Little Nigel just finished the recruiting process. It was actually like I expected but even more so. As he got older and his teammates/opponents were recruited, I realized how little any of the coaches knew about the player, history, tendencies, etc. It hammered home why it is basically a 50/50 proposition in recruiting. The coaches can only know so much. It is interesting to see coaches recruit kids and see how superficial it almost has to be. More than a few times I was scratching my head as to why they were looking at certain kids. But I don't bat 1.000 either.
It was certainly fun, but it got tiresome really quickly. That, and coming out of conversations with coaches thinking, "I am doing life wrong." It is mind boggling that some of them make the money they do. But I guess it's like that with most things. One thing I can say with certainty, the $9.95ers don't know anything unless the player has told the coach and they share that with the $9.95er. It is all guessing. They have no idea. Most of the time the player doesn't know yet, and the family certainly doesn't know, but they are reading things about where the player is leaning. Comical.