I, for one, see nothing wrong with the Colorado School of Recruiting. If I was a 17 year old recruit, nothing would prepare me for college more (or at least the experience I had in college) than feeding me some booze, taking me to a strip club, and bangin' some broads. Its the American way, dammit. Your college experience may have been different, but I went to a state school.
Brad | Email | Homepage | 03.16.06 - 8:27 am | #

My experience was different. I went to Notre Dame. My parents don't drink and I never really saw any value in that or any other lascivious activities until the later half of my college years.

Of course, since leaving the private Catholic university, and moving to the big city, my perspective has evolved.

To each there own, I think.

However, I wonder what kind of recruiting tactics Gerry Faust used, cause that guy sure brought in some good talent.
atepesm | Email | Homepage | 03.16.06 - 9:48 am | #

There was a story about a RB prospect who mouthed-off his mother in front of Faust during the in-home visit back in 80's. Every time in conversation, his mother was trying to remind him that Notre Dame is a great place to be and that probably irritated him anyhow..

After explaining the boy why he didn't appreciate his attitude toward his mother, Faust then said goodbye and left the house. It happened in Ohio if I remember reading it somewhere.

Do you guys know about this too?
Tintin84 | Email | Homepage | 03.16.06 - 1:37 pm | #

Yep, that Faust story went around, I think it might have made the papers or SI.

Given the desperation that seems to have hit readers of BGS, I think once spring practice starts, it would behoove the leadership of BGS to mount a static camera atop the Joyce Center focusing on the practice field. No need to zoom in or provide insight to opposing teams, rather simply to provide the regular ND fan with an abstract comfort, a mother's milk let's say, until that 2nd day in September in Georgia.
Yago | Email | Homepage | 03.16.06 - 3:10 pm | #

Coach Faust's book "The Golden Dream" tells a lot of interesting stories. In the case of the boy mouthing off to his mother, Faust said he shoved the kid and told him to respect her, then asked for the hardcopy scholarship offer, and told him he they were no longer interested in him. At another recruit's home the mom answers the door and Faust gives her a big hug. She turned to her son and said, "you're signing with him." Faust, after all, recruited Tim Brown. There was another story of a hot prospect who said he wanted to go to ND. The kid's high school coach invited Faust to come meet him. When Faust got there, the kid was no where to be found. Then, at a stop light, he sees the kid with a friend in a car next to him. He yells out, "where were you?" and the kid panics and ditches him. Faust is understanibly peeved. THEN, the H.S. coach calls again to say the kid changed his mind EVEN though he signed a letter of intent to another school. Faust is like, c'mon, this is a joke, what's going on? The coach explains the other college coach gave him $500 to sign, and that was like getting a million dollars to a ppor kid. Faust replied that's too bad because the letter of intent is gold and that's that. Interesting read all around.
Joe | Email | Homepage | 03.16.06 - 4:14 pm | #

Happy St. Paddy's to all. I hope your night is as blurry as my mornings.
Brad | Email | Homepage | 03.17.06 - 8:18 am | #

Back in the mid-60's when I played rugby at Santa Clara University, we used to have a couple of great athletes playing for us. Since rugby was played only as a club sport in the USA in those days, you didn't have to be a college student or even a young person to play the game. These great athletes, whose names I don't remember and who played at a level way above the rest of us, played for us for the entire Spring 1967 season. The unofficial story we got was that they were "stashed" football players from Alabama. Coach Bryant would find alumni all over the country that would give these guys jobs, while they could either get academic eligibility or someone on the depth chart would go down with an injury. One was a linebacker and the other one was a safety. Boy, could they play. After the season they disappeared, and we never saw them again. After this I looked for them on 'Bamas roster or any mention of them, but they sure impressed Santa Clara's football coach at the time, Pat Malley. He tried to talk to them about switching over to our tiny little program, but they were Bear's people through and through. I believe someone said that Bear had about a dozen players stashed around the country like these two.
SCUBronco | Email | Homepage | 03.17.06 - 3:24 pm | #

Well...all these "old days and doings" are interesting but still never touches on the smooth, PR wise sleeze 2006 by almost everyone. Coaches, paid rags and etc,.
Sir John | Email | Homepage | 03.17.06 - 3:43 pm | #

Lannie Julias's stories don't really make sense. What was he worried the other coaches were going to do? Did San Jose State have so little self confidence that they thought recruits would jump ship after merely having a conversation with other coaches? Did the recruit have any idea why he was living basically on the lam in a motel with one of his coaches? Julias's story doesn't really explain, he mostly just talks about how sweet he was by slashing other coaches' tires and making nice with the waitresses at the motel coffee shop. What the hell was he doing to this kid? Did the other coaches have huge bags of money with them? Either that or the other coaches were planning to take the kid by force, that is the only defensible explanation for this sort of bullshit.
buNDa03 | Email | Homepage | 03.18.06 - 11:57 am | #

I wouldn't say its bullshit, man. Things were just different back then. He wasn't worried someone would talk the kid into going to a different school, he was worried somebody would buy his parents a new house if he played for a different team. Different time.
Brad | Email | Homepage | 03.18.06 - 12:53 pm | #

Just like the movie Bluechip with Nick Nolte as the coach who reluctantly made "arrangements" to bring a competitive basketball team..

Coaches don't like to lose. Coaches don't want to lose their jobs.. Look at Miami, how many assistant coaches did Coker fire? Including the DL coach who lost his wife to sickness and had to take care of his daughter. No compromise about it. That is sad.
Tintin84 | Email | Homepage | 03.18.06 - 3:57 pm | #