Recruiting is nuts

[dublinirish]

Coaching in NFL and college is the same, only WAY different - latimes.com

Funny article from LA Times today

 

[IrishLax]

Some of those anecdotes...

"Some guys could recruit tremendously for three months, but they couldn't close the deal," Glanville said. "Sometimes you've got to get mad at a guy as you recruit him and you've got to close the deal. I can't tell you how many times I told a guy I'm glad that he committed and he never really did. I'd say, 'Let me go tell your mom!' And he'd say, 'You're telling my mom? Oh, God, I just committed?'"

Then there was the recruit who informed Glanville that he had decided to commit to Tennessee, where the player's father was in the Hall of Fame, and that he planned to announce it at a news conference that afternoon.

"I said, 'That's nice. Let me take you for a milkshake and I'll bring you back for the press conference,'" Glanville said. "He got in my Buick Riviera, and I drove him to Atlanta and enrolled him at Georgia Tech. And they were sitting up there waiting for the press conference. Close the deal!"

 

[dublinirish]

Glanville sounds like a used car salesman, great stories there though.

 

[IrishLax]

Glanville sounds like a used car salesman, great stories there though.

Sounds like he'd fit right in with Jim Mora.

 

[ACamp1900]

"Some guys could recruit tremendously for three months, but they couldn't close the deal," Glanville said. "Sometimes you've got to get mad at a guy as you recruit him and you've got to close the deal.

Charlie Weis is a nutshell... at least on defense...