Wed Aug 01, 2018 7:38 am
Alphawalt wrote:gtmoBlue wrote:per twitter, Alex Slater...Cockburn reduces friction by narrowing his focus & list... Jays didn't make the cut.
https://twitter.com/Andrew__Slater/stat ... 8913921026
Looks like my comments at the top of this page were spot on. I don’t mind putting out a lot of offers. I do mind putting out unrealistic ones.
Wed Aug 01, 2018 9:09 am
Alphawalt wrote:
Looks like my comments at the top of this page were spot on. I don’t mind putting out a lot of offers. I do mind putting out unrealistic ones.
Wed Aug 01, 2018 11:20 am
Wed Aug 01, 2018 11:46 am
Alphawalt wrote:gtmoBlue wrote:per twitter, Alex Slater...Cockburn reduces friction by narrowing his focus & list... Jays didn't make the cut.
https://twitter.com/Andrew__Slater/stat ... 8913921026
Looks like my comments at the top of this page were spot on. I don’t mind putting out a lot of offers. I do mind putting out unrealistic ones.
Wed Aug 01, 2018 8:23 pm
mredle wrote:Alphawalt wrote:gtmoBlue wrote:per twitter, Alex Slater...Cockburn reduces friction by narrowing his focus & list... Jays didn't make the cut.
https://twitter.com/Andrew__Slater/stat ... 8913921026
Looks like my comments at the top of this page were spot on. I don’t mind putting out a lot of offers. I do mind putting out unrealistic ones.
The most apt analogy for recruiting isn't dating, it's sales. Sometimes in sales salesmen make what are called "cold calls." That's part of it as are contacts with kids you have some kind of connection with. My aunt used to teach at St Cats high school in Racine Wisconsin. When Jim Chones (now does color commentary for the Clevveland Cavaliers) was in 8th grades he received letters and promotional materials from close to a hundred colleges and universities. The vast majority of those are "cold calls." When I was getting recuited I knew 1 of the coaches. My coach knew several more. I guarantee you I certainly didn't know the coach at Dartmouth.
Wed Aug 01, 2018 10:06 pm
Alphawalt wrote:mredle wrote:Alphawalt wrote:
Looks like my comments at the top of this page were spot on. I don’t mind putting out a lot of offers. I do mind putting out unrealistic ones.
The most apt analogy for recruiting isn't dating, it's sales. Sometimes in sales salesmen make what are called "cold calls." That's part of it as are contacts with kids you have some kind of connection with. My aunt used to teach at St Cats high school in Racine Wisconsin. When Jim Chones (now does color commentary for the Clevveland Cavaliers) was in 8th grades he received letters and promotional materials from close to a hundred colleges and universities. The vast majority of those are "cold calls." When I was getting recuited I knew 1 of the coaches. My coach knew several more. I guarantee you I certainly didn't know the coach at Dartmouth.
I agree with your sales analogy. However, rather than doing “cold calls”, relying solely on sheer sales ability to talk someone into doing what they don’t want to buy, it is better to get “leads” from solid info. I remember a summer between semesters while I was in college, I was essentially a “cold calls” salesman for that product, and it was frustrating to have people say no all the time. When I got my hands on a list of “prospects”, boy did the sales come easier. Same with recruiting, an offer should not be casually made simply on the hopes that maybe with a really super long shot, we may sign a recruit. It should be based on at least some kind of “lead”. It seems sometimes we offer a kid when we see them at a tourney, and offers are made at the same time by most coaches who attended the tourney. I know that was the basic deal with this offer. We should be more selective. Sure we will never compete with Kentucky or Duke, but we need to make offers in part based on some probability of signing.
Thu Aug 02, 2018 10:05 am
Outlaw_Wales wrote:Why?
Thu Aug 02, 2018 3:11 pm
vivid_dude wrote:Outlaw_Wales wrote:Why?
I've been trying to get this out of him in a couple different ways now. Hopefully, you have more luck than I do.
I see absolutely no downside to offering top recruits, especially in this case - where it was earlier in the process, i.e. before a lot of the other top programs had offered.
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