One thing that I will never forget and kick myself now about with the coach at my son's former school:
He recruited my son hard. Texted with him a lot...almost everyday just before he verbally committed. When we had the visit with him, before committing, he said something to me, my wife and son: "I realize that you could go D1 and play with a Power 5 and I wouldn't blame anyone who makes that decision. But, at our school we can offer you...(and then he went into his sales pitch)."
And, when he said it, my first internal private thought was "Does he think I'm an idiot? There's no chance in hell that my kid is getting offered by a P5."
It just came across as very insincere and rubbed me the wrong way. But, I ignored it and focused on "what I wanted to hear" and that was a mistake. Because, in the end, despite everything that I heard about him, the coach turned out to be different than what we had heard (and wanted to hear).