One of the coaches at Dartmouth College, a prestigious I-AA (FCS) school that plays in the Ivy League, recently logged into their account at Go Big Recruiting and requested film from a number of prospects that fit their criteria both athletically and academically.

By the end of the day, over two dozen prospects had logged into their accounts after receiving the “Dartmouth is interested in you!” email and added Dartmouth to their list of schools to which they had sent their video online using Go Big Recruiting.

Multiple Dartmouth colleges then logged on that night and the next morning to view those prospects, several of which appear to be Dartmouth-caliber.  All of those student-athletes got emails confirming their profile and video had been reviewed.

That is just one example of the way in which a school can request, receive, and ultimately review your film online in twelve hours or less.  Amazing.  Try doing THAT with a DVD through the snail mail! 

FREE SCHOOLS!: For the first time you can now send your video and information to schools at NO ADDITIONAL COST as long as you refer a friend to Go Big and they both sign-up at Go Big Recruiting and make an order.  The best part about it is that it is a win-win for everyone involved. 

 As soon as you refer a friend via the “tell a friend” box located in the bottom right of your homepage after you sign into your account, those friends will receive a coupon code that is good for 3 FREE SCHOOLS.  Then, as soon as they fill out their profile, upload their video, and choose some schools, you will receive your own coupon code that is also good for 3 FREE SCHOOLS. That is three more opportunities for you to get noticed and possibly recruited by a great college or university!   

Signing day for the Class of 2010 is almost here which means that soon all of the college coaches will be focusing all of their attention on YOU!  In fact, very shortly you will likely to start to receive letters from colleges that are interested in you as a football prospect.  A bunch of those letters will even mention Go Big as their preferred online option for receiving videos.

Do you know what schools you are interested in? Do you have a highlight film?

If the answer to those is no, we strongly suggest you start to think about ALL of the schools that you could possibly be interested in and figure out which plays to put on your highlight film and get one made as soon as possible.  It is NEVER too early to send your information and video to college coaches and in fact the earlier they get it the sooner you are on their radar.

Did you know your highlight film should NEVER be more than 5-6 minutes long and should ONLY contain your VERY BEST plays?  Plays that show you doing a number of different things like catching, blocking, and running for a back or pass-blocking, run-blocking, and pulling for an offensive lineman?

The good news is if you need a highlight film, we can do that for you at Go Big.  Just click on this link http://www.gobigrecruiting.com/highlight.php or email dave@gobigrecruiting.com for more details.

Just this week Brian Eliff, a quarterback from Pennsylvania in the Class of 2011, made his first order using Go Big Recruiting.

In less than one hour, NINE schools had already viewed his film and profile. NINE!

There are no other services that can come even close to that type of response.  Heck, they wouldn’t even act like they would be able to get that done.

 As always, it depends on the schools that are chosen and some look at their prospects on Go Big more often than others but the fact remains that Go Big is the best way to submit your game and highlight films to colleges.  It just is.  And the facts and stories like the Eliff one above continue to bear that out.

We have heard recently from both prospects and college football coaches that they are not receiving all of the emails that get sent out from Go Big via the contact@gobigrecruiting.com email account because at times they end up in their junk mail or spam filter. 

These critical emails include the ones that are generated by the college coaches themselves like: 

1.  “Your profile has been reviewed by XYZ college” when a college coach at that school clicks on your name and reviews your video and profile information. 

OR 

2. “XYZ University is interested in you!” when a college coach with that program searches through our database of prospects and identifies student-athletes whose film he desires to view on Go Big Recruiting. 

It is critical that you receive these emails from the college coaches so that you know exactly where you stand so make sure to add contact@gobigrecruiting.com to your address book or safe list on your email account.  We promise to never spam you or send you junk mail.  All of the emails are either generated by the coaches or monthly important announcements from the guys at Go Big.

Most of the Go Big staff has descended upon Orlando for the American Football Coaches Association national convention where we are rubbing elbows and meeting with college football coaches from every level.  The consensus among them continues to be that Go Big Recruiting is the most efficient and convenient way for game and highlight films to be distributed to college coaches.

Just yesterday, we spoke with coaches from schools like USC, TCU, and Arizona along with coaches from schools like Delaware, East Stroudsburg, Dickinson, Columbia, and Ohio Dominican.  These coaches continue to not only view all of the prospects that submit videos to them online using Go Big Recruiting but also REQUEST that high school coaches and recruits use Go Big.  It is simply much easier for the coaches to click and view the video with the information right there at their fingertips than it is to go through DVD packages.

FREE SCHOOLS!: For the first time you can now send your video and information to schools at NO ADDITIONAL COST as long as you refer a friend to Go Big and they both sign-up at Go Big Recruiting and make any kind of order.  The best part about it is that it is a win-win for everyone involved. 

 As soon as you refer a friend via the “tell a friend” box located in the bottom right of your homepage after you sign into your account, those friends will receive a coupon code that is good for 3 FREE SCHOOLS.  Then, as soon as they fill out their profile, upload their video, and choose some schools, you will receive your own coupon code that is also good for 3 FREE SCHOOLS. That is three more opportunities for you to get noticed and possibly recruited by a great college or university!   

If you are a recruit in the CLASS OF 2010, the time is now to get your videos and information to every school that you are interested in if you haven’t already.  Most schools have already keyed in on the top players that they hope to get in your class already, but that doesn’t mean they aren’t still looking. This is especially true considering often times those players decide that they don’t want to attend those schools and thus those colleges need to move on to the next player on their list.  It is your responsibility to make sure that you are at least the next person on that list.

For prospects in the CLASS OF 2011, it is NEVER too early to send out your highlight and/or game films via Go Big in order to make sure you are on the radar screen of each and every school in which you have interest.  The earlier you are on a school’s list, the sooner you can become part of their plans for the upcoming recruiting class.

Unless you use Go Big Recruiting to submit your videos to colleges, like they recommend, how would you know whether or not your video has been viewed?  If the coach did watch the DVD and liked what he saw then, and only then, you might get a phone call from them.  Other than that, you would have absolutely no idea.

 That’s not ok.  You have a right to at least know whether or not your video has been viewed by a coach at that school.  If they don’t like you as a prospect, you can live with that.  But not knowing whether or not they even got it or watched it?  That’s not ok.  And that’s why we started Go Big Recruiting.  You have a right to know and Go Big gives you that right.

They really do.  Have you ever been in the office of a college football coach?  All of the DVDs sit in a crate in the corner of their office.  They try to watch them when they get a chance, but even then, it is primarily the kids that they already know about or the prospects that come from power-house high schools.  Where does that put you?

Most importantly, even if they do watch your DVD, you will NEVER know unless they really like what they saw and they get in touch with you.  At least with Go Big you know exactly when your profile and video have been reviewed.  That peace of mind allows you to never have to wonder whether or not your DVD is still buried in the bottom of a crate.