Recruiting Types

#1 posting 4.25.2006

Here is your unofficial guide to:

COLLEGE RECRUITING TYPES
The Missionary: They take a kid that is a project in the hope of saving them and making them a player. My take is that you can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear.

The Twofer: Taking one player in the hopes of luring another (the more important) player.

The Instinctual: Taking players based on gut feel. Warning: could leave you queasy as inconsistency develop.

The Winner: only takes kids that have won and know how to win. Losers need not apply.

The Body Type: The frame is the name of the game. Those that have it are in, those that don't are out.

The Kid in the Candy Store: So many choices, they all look delicious. They all will lead to tooth decay.

The Loose Lips: Let's everyone in on the plans and torpedoes chances.

The Magnet: Has charm and charisma, style and class. Smiles often.

The Back Stabber: Has nothing but bad things to say about any program that may be in contention for a player.

The Smiling BackStabber: Smiles as they put a knife in your program through slander or inuendo. Kind of a wierd synthesis of the above two.

The Paranoid: Worried about potential recruits bolting due to Back Stabbers. If that coast is clear then the problem is injury, or sickness, or change of heart, or.....

The Critic: Nobody is any good. Everyone has flaws.

The Number Cruncher: Analyzes stats coming up with players. Uses computers quite a bit. This sounds a bit like me.

SIGNINGS
ND
Kayla Miller, Kenmare to Williston State

TRANSFERS
WI
Wisconsin is thinking about changing their transfer policy. There the problem seems to be the private school angle, compared to the MN issue of open enrollment. Here is Rob Fernandez of the Wisconsin State Journal in Madison with why the WIAA needs to pass the amendment http://www.madison.com/wsj/home/column/index.php?ntid=81385&ntpid=2


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