I guess the information glut today works both ways. The recruitniks, nowadays more electronic than paper or voice, are all looking to 'scoop' the other recruitniks. OK, so you set your parameters to feed you anything with the name of your recruit, Tristan in this example. Next, evaluate whether it's a 'shot-in-the-dark' or has substance. Usually, where there's smoke, there's at least SOME fire. Then, as the person's recruiter does their usual check-in, they work around to asking how the recruit is feeling. Well, I'm gonna take a trip out to Oregon (never seen the ocean or that much green grass). Boom, evaluate, and decide to start looking for a potential replacement. That news in turn fuels the recruit to look harder for a potential place to land, and voila. I would say it's hard to pull a switcheroo without a team getting a whiff of a recruit turning. I might be wrong, but a savvy recruiting coordinator has the coaches calling the committed recruits as much as they are calling the kids they want to add. Any other thoughts? Anyway, go Bucks, and I would like Santa to put two five-star DTs under Coach Johnson and Urban's Christmas tree this season.
