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PGStaff10,000+ posts

A bit different perspective but every kid I tried to recruit heard the same thing. "Our goal is to win the national championship"

If that didn't seem to create any interest, we stopped trying to recruit that kid.

Same approach at two NAIA Schools, one scholarship one not. Obviously couldn't get most the kids that the DI schools were all after. Actually got some kids better than the DI schools around us.

We never promised anything other than we were going to play harder and smarter than anyone in the country and we were going to win. Some kids like that kind of stuff! In fact, the kids that liked that the most are the ones we wanted the most.

BTW, We never won the national championship, but it was always the goal. Did make it to the regionals 6 straight years.

I really believe that certain kids really want to win as much as anything else. Not sure that true winners need any guarantees.

That said, the financials ended up being the determining factor in most cases.

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