SIAP, but for those of you with a subscription to The Athletic, here is a good article about recruiting from recruiting staffers in various conferences....
‘It is hard to say no to Nick Saban’: An anonymous survey of recruiting staffers
Here are a couple of snippets I found interesting...
What is the biggest misconception in recruiting?
SEC-1: “Simple. That recruits watch the outcome of games and think that they’re going to go to the place that wins. It’s the converse that is many times true. Because when we lose a game, we’ll have recruits call us and say, ‘If I were out there, you guys would have won that game.’ They don’t care about wins and losses.
“You have isolated instances where kids come down to one game, but the majority of what they care about is the totality of the program, the long-term record, the facilities, the people and the track record of people in the NFL. Winning and losing in one game? That’s a complete myth. It doesn’t matter.”
Pac-12-1: “Probably that the history of a school and tradition and anything they have done previously in their history outside of the past five years matters to recruits.”
"What percent of your 2021 class have you been unable to evaluate in person because of the COVID-19-related dead period?
SEC-2: “60 to 65 percent”
SEC-3: “85 percent”
SEC-1: “Since March, we haven’t had any in-person contact. But we’re in a state where we have pretty good talent and guys would come to our campus as freshmen and sophomores. So, I would say, as a percentage of people who have come and camped with us to evaluate in person, I would say 40 percent tops. So 60 percent we haven’t seen.”
