expanded down to the college ranks. Basically I take hours and hours of raw film and create 5-8 minute eval vidoes of prospects. One of my clients is the University of Utah. There's a under-the-radar QB prospect that I think has a huge upside. I pushed out my eval on the kid to both BYU and the U of U. BYU has no interest (we're stacked at QB with the pipeline full), but Utah is constantly losing QBs to the transfer portal, their own defense, and injury, so even though he comes from a BYU family, I sent his eval up the hill to Kyle's staff.

Turns out Utah really likes the kid. They brought him in to camp and ultimately offered him this past summer. They view him as a low-risk offer. He's got a big frame, and has incredible raw athletic ability. He's not very developed at QB though, so if he doesn't pan out as a QB, they can always turn him into a LB. Anyway, I'm hearing his dad is throwing a fit about him taking the Utah offer. He thinks his son is good enough to play at BYU and should be holding out for a BYU offer. If it never comes, he'll probably cause drama constantly for the kid.

The last thing I want to do is have the reputation of my eval service marred by a dumb helicopter parent who doesn't know when to get out of the way. I'm thinking about reaching out to the U of U coaching staff and modifying my recommendation. I think I can dig up contact info on Dad as well and possibly reach out to him. Is there a polite way of telling him to tone down his rhetoric and not blow up his son's chances of keeping his one and only D-1 football scholarship offer?