There are many occasions in life where you are forgiven and given another chance to succeed, but when you want a college football scholarship and you goof off during your high school athletic and academic career, you simply won't be given a second chance. That may seem harsh, but it is the stark reality.
There are roughly only 150 high school senior football players that are heavily recruited by college coaches across the nation. These student athletes will be recruited because they totally rock as football players, but what about the thousands upon thousands that don't fall intothis elite category?
While goofing off in high school may be fun at the time, if it causes you to miss out on a college athletic scholarship, it ends up being one of those painful things that you will regret the rest of your life. Unfortunately, if you blow it during high school, there just won't be a second chance for you.
Football in America is celebrated with great enthusiasm every year. Football fever is in the air from late summer until when the Super Bowl is aired on TV. When we are caught up in the excitement of rooting for our favorite college or professional team, it is easy to forget what it took for each and every one of our champions to get where they are on the big game day.
We tend to focus on the glamour and the memory of the big plays and the big wins rather than on the individual accomplishments of each player. Every football champion made an initial commitment to the game of football long before he landed on a college or professional team.
Think long and hard about the commitment you are willing or not willing to make to get a prestigious football scholarship. If you don't get one, I can promise you, you will be thinking about what else you could have done to help yourself in the recruiting process for many years to come and possibly for the rest of your life.
You will never get another high school career to recruit college coaches for a football scholarship. If you are hoping to land a college football scholarship, then you need to get serious and give it your all while you have your only chance, while you are in high school.
It doesn't matter whether you are NCAA Division I or NAIA material. Regardless of where you are on the talent scale, it doesn't make you more or less of a person; it simply makes you a better fit for different types of programs.
If your playing ability would qualify you for an NAIA or NCAA Division II spot, then don't waste your time trying to get a Division I scholarship. There is a very good chance that you won't get a Division I scholarship and by spending your time trying for a Division one scholarship, you will have let the opportunity for a NCAA Division II /NAIA scholarship slip through your fingers.
When you are goofing off or thinking of giving less than 100%, stop and think about it. Ask yourself how you will feel if you miss a college athletic scholarship by just a hair? How will you feel?
Is it fun to give 100% and fail? NO! But I guarantee you it is much better than giving 75% and failing. You see, that way you fail twice; you obviously won't get the scholarship and you failed yourself by not giving your all. There is a certain life long satisfaction in knowing that you totally gave everything you had to an endeavor.
Think about all the student athletes you know that have landed college athletic scholarships, have you ever heard even one of them say, "man, I don't even know how I got this prized scholarship?"
Or, have you ever heard a student athlete say, "I don't even know why I got this scholarship", I just got the thing in the mail, and then all of these coaches and the media just showed up on my front porch today". Nonsense, every step was planned and executed. You can do the same, but will you?
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