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Read an interesting article from the print edition of Sports Illustrated this past weekend about collegiate recruiting (in this case it was basketball specific) and how it has evolved over the past 25 years.
It touched on the idea, which I happen to agree with, on how the recruiting letter is almost obsolete. Now, I want to note that I'm not talking about personalized letters to individual recruits, but the mass mailings which go out everyday to probably 100 different prospects. They interviewed a few high school players (one was a top 100 prospect), and all of them said they just throw most of it away without reading the material.
Has anybody seen this article?
Some schools are beginning to drop their mail count in order to say money, if schools can save an estimated $100,000 by not printing media guides every year, there has to be the same signigicant financial gain by not printing this useless material.
I think OU, especially with Capel, should get on this bandwagon. Does anybody agree?
It touched on the idea, which I happen to agree with, on how the recruiting letter is almost obsolete. Now, I want to note that I'm not talking about personalized letters to individual recruits, but the mass mailings which go out everyday to probably 100 different prospects. They interviewed a few high school players (one was a top 100 prospect), and all of them said they just throw most of it away without reading the material.
Has anybody seen this article?
Some schools are beginning to drop their mail count in order to say money, if schools can save an estimated $100,000 by not printing media guides every year, there has to be the same signigicant financial gain by not printing this useless material.
I think OU, especially with Capel, should get on this bandwagon. Does anybody agree?