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Post by Aggie Monster on Oct 10, 2006 9:19:18 GMT -5
Take it from me. my company creates and sends out a college recruiting product. A list of my very close friends goes: Head coach, Head coach, assistant coach, AD, AD. Ast coach, Ast coach. So I have a small insight on how recruting works.
A&T has not been doing the job locally! Its all about relationships. Good high school coaches want to get as many of their kids scholarships as possible. At the high school level that will save your job. You go 6-4, 5-5, and 4-6 but you get 5 or 6 kids from the team a scholarship (somewhere) every year. That overides wins for most parents and ADs on the high school level. You do have to win at least 7 or 8 every 3 years or so. Nobody likes to lose, but getting kids scholarships looks good in the eyes of potential kids coming to your high school. And YES high schools recruit as well.
The point I'm making is that if you call a coach(as a college recruiter) and establish a relationship they are MORE than willing to have one with you. A&T has NOT done that in my area the past 5 years. I'm in Durham/Wake county. I think its a result of the coaching changes. The new guys haven't had time to establish those relationships. My boy tells me that certain coaches just call him up and say "What you got for me?". He tells them whats up and they make the decision or either tell him to send the tape.
Certain people just know and some have no clue
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Post by Aggie Monster on Oct 10, 2006 9:22:04 GMT -5
Just to add, That Winston Team that SMASHED us had 3 of that coaches players that I just mentioned. He says A&T never called on any of them.
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