It’s been right in front of their faces the whole time and they never knew it. College coaches had the greatest recruiting weapon at their disposal and didn’t even know it.
Convicts. Convicts? Convicts.
High school know-it-all doesn’t want to attend your program? Don’t send over more coaches or a big-named player – send letters from someone doing 5 to 10 in a maximum-security prison.
Charlie Weis knows what I’m talking about.
The recruiting process, as it has evolved over the years, is no longer an intimate courting between college coaches and high school prospects.
A couple recruits in Arizona — including Devon Kennard, son of former Wolf Pack player Derek Kennard — received multi-page letters from an inmate in the California State Penitentiary system urging them to choose Notre Dame.
Could you imagine being one of the top high school prospects in the nation and you get a letter from an inmate urging you to choose a particular school? I don’t know about anyone else, but my ass would be going to that school. I’m not going to be the one getting shanked by some convicts in a back alley somewhere because I didn’t choose to play for their favorite college football team. No sir.
