SoonerNorm
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I bet you could if you really had to.
If you know I wish you would tell us as no one else seems to know.
I bet you could if you really had to.
If you know I wish you would tell us as no one else seems to know.
I played softball for OU from 2003-2007, so I know what it's like to be recruited and especially with Coach G and in the softball world. I played basketball in high school so I do have background with that. Softball is completely different than basketball in terms of recruiting. In softball, if you're gonna win championships, you have to recruit from texas or California end of story. Basketball you can recruit from just about anywhere in the u.s....another thing is softball doesn't have any ranking sites. Basketball has hoopgurlz and football has rivals but softball doesn't have anything. So I would definitley say that softball is harder to recruit just because you don't know as much about the player. Two completely different sports with two completely different recruiting aspects.
A couple of differences come to my mind (and I'm sure Norm could think of them also). The first is that there are a lot fewer nationally competitive college softball programs than there are basketball programs. Therefore, the softball recruiter faces a lot less competition. Second, hawk points out that there are basically only two states to cover extensively in looking for recruits, so that seems to me it would make it easier.
The real point that Hawk makes is that softball and basketball recruiting are completely different. So maybe we should not be comparing apples and bananas.
I played softball for OU from 2003-2007, so I know what it's like to be recruited and especially with Coach G and in the softball world. I played basketball in high school so I do have background with that. Softball is completely different than basketball in terms of recruiting. In softball, if you're gonna win championships, you have to recruit from texas or California end of story. Basketball you can recruit from just about anywhere in the u.s....another thing is softball doesn't have any ranking sites. Basketball has hoopgurlz and football has rivals but softball doesn't have anything. So I would definitley say that softball is harder to recruit just because you don't know as much about the player. Two completely different sports with two completely different recruiting aspects.
Thanks for that post.
Good stuff, hawk. Being a softball fan, I wish I knew who you were.I played softball for OU from 2003-2007, so I know what it's like to be recruited and especially with Coach G and in the softball world. I played basketball in high school so I do have background with that. Softball is completely different than basketball in terms of recruiting. In softball, if you're gonna win championships, you have to recruit from texas or California end of story. Basketball you can recruit from just about anywhere in the u.s....another thing is softball doesn't have any ranking sites. Basketball has hoopgurlz and football has rivals but softball doesn't have anything. So I would definitley say that softball is harder to recruit just because you don't know as much about the player. Two completely different sports with two completely different recruiting aspects.
Every school has its advantages and disadvantages. Almost everything in life involves selling. Preachers sell church, teachers sell schools, every business person regardless of their job at one time or another sells something to someone. Recruiting is selling and using all the tools you have to accomplish and finish the sale. IMHO OU has plenty of tools to accomplish a better job of selling than is being done. I don't think we have a top salesperson on our staff. Does OU have negatives of course, so does every other school. However I think we have plenty of positives to sell we just don't have right person who loves to sell and is really great at doing it. We attracted some pretty good players for a while. Maybe we need to think about how, and more importantly who was making that happen! We have a great head coach who I think needs to hire a really good salesperson.