Brad Bars (6-4, 225, 4.5) of Nashville Montgomery Bell Academy, Tennessee is a tremendous football player, but for some reason he has not been given to much love by the various college coaches and has been "Flying Under the Recruiting Radar" for the first part of this recruiting season.

 

On his highlight film, he plays both down defensive end and a standup rush linebacker, so he can play either one of those positions at the next level. He is aggressive and he chases down running backs on every play.

 

He is such a great athlete, he will play either running back or tight end as a senior. He also played tight end all summer with his 7on7 team and he was pretty sensational in catching the football at that new position.  I think that with his speed and quickness, he could become a really great tight end at the next level.

 

In the early spring, when I watched his junior highlight film, I thought that he would eventually become one of the top recruited players in the State of Tennessee before National Signing Date and for this reason, and I still believe that. For all of these reasons, I invited him to play in the 2010 All-American Bowl Game Classic, and he accepted.

 

All of this time, since the Spring, Bars has gone to as many Super Combines and Super Camps as anyone in the country, including Camps at Tennessee, Kentucky, Vanderbilt, Rutgers, Notre Dame, and Ole Miss.

Now the amazing part of this story is that Bars (6-4, 225, 4.5) is a super, athletic player who can run a legit 4.5; do a 36 inch vertical jump; and a 4.3 in the pro-agility shuttle; but not one single team that he went to their camp offered him a scholarship. Now, I'm going to give you my opinion why!

 

First of all, in recruiting, college coaches work almost entirely off of a recruiting board that me or may not be completely accurate. No college coach will ever have a completely accurate recruiting board to work from, but it is the only board that they have and they have to deal with that board and Bars was never on that board.

 

Secondly, since Bars was not on that recruiting board, coaches are not even evaluating players that come to their camp if they are not on their recruiting board. This sounds pretty amazing to the parent or the player that makes a spectacular catch or makes a spectacular move to get past a blocker and make a tackle. These plays are non measured plays that do not have a time or distance credited to it.

 

In each camp that Bars went to, he was outstanding and in fact at a couple of them, he just bearly missed getting an MVP Award. No team offered, but the reason was not that he did not deserve an offer, but no school wanted to be the first BCS school to extend an offer.

 

Bars will play in our Sixth Annual 2010 All-American Bowl Game Classic on January 9, 2010 and I believe that on Tuesday January 5, during College Coaches Day, he will receive numerous offers. I am not sure on which side of the football that he will play in the game, but I believe that he will be outstanding in that game.

 

His dad, Joe Bars, played for Notre Dame and one of his uncles also played for The Irish. His grandfather player for Michigan State. Bars is our second Hybrid End that will play in our All-American Bowl Game Classic. A Hybrid End will play half the game at tight end on offense and the half of the game at defensive end.