Recruiting in college football has now become a year round task. College coaches will sometimes spend 2-3 years recruiting a player, usually persuading him that their school has the biggest need for his skills. Then when he attends his first practice expecting to receive the same amount of attention he received during the recruiting process, he quickly finds out what “de-recruiting” is.
De-recruiting is the process the coach uses to let the recruit know that his value to the team might not necessarily be exactly what the coach told him during his recruiting experience. Yes, he was right when he told you that you could make an immediate impact on the team. But what he really didn’t tell you was that the impact was going to be holding a dummy for the scout team.
The de-recruiting continues to take place at 7:00 am the next morning when the prospect is at your office door telling you is going home. It continues when 30 minutes later the secretary sticks her head in your office to inform you that the prospects mother is on the phone, and wants to talk to you NOW!!! She just doesn’t seem to understand it when you tell her all young players go through the same thing.
Now you can understand when a Head Coach is interviewed a few days before his first game he always says how happy he is that the first game is finally here. As a Head Coach I actually liked recruiting. I just didn’t like the de-recruiting.
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