Dennis:
If Jack is the first name of the coach to whom you are referring and if he once coached at Holy Cross, then perhaps you did not understand clearly what he said. Maybe even if it is not Jack you did not understand.
Seems to me that his point most likely is that except for a few blue chip players at the top of the heap, kids who want to play in college need to do a lot of work to find and obtain the right opportunity, which, of course, is great advice and one of the main reasons for the existance of the HSBBweb