Sweaty two-a-days are well underway for college football players across Texas, but for the practicing freshmen who weren’t topflight recruits out of high school, the real grind started long before this summer. After all, to earn a spot on a college roster these days means logging miles on the camp-and-combine circuit (traveling to universities around the state to play in front of coaches), cutting endless highlight reels to promote oneself on social media, and paying premiums of upwards of $10,000 to recruiting consultants and private coaches.One Austin-based company wants to change all that. Last year a start-up called Scorability launched an analytics platform it hopes will upend the modern recruiting process by simplifying life for coaches—and, in the process, giving athletes and their families a…
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