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Recruiting

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by slappy4428, Feb 5, 2007.

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How do you feel about the expanded coverage of high school recruiting

Poll closed Feb 9, 2007.
  1. Love it; can't get enough

    9.5%
  2. Hate it; more work for me and get a damn life people

    71.4%
  3. Doesn't bother me either way.

    19.0%
  1. Eagleboy

    Eagleboy Guest

    I haven't followed recruiting for long - perhaps two years, at most - and only follow it locally, not nationally, but I think that the allure of following recruiting is seeing players who are ranked highly either pan out or not. That's just something that intrigues me, though - if I could, I think I'd like to actually be the recruiting coach for a school.
     
  2. Norman Stansfield

    Norman Stansfield Active Member

    Wasn't there a college hoops coach that did this too? Bobby Knight perhaps?
     
  3. HejiraHenry

    HejiraHenry Well-Known Member

    Yeah, I think that was Damon Bailey.
     
  4. Shaggy

    Shaggy Guest

    http://sports.yahoo.com/ncaaf/news?slug=tb-roughrecruiting020507&prov=yhoo&type=lgns

    Great story about the Bowdens.
     
  5. Shaggy

    Shaggy Guest

    My take on recruiting is this:

    1. Many of the rivals writers disgust me because of how far up the head coach's ass their noses are. They know that if the coach cuts them off, they're toast.

    2. We give it some attention. Not a ton, but some.

    3. The thing that baffles me about those geeks who follow recruiting religiously is that they often are looking at the 2009 class without really even caring how the 2007 team performs. It's really baffling.
     
  6. Piotr Rasputin

    Piotr Rasputin New Member

    Sounds like Ivan Renko redux.

    I voted hate it. Get a life, people. Pine for your school to get a good coach.
     
  7. Inky_Wretch

    Inky_Wretch Well-Known Member

    Thanks to the FWAA, I've got a free Rivals membership. So I surf around different team sites, reading the recruiting gurus' work.

    Last week, one of them posted that he was talking to the recruiting coordinator of the school he covers. During the conversation, this guru said "I told him I don't know why they haven't offered a scholarship to (some kid whose name I don't remember). I told him I thought the kid deserved an offer."
     
  8. leo1

    leo1 Active Member

    hated covering it. hate reading about it.

    the one thing i think should change about recruiting coverage is that until the letter is signed on signing day, every single recruiting committment story should prominently feature the disclaimer that verbal committments carry zero weight and are subject to - and often do - change on the whim of a 17-year-old kid's mind.
     
  9. Pringle

    Pringle Active Member

    It's tough to say "It doesn't mean anything so it shouldn't be covered" because even though it seems like there are a lot of kids who change their minds, there are also 95 percent of them who stick with their initial verbal. So it is newsworthy, so long as you disclaim it.
     
  10. tapintoamerica

    tapintoamerica Well-Known Member

    Recruiting of football prospects is often worthless for so many reasons.
     
  11. slappy4428

    slappy4428 Active Member

    Exactly... recruiting geeks always look ahead and want to know where their class is ranked, but never stop to see, ya know -- PERFORMANCE -- down the road...
     
  12. WSKY

    WSKY Member

    Is it signing day yet?
     
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