Your name goes on this report. A Director of Player Personnel does not learn to trust InHome, he learns to trust you. He remembers which scout was right about a kid two years ago, and he remembers which one talked him into a swing and a miss. Every report you turn in either builds that or spends it.

This page is where you show your work. Every rep you tag carries the situation, what he did, your read on it, and the spot in the film where it happened. A coach can go straight to that rep and see exactly what you saw. Now your grade is not an opinion he has to take on faith. It is something he can pull up, check, and defend in his own staff room when somebody pushes back.

That is how a scout becomes the guy they call first. Not by being loud about a prospect, but by being the one whose reports hold up every time somebody goes and looks. Do this well on a handful of players and personnel directors start asking for your evaluations by name.

• Tag the losses. A report where a kid wins every rep reads like a highlight tape and gets discounted on sight. Showing where he got beat is what makes the wins believable. It is also the only thing in recruiting that tells a staff what they would have to coach.
• Set where the clip starts and ends on every rep. That is what makes it findable. Without it, a coach has to hunt through a whole game to check one throw, and he will not do it.
• Say it the way you would in the film room. "Hands late, drifted a yard off his landmark, quarterback had to throw him open" is worth ten times "bad route." Your language is the product.
• If the film does not show it, do not claim it. Bad angle, ball goes the other way, you cannot tell. Grade it Neutral and say so. One invented detail costs more trust than ten honest non-grades.
• Twelve to fifteen reps on a kid you are pushing. Four reps is a thin file. Spread them across situations so a staff sees the whole player and not one good quarter.