While it may be to some on here I've been around this game for over 15+ years seen anything from church remodeling to parents becoming Drs w/o licensure. Like man I also watched the Cam Akers debacle from a 1st hand standpoint because I hv ppl in Mississippi who were directly involved. Again my 1st hand knowledge is why I don't really engage but attempt to educate on the things I see and hear regardless of what ppl want to hear on this board. Hell ppl argue with Buck too at times on VQ. A lot of yawl want corrupt business to have integrity and be an honest business. I'll gv you a tidbit on a coach who recruits in top 7-10 yearly and has been a NROY a few times. He took it upon himself to enroll and take business and sales classes and became a top recruiter of the yr multiple times. He then has made his entire coaching staff wherever he has been do the same. Thus he learned a new approach to the game and has helped him and those around him to be elite. At one point 5 coaches around him were HC and they all know relationship, the bag, selling points, and connections are very important in no specific order. The one thing that is ultra important points regardless of the prospect has always been winning and the bag.
Last thing I'll lv is this I had a kid go on a visit to a top P5 school, and we arrived and a former pro player approached me and said coach let's ride and let me show you some things. The player left with position coaches and others. Once we were separated I was given a sling pack with 2 separate packages in it. One said coach and the other said player. We had lunch at the top steak house vs with he other recruits. HC, former pro player, recruit, and position coach, a lead from recruiting staff, boosters who owned this restaurant, and a pastor who cm in blessed the food and spoke a few kind words about the kid being in FCA and he'd love to mk him a member and youth ministry paid leader basically w/o being there regularly due to road games and other obligations, etc. Man I'm saying all this to say while winning makes it easier the levels these schools go to never fails. Those envelopes were very very handsome and NO the kid did not chose this school but they were a finalists. Another package was better and the kid chose a school in a worst situation and became a pro