(Yesterday we had Part 1 of this recruiting article where we addressed a couple of pertinent question about the business. This Part 2 continues that and we’ll have Part 3 on Thursday to wrap up…)
3. Is it only the players who have to be convinced to go to a certain school?
The answer to this is a resounding no! Every Pitt player’s family, mostly parents, I have talked to said that the coaching staffs probably spent as much time selling their school to the family and recruit’s HS coach as they did with the recruits themselves.
After all that is why they do “in-home” visits. On those trips the staff doesn’t necessarily need or want to talk to the recruit so much as have the family hear them talking to the recruit. A good recruiter will have already had many, many conversations with the player before an at-home visit. Walking into the home itself is when showtime begins.
Here is an interesting website that covers recruiting from a family point of view. Covering in-home visits the author, a past college football staff coach says this:
