Chadd Braine
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Defensive Backs & Special Teams Coordinator @STAHawksFB I Recruiting Areas NH NJ PA DE Small Business Owner @FirstGoalSports #WorkHardMakePlays #BCM
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The POWER 5 kid wants that NIL💰so he enters the portal.
The FCS kid dreams to play in a stadium where there are 100k fans.🏟️
The D2 kid wants to be a D1 athlete.🏈
The D3 kid wishes he received an athletic scholarship from a D2 school.📚
There are kids who didn’t get a…
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Rule to remember in D2 recruiting. If a Coach is responding to your texts, phone calls DMs they are interested in you. Don’t worry if that offer didn’t come yet. There are reasons we don’t offer everyone at one time. Each position is vastly different and at the D2 level…
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Don’t get frustrated with a lack of response from D2/D3 coaches.
I received over 100 DMs from Recruits & Coaches the last 24. We don’t have a dozen recruiting assistants at our level. Be patient, if you can ball and have a 3.0+ core GPA we will find you!
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Every recruiting cycle we meet a couple guys like Johnny the recruit.
D2 Coach in March
“Hey Johnny we are interested in you!”
Johnny the Recruit
NO RESPONSE
D2 Coach in April
“Hey Johnny just following up! We are interested in you.”
Johnny the Recruit
NO RESPONSE
D2 Coach…
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As I head into my 24th year of college football I have l seen freshmen college athletes succeed tremendously and some who never made it past the first day of training camp.
I thought I would share some 10 points for those joining a program this August.
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Camp Invites are cool.
Junior Day invites are nice.
Virtual Days are special.
Game Day visits are awesome.
When an official visit invitation is received you know the school is 💯 interested in you. Remember this you are waiting for something better than D2/D3.
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Football Camps across the country this summer…
How was camp?
WR “I learned a lot, loved the coaches but only got 2 reps in 1 on 1s because there were 48 TE/WRs.”
How was camp?
DB “Loved it but I need an ice bath, there were only 6 DBs and I took 132 reps in 1 on 1s.”…
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The absolute worst part of my job is telling a recruit we are unable to offer them because of their grades. Overlooked is the fact senior grades are rarely used in the recruiting process. What you do in 9th-11th grade can determine acceptance and often a lot of scholarship money.
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Recruiting is tough, don’t let it get you down. Believe it or not It is tough for college coaches as well. Half of the messages I send to recruits go unanswered as well because of lack of interest. Both sides need to keep working until there are mutual fits! Remember it only…
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The talent at the
@NCAADII
level is better than ever. If you are offered you are an elite talent. Don’t ever be disappointed if you “Only” have a few D2 offers.
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Can’t remember the last time I watched recruit film without knowledge of their GPA. Grades come first!
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The real MVPs of the recruiting season are the High School coaches who spend all day helping College coaches connect with their student athletes. Thanks to all of you who go the extra mile texting, calling, emailing us so we can recruit these fine young men.
#ExtraEffort
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If we offer you and three days later you schedule your visit, finish your application and have submitted all supporting materials we are impressed‼️
Everything in the recruiting process is evaluated.
Especially when 💰💰💰💰 is involved.
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2024 recruits and beyond! Be open to D2/D3 schools. Most of the players we will sign this year we had at camp and have been in contact with for close to a year. It’s very difficult to earn an FBS/FCS offer.
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As my eyes welled up with tears I watched a legend tip his cap to a program he built. He walked into the sunset without fanfare as super heroes do. Thank you for everything. I promise we will carry on your legacy and make you proud.
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As a solid
@NCAADII
football program we get hundreds of messages a day. We have a staff of nine coaches to recruit as well as build a championship program. If you don’t include your GPA & where you are from your message is probably going to be read at a much later time.
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Two choices as a HS senior……🤔
What are you doing and why?
1) FCS PWO
2) D2 Scholarship player
Not saying there is a wrong answer just curious if you are faced with this decision.
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If you have FCS offers I am still going to recruit you. I’m sorry to bother you but some of those offers are pulled six months from now. We are keeping our options open, we hope you do too!
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Division 2 recruiting is heating up right now now and it is stressful for everyone for one reason….💰💰💰💰💰
Quick run down of how this works. The schools have a set amount of scholarships they are allowed to give out. If they give out equalivencies or a dollar value it is…
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I’m can’t imagine how stressed I would have been as a HS senior if Twitter existed. I only had a few coaches call me but as I always say it only takes one school to give you a shot. Keep your head up & keep working. Once you get the shot take it & run with it!
#WorkHardMakePlays
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Transfers and 2023 I love the DMs but I have two simple requests…include your GPA and where you are from. We need a 3.0 GPA and if you are a transferring please have transcripts ready!
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Running track in the spring is 10,000 times better than training on your own for your football season. Plus then we as college coaches know exactly how fast you are!
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If you work hard and get good grades (3.0 Core GPA or higher) in school you are guaranteed to get Academic merit money from some schools. If you work hard at your sport there is no guarantee to get an athletic scholarship from any school. Think about that for a second.
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Class of 2025 things you MUST do between now and the start of your senior year. 👇🏽👇🏽
1- Finish your JR Year strong in the classroom. Your academic merit package and admission to schools is based mostly on your first three years of HS. You do not want to be a “We need to see…
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2024s you will be offered and recruited based on your transcript through your JR year. Finish this school year strong!!!! 📚📓📖
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Keep your head up if you aren’t signing today. It only takes one school to be the right fit for you!
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Received a Christmas card from a recruit in the mail. Not only was it a very nice gesture but was an unbelievable way to get noticed! Thanks, you made my day! 🎅🏽🎄🎁
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Today is the real “Black Monday” with D2/D3 coaches losing their jobs. They don’t receive a millionaire dollar payout and unfortunately many leave the profession for financial reasons. If you have received this news keep your head up and keep working towards your goals.
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Class of 2024 and beyond grind in the classroom! You don’t want to hear next year, “We need to see your Senior grades before we offer you.”
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25s It is Your Turn‼️
👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽🏈🏈🏈🔥🔥🔥
2️⃣ Weeks Away
Almost as good as being here in person!
Looking for the best of the best in 2025!
📚3.0 Core of Higher!
#BCM
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In late January at the D2 level college staff meetings are occurring throughout the day to talk about their recruiting board.
The board changes HOURLY‼️
One week you may not even have a walk on spot and the next day you have a scholarship offer.
Keep your phone on, your DMs…
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Excited to be in New Hampshire and join
@STAHawksFB
as the Defensive Backs Coach and Special teams Coordinator. Thank you to
@CoachJoeAdam
and
@STAHawksAD
Daron Montgomery for giving me the opportunity! Go Hawks!
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My favorite question as a college football coach. “What do you do when the season is over?” 😂😂😂
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D2/D3 Coaches are absolutely swamped right now.
I keep my DMs open but that means I get 100 messages a day.
I don’t want to miss that kid who may be a game changer but….
To guarantee a coach reads your message: 👇🏽👇🏽
1️⃣ 📕Attach Transcripts
2️⃣🌎 Send to the Coach who…
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Our Facilities are 🔥🔥
New Field ✅
New Locker Room ✅
Spacious Weight Room ✅
Team Film Room ✅
Academic Room ✅
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There is a lot more to the game than what you see on Saturday afternoons….
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Playing corner out on that island requires a special dude with a special set of skills.
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In the Garden State today! Looking for the best of the best!
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We give out partial scholarships at the
@NCAADII
level so every recruit is awarded differently.
Every recruit is awarded based on program need, academics, and ability.
When it comes to football ability we rely on two evaluations.
🏃🏾Live - In Person Camps or workouts. 🏋🏼…
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The first offer is huge‼️
That means the program is the first to believe in you.
They aren’t one of those programs who refuses to believe what they see, hear and feel about a recruit. They don’t follow the pack and offer after 20+ programs have.
We don’t care who wants you or…
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FYI
You are on a recruiting board if you get a DM via Twitter.
You can mass text and mass email but Twitter (X) messages must be sent one by one.
If a coach hits you up via X they are legitimately interested in you!
Oh yea all of you ballers who have your DMs closed you are…
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Over the next couple of weeks D2/D3 coaches will be in full force evaluating and offering kids.
Often we are going back on kids we saw over the summer. If you don’t have your film updated and your season is over you could miss out on at a great opportunity!!!!
Remember put…
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Boxes we must check before an offer is made…..
1️⃣ GPA📚
2️⃣Film 🎞️
3️⃣In Person Eval 🏃🏽
4️⃣Character 👍🏽
5️⃣Last but in my opinion the most important is….
Do they LOVE football? ❤️❤️
You have to LOVE football to play at the next level.
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D2/D3 coaches don’t have personal recruiting assistants and are very busy getting ready for each game during the season. When I personally have extra time I evaluate recruits in my area first who have filled out our recruiting questionnaire.
Take the…
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Junior Year Recruiting Calender for many recruits.
👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽
September-December
FBS/FCS Game Day Visits
January-April
FBS/FCS Junior Days/Camp invites are sent.
April - May
School Visits from FBS/FCS Coaches
May-June
FBS/FCS Camp Season
July
FBS/FCS
‼️SILENCE - NO OFFERS…
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2024 Recruits…
Best way to get recruited by us.
Fill out our online questionnaire. You will automatically be in our database and your area coach will evaluate you soon.
👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽
At this time we are still working on building an awesome class for 2023.
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Biggest myth in college football.
“I could go D2 but I’d rather go dominate at the D3 level.”
Its hard to dominate at any level.
There are ballers at every level!
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Mid-Year guys if you have over a 3.0 GPA we would love to learn more about you! Please take a second and fill out our online questionnaire.
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Why do we have so many Jersey guys on our roster
at
@SaintAnselm
College?
📍Perfect location near the 🏔️and the 🏝️.
📍Great Academics with a graduation rate 20% higher than the national average. 👨🏼🎓
📍Quality
@NCAADII
football program coming off back to back winning seasons.…
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Never be afraid to go after what you want! Recruiting at the D2/D3 is hard for us to keep track of everyone. I miss texts/dms sometimes with the volume we get. Do not feel like you are bothering coaches if you DM/text or email again after not hearing back from them.
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We have not practiced with our college team since April 30th. We begin practice along with many other D2 programs on August 7th and we all will be prepared to play our first game.
Why do many youth football programs practice more than college or NFL teams? Practicing all…
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I’ve seen recruits who have zero offers at Christmas time their senior year get 20 offers by signing day a month later. Don’t stress! Work hard on and off the field, be a good person and good things will happen to you!
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You can only commit to one school so you only need to find that one fit and that one school willing to give you the chance.
#BCM
#WorkHardMakePlays
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What we are looking for:
3.0 Core GPA 📚
High Character 👍🏽
Great Players 🏈
Get into our database.👇🏽👇🏽
Please don’t be lazy and cut and post links on this tweet. Fill out the questionnaire if you want a shot! 👆🏽👆🏽
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Best way to get recruited by
@STAHawksFB
is to have a 3.0 Core GPA & fill out our online questionnaire. 👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾
This automatically gets you into our database & the area recruiter will see your film for sure. 💯💯
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Recruiting in 2023 needs more honesty.
Recruits be honest with coaches and coaches be honest with recruits and HS coaches.
Stop stringing each other along. If you’re not interested just text them. It’s not personal it’s business.
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We are looking for more DBs in the class of 2024!
In two weeks we head out on the road to start the camp circuit. If you have grades, speed and skills we will offer you.
May 7th Don Bosco Prep
Ramsey, NJ
May 13th
St. John the Baptist
West Islip New York…
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Best advice my High School Coach gave to me heading to college. Be the first in line for drills and never ever walk on the football field.
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It’s ok to enjoy the recruitment process.
It’s ok to share your offers.
It’s ok to like being recruited.
You worked hard for these opportunities, take it all in.
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Taking a program which was one of the worst programs in
@NCAADII
to a winner.
Well deserved honor‼️
Congratulations
@CoachJoeAdam
‼️
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Every level of football has the “wait and see” recruits.
Don’t be insulted when a coach says you are on our board but we have to wait and see what happens to the guys who we have already offered.
This can change at any point during the recruiting cycle.
If you are…
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Excited for our first visit of the 2023 recruiting year tonight!
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Don’t be afraid to attach your transcripts when you message a coach. Be proud of those awesome grades! You work hard for them!
📚📓📖🎓
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My main recruiting areas are Northern New Hampshire, New Jersey, Delaware, & Pennsylvania. 🌎
I appreciate all the messages but recruits in those areas get priority as we start to visit High Schools. 💯
Please remember to include transcripts when sending messages! 🎓
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It’s a major turnoff when a recruit or parent talks bad about his current or former HS coach.
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Most underrated part in the recruiting process is the high school coaches. I appreciate all of you taking my calls, setting me up for visits & being honest! Thanks for being patient while we do our evaluations as well. Extra special shout out to the NH, DE, PA and NJ coaches!
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Congratulations to those who are signing today‼️
We are excited for the
@NCAADII
football signing day which is February 7th this year.
Remember if you are not signing today or have not been offered yet it only takes ONE school to believe in you!
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Keep your head up if you don’t have offers after camp! Grind and put the best film out there so you can’t be denied! If you can play and have grades we will find you!
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We literally have thousands of recruits in our individual recruiting areas. At our level we do it all ourselves. No assistants looking at film or grades. It’s tough to keep track and evaluate everyone.
But……
I 100% promise if you sign up for our virtual JR day and you…
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You MUST love to play football if you are going to play at the next level.
You must REALLY love to play the game if you are paying to go to school and play the game.
If you don’t have updated film by now you DON’T love it.
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Still looking for D-Line and O-Line who can transfer in January and join us for the Spring 2023 semester. If you have a 3.0 GPA and can join us in January hit me up!
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The spring of your Junior year is an exciting time. FBS/FCS junior days, virtual visits and camp invites all over the place. Remember they are only taking 10-20 HS kids per year while sending thousands of invites! If a D2/D3 coach sends you a personal note take it seriously!
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I remember being in class and seeing my buddy walking down the hall with a college coach. Sucked not to be included.
I can’t imagine how hard it is with social media and seeing others walking down the virtual hallway not being included.
Just remember this. You control your…
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Two facts few can dispute:
1) The Earth is Round
2) More kids want to play WR than Defensive Back at the next level.
Play DB, that is where the 💰 is at.
#WorkHardMakePlays
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Spending most of the day going through our database. If interested in joining us please take a few minutes and fill out our online questionnaire!
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I don't have a fancy graphic saying I am on the hunt for 23's but I am recruiting hard! Looking for guys with over a 3.0 Core from NJ-PA-Delaware and transfers who can make a difference! 3.o or above only!! Fill out our online questionnaire!
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Class of 2025 and beyond….
Free advice….👇🏽👇🏽
The number 1️⃣ mistake recruits and parents make is over estimating where they will land.
It is totally fine to have big dreams but be open to FCS-D2-D3 schools.
Go to a variety of camps, apply to those schools who want you.…
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Don’t worry about the number of “Offers” you get. You can only enroll at one college in the fall of 2024 so you only need one opportunity!
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Every week another HS Football coach is resigning in NJ and PA. We have to take better care of these guys!
There are not leaving because they are being fired or because they are retiring.
Hopefully someday the people in charge will realize the job they do is 365 days a year.…
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If I had a son who was in the class of 2024 I would strongly encourage them to respond to every coach who reaches out to them regardless of division. Sooooo many things can change over the next eights months! Keep those options open!
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We are 4+ Hours away from New Jersey but next year 25% of our roster will be from the Garden State.
WHY⁉️
Beautiful Campus 🏫
High Graduation Rate 🧑🏽🎓
Winning 🏈 Program
Perfect Location 🏔️
High Academic School📚
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Simple recruiting advice for the class of 2024. If you get a DM or text from a college coach they are legitimately interested in you‼️‼️ Mass emails serve a purpose but unless you have a dozen FBS offers don’t reject the lower level coaches.
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It dosent take many plays to see who the ballers are on highlight films. The next step is he a fit for our program? Is he a “We” guy vs a “Me” guy. Does he do what others refuse to do to be great? We are looking for the FULL package!
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