Sports Insider 2020: Challenges with recruiting

Sports Insider 2020: Challenges with recruiting

Process easier.xxx a pandemic upending sports is adding another wrinkle to the recruiting of college athletes.

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Times when we go to college games... we never think about the route in which they got there.

I spoke to two coaches today who both say covid?

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"*d kind of told us the keyword is flexibility.

You know you have to be flexible in your approach to everything and the safety of the kids has to come first.

Coaches train their athletes to adapt to ever changing circumstances.

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Now the coaches are finding themselves doing the adapting..

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"* say most important thing in the recruiting process right now is building a relationship with recruits.

Right now it's making that connection with the students.

Obviously everybody needs that connection and right now we need it more than ever i would say.

So making that connection and then going into the information.

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It's like this, it's just tons ?

"* kaleb it's a ton of zoom man.

I mean it's just all the time.

I have two zoom calls with recruits tonight.

As recruits learn about the affordable tuition and the program's success... the process becomes easier.

Success breeds success, right?

So you know when new recruits see that success they want to be a part of it.

Vaught says he is finding an increasing number of recruits willing to stay close to home and he attributes that to the uncertainty of this pandemic.

I had a player i was recruiting tell me that.

You know i want to stay closer to home.

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Me the virtual process works... he has three student?*- athletes on campus that had only seen it virtually who told him it was