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Recruiting Gurus = Empowering Leeches

December 15th 2009 05:22
: College Football Recruiting Gurus = Empowering Leeches
I do a lot of traveling for my day job and as a result get listen to a variety of sports talk stations. It's usually interesting getting to learn the hot topics in local markets. Unfortunately in most college based cities its a slow time of year and many fill the dead air with so called recruiting experts.

In my opinion these guys are part of what is wrong with college football today. They make their living pumping up eighteen year old kids by placing stars by their names and revelling in their indecision. The longer a kid takes to choose a school, the better the chance that they can sell their "inside information" to gullible fans.

I had a good friend who happened to be Mr. Football in our state. He always talked about getting twenty to thirty calls a day and this was before everyone had cell phones and text service. I can only imagine how many calls today's recruits receive.

The result of the increase in recruiting sites is that more and more recruits are dragging out the process to get maximun exposure. Many fans get to know the recruits and the stars by their name and assume that the high rating will equate to success on the field. I've seen many two star players make the pros and at the same time seen five star players buried in the depth chart.

My advice is for fans to not pay these guys one dime and to wait to see who their school signs in the first week in February and to ignore the mythical recruiting championship results. It wiill take years to find out if a recruiting class is sucessful or not.


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