The Marshall Thundering Herd, a proud Division I school in West Virginia where NFL stars like Randy Moss, Chad Pennington, Byron Leftwich, and Troy Brown all played collegiately, is one of the latest programs to specifically mention Go Big Recruiting as an option for highlight/game film submission to all of their recruits.

The Thundering Herd competes in Conference USA and starts the season this upcoming year by playing both Ohio State and West Virginia!

Make sure you submit your video and information online to Marshall using Go Big if you would like them to evaluate whether or not you could possibly play football for their program.

That’s all you need to do in order to be able to send your video and information to 3 additional schools for free.

It doesn’t matter what sport they play.  Just as long as you email them via the “tell a friend” box in the bottom right of your student homepage after you log-in to your account.

As soon as they receive that, sign up for Go Big, and make an order, you will get an email with your very own coupon code so that you can order three free schools.  Better yet, as long as they sign up from your “tell a friend” email, they will get three free schools when they go to make their first order as well!

It’s that easy.  Take some time to let your friends and teammates know about Go Big, the best way to submit your videos and information to college coaches!

August 15th will mark the date of the new recruiting cycle for the 2010-11 school year for Go Big Recruiting.

What is a “cycle”?

The cycle is the way in which Go Big Recruiting differentiates between different seasons for recruiting film per the request of a number of college coaches.  It allows them to identify and separate the previous season’s footage from the current season.

What is the process like?

Go Big’s entire process is modeled off of the sending of DVDs through the mail, only our process is done entirely online.  So just like you would have to burn off DVDs from last season and send them out to colleges and then eventually do the same thing again for the upcoming season, Go Big works the same way.

How does it work?

The cycle really only comes into play for prospects that want to send their 2010-11 school year video to some of the same schools to which they already sent their 2009-10 video.  Just like sending out the new season’s DVD to their respective offices through the mail, prospects must attach the new video to their profile and place an order to those same schools for the new season.

This will ensure that the college coaches get an email notifying them that they have received NEW film from you from the 2010-11 school year.  Your name will then appear at the top of their Go Big inbox in bold, indicating new film has arrived, and when they click on your name to check out your profile and review your new video, you will once again get the email letting you know that your film and profile have been reviewed by a coach at that school.

All of the college coaches that you sent last season’s video and profile to will still have access to your previous video and information but they will NOT be able to view your footage from this upcoming season unless you order them again.  This obviously does not apply to any new schools that you have never previously ordered.

 Questions?

This process was created based upon the information that we received from the college coaches that we speak with on a daily basis.  If you have any questions or concerns, please email us at contact@gobigrecruiting.com.  We are here to serve you and improve the process of highlight/game film submission for everyone involved! 

The more we talk with college coaches, the more we realize that your GPA, test scores, and class rank really do matter in the recruiting process.  At some schools, they can matter a great deal.  At EVERY school, they mean something.

A lot of schools have certain averages from an academic standpoint that they must reach with their incoming recruiting class.  Others, like the Ivy and Patriot Leagues, have a tiered system in which they can only get so many recruits into school at each academic tier.

So what does that mean for you?  It means that the better scores you can get on the SAT and ACT, the better chance you have of getting offered by the schools you are interested in.  Whether your increased academic credentials put you into a different tier for the elite academic schools or just make you a better overall candidate than the other prospects a given school is considering, the fact is the better you do academically, the more options you are going to have.

That means get off to a great start academically when the next school year begins and also take the standardized tests again if you feel like you can improve on your scores.  If you haven’t taken them yet, sign up for a testing date as soon as possible.