Yo your story inspired me. I’m 17 years old and a Senior and unfortunately I’ve only played in practices as a DB and WR before quitting due to grades and injury. I’ve missed summer workouts due to a summer job cutting grass, so I guess imma just work on my body and mind, and try and play semi-pro when the next season rolls around. I’m by no means scared, just nervous to re-aggravate an injury. I’ve played head up with people who have college offers right now and I’m willing to put in that work. Do you think it’s worth shooting for XFL or A college offer and could I do it ? Because I see myself doing either music, sports, or something with tech.
I’m 17 years old and a Senior and unfortunately I’ve only played in practices as a DB and WR before quitting due to grades and injury. I’ve missed summer workouts due to a summer job cutting grass, so I guess imma just work on my body and mind, and try and play semi-pro when the next season rolls around. I’m by no means scared, just nervous to re-aggravate an injury. I’ve played head up with people who have college offers right now and I’m willing to put in that work. Do you think it’s worth shooting for XFL or A college offer and could I do it ?Because I see myself doing either music, sports, or something with tech.
If you're quitting hs football it means you probably don't like football that much, in which case college football is not going to be very realistic. It gets much more serious, less fun, and way harder in college. You probably like the idea of being a football player and what comes with it more than you actually like playing football. But that's up for you to figure out!
@@clayraterman I will definitely see. I’ve loved playing the sport, but basketball had my heart and I put my all into it, I just played football for the fun and love of it. I’ve only considered taking it serious, because I keep getting asked to play football and because I see myself in sports. What you said though is indeed true, but would trying to see if I want to go for it with semi-pro be a good option to see if I would have/build a genuine love for the game and maybe do ufl ??
try harder to get a scholarship for academics or work a hard construction job to pay for school if you have no other sellable skills. I did pipefitting in highschool
Thanks Clay For This Information It’s So Many Click Bait And Confusing Videos and Coming From An Honest Individual Who Actually Made The Team As A Walk On At THE Ohio State University Is An Amazing Experience and Accomplishment In It’s Self You Are A Real Life RUDY and I Know Your GrandFather Is Proud Of You.
I’m a college baseball player and would love to try to walk onto the football team, I’m a good athlete and I’m at a d2 school I have been thinking a lot about it I want to do it
Also I invented my own football game .if anyone interested go to RU-vid type in rob edit small eagles vs Rams game. Look iam my own version on nfl. I created this game when I was on team as a walkon. I never let Bruce arians see the.project I was working on as well as . practice football and going to class. This was done 1990. I know what is to be a walkon on football team and a art major at the same time
Guys i exactly know what you mean i too was a walkon back in early 1990 at temple university football.i had to walk to campus from south philly to morth philly temple campus to save money on bus .plus i had walk 5 am i had to walk an hour and half before I got to practice
What size and numbers should you hit as a running back to even consider trying out for the d2 level and can you be too old? Sorry for the big question 😅
Silly questions - as good of numbers as you can get is the only answer lol...there's no set magical numbers. I could tell you to run a 4.6, but what if someone made it with a 5.0 second 40 because of what was needed at the time? There's no rules but If you're looking for averages google average NFL combine times for your position and bump it back a little bit. The real answer is figure out it you want to actually do this or not. Then if yes, train your ass off at all the drills every week, lift, get in good condition, and go do your best. I think most people ask these questions about what number they need to hit bc they either want validation which doesn't matter (the only validation is making the team) or they want an excuse to not go try. So go try, try your best, and actually put in the work to give it a good attempt!
If I played juco Golf out of highschool & dropped out my third semester,, would that have any harm on my NCAA eligibility for football? Granted I’ll have to take juco classes to improve my Gpa to get into a NCAA school let alone have the walk on standard. Any reason I don’t walk onto a juco football team while I am improving my gpa for a future university alongside getting ready to walk on to a d1 team?
I’m trying to walk on somewhere. I’ve finished my sophomore year without going in on a single varsity play but man I know I’ve been working and I think I got what it takes. I’ve also learned to longsnap to try and put myself in a better position for success in addition to Safety. This was inspiring
Go make it happen brother. I didn't play as a sophomore in HS either. But I worked my ass off and became an all conference / district corner leading state in interceptions by my senior year. So don't think about walking on yet...you have 2 more years of MASSIVE potential for development in HS. The biggest 2. You need to find a way to play where you are now, that's step one. Get in the gym. Talk to the coaches. Specialize in something the team needs and become the BEST in the state at it. Don't run away from where you are right now by thinking of walking on. These next 2 years will determine if you have what it takes to walk on somewhere. Win where your feet are.
I'm not joking when I say this: my whole life was preparation. I played football my whole life and worked out like a maniac 5-6 days a week from 8th grade on (still do) Consistent actions over long long time. specifically for the tryout drills I spent about 3-4 months doing the drills before go time (the summer leading up)
I don’t have any prior experience playing football in high school but i want to try out to be a kicker because i played soccer a-lot throughout the years so do you have a different tryout for that position and is it more difficult for me to even tryout since i have no prior experience? Also can i tryout again in my sophomore year if i don’t do well on the tryouts in my freshmen year? Would appreciate it if you could answer these! Thank-you
Yes it would be harder of course having never played football. I've seen some soccer players do it before though too. And yeah you can tryout again as long as they have open tryouts
@@clayraterman it's mainly the crypto accounts that don't work, all the banking and credit cards work fine. I was considering using Fina, however, when setting up my first free connection I wasn't able to find a connection that I was able to make. I wish plaid would fix this haha!
Your 40 is the only thing they really measure and so that's the most important stat. You can get better at the 40 by running it a LOT. Practice your starts specifically. Its hard for people to gain "top end" speed....but you can easily shave a couple tenths off your 40 by simply perfecting your start. Many people don't do that so I'd start there.
They have a counselor who will usually help you schedule and get priority spots in classes to fit the schedule. Basically, you don't worry about it till you make the team, then you can switch stuff around.
I’m 5’11 215 pound running back I got to play in high school some but had some complications with family and missed 1 year of school so I was in wasnt eligible this year to play football and other problems ofc I’m getting my diploma and now I plan on walking on to a d1 school this coming year
I'm so sorry haha we have switched up a bit; but don't worry!! We are building something even bigger and better now so that will be available in the future. You should try Fina for now and I'll keep you posted on the new features coming
@@clayraterman Day to day budgeting isn’t my main concern right now but the setup you had on notion for pulling in crypto data looked awesome. Hope something like this comes back. I will continue to pull in data on google sheets for now
First week of fall and spring semester (typically aug/sept or January) - I've heard of some other ones that have happened at diff times or before summer as well
If you walk on to a big D1 school as a walk on, do you have the ability or option to redshirt for the team in your first year? Or is that only an option for scholarship players (or seniors)?
@@clayraterman Good to know. I’m currently playing JUCO, and I plan to transfer into some university by the following Spring semester. I’ll w you on more in the future.
I don't deal well with silly hypotheticals haha but if the question is "is someone who's a walkon at Ohio State good enough to start elsewhere", then probably yes, but it also totally depends on the person and a million other factors. For me personally, I would've never wanted to play at a smaller school so it never would have been in the cards.
@@clayraterman I totally get that. I’m playing JUCO ball in Nor CA rn, but I’ve been considering the walk on route to school like Nebraska, Oregon, ASU, or Georgia. Almost all of these school sound out of my league, but like you, I don’t wanna grow up having regrets about what level of competition I played for. I personally would rather fail at playing the highest level of CFB than have regrets at the lowest. I’m on schedule to graduate in Fall 23’, but I also could change that to Spring 24’. I’m going to walk on at at least one of these school by that point in time. So I’ll leave you updated on how that goes. Thanks Clay. 💯 -Stephen
I’m 6”8 260 played OT until 10th grade due to health problems and Covid ruined my varsity years. Lost 100lbs got healthy now I’m gonna train hard for a year, lean bulk to 290 and try to walk on. Thanks for the feedback
I’m 6ft 155LBS, I’m in the 8th grade I never played football but will like to start once my freshman year begins from now (March 14th) basically until June/July what should I focus on ?
Start working out, do some body weight stuff, go on runs, do some sprints. Then whenever you can try to play catch with some friends or look up what position you want to play and practice some drills. Just get in good shape and learn the game of football as much a possible and go have fun
I’m an 8 th grader that wants a place in high school and to do something with my life and I found football as the thing I’ve never even touched the ball but I lifted weights for a year and I’m pretty strong now and I have 2 weeks before try outs I’m trying to get better stamina as mine sucks as writing this I just got off the treadmill I’m going to buy a ball today and learn to throw it I just hope for the best yk
Goodluck my friend!!! Don't put so much pressure on yourself, just go try your best and have fun. If you keep working out and working hard you'll improve
