaks to versatility, but these are also the best plays to show your top-end speed and your willingness to be physical. A commitment to Special Teams also says a lot about what type of player you are. Don’t skip the Specials. Length Your highlight tape doesn’t need to be a feature-length film. Stick to about 3-5 minutes. Taking out a mediocre play often strengthens your tape overall. You can always have a longer tape ready if a coach asks to see more film. It’s called a “highlight tape” for a reason. Use these tips to put together a great tape so you can find the right fit at the next level.

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Ambrosie: 2023 was a rather remarkable year for us in many, many ways. Points to scoring (up 18%), close games (60% decided in final three minutes) and more explosive plays.

Pre-print of "Analytics, have some humility: a statistical view of fourth-down decision making" is finally up arxiv.org/abs/2311.03490, diving into all the gory details ! "The practical football lesson...is that far fewer fourth-down decisions are as obvious as analysts claim."