Deadspin has an interesting story on how a guy named Chris Sailer built a business running camps for high school kickers/punters, thus helping the best players get scholarships and college coaches to identify kickers/punters on whom they were willing to use a scholarship.
No Punter Left Behind: How One Guru Made The Art Of Kicking A Science
The business later expanded when Sailer convinced his own college long snapper, Chris Rubio, to join him and do something similar with long snappers.
Rubio was interested enough to help out at camps and build his own client list on the side, doing much of what Sailer had four years earlier until he was eventually able to quit teaching in 2007 to focus on Rubio Long Snapping and run camps as Sailer's full-time partner, the Teller to his Penn. ("We're not solving rocket science here," says Rubio. "You're snapping a dead animal, really fast, backwards.")
No Punter Left Behind: How One Guru Made The Art Of Kicking A Science
The business later expanded when Sailer convinced his own college long snapper, Chris Rubio, to join him and do something similar with long snappers.
Rubio was interested enough to help out at camps and build his own client list on the side, doing much of what Sailer had four years earlier until he was eventually able to quit teaching in 2007 to focus on Rubio Long Snapping and run camps as Sailer's full-time partner, the Teller to his Penn. ("We're not solving rocket science here," says Rubio. "You're snapping a dead animal, really fast, backwards.")