Recruiting Quotes

You start thinking about it a little bit more. I'm going out recruiting Sunday so that takes a little bit of the edge off. - Jim Boeheim

You spend three weeks in April getting yourself lined up for spring recruiting. You're trying to evaluate as much tape as you can. If you don't know who you want by this time, you're way behind. Character is more important too. We're being held accountable if guys leave with the new (Academic Progress Report). - Mike Shula

You see the kind of players we're trying to recruit. New Jersey, Philadelphia, New York. It's a tremendous recruiting base for us. - Brenda Frese

You need all the components to run a program. These days at this level -- at the highest level -- you need great coaching, great recruiting, great scheduling and great facilities. We need to get to that point, and we're short on the one part right now. Hopefully, we can get over the hump to make us a more consistent winner. - Tim Welsh

You have to get lucky in recruiting and stay injury-free. There are just so many things that can impact your success, it can really be out of your control. - Paul Hewitt

You have to be excited about a guy like Micah Johnson. Not only his physical abilities, but his leadership and his dedication in the recruiting process to help us by staying in touch and contacting other recruits. Two guys he spoke to long before he committed to us and he kind of wanted to see if they would join him at Kentucky were Josh Minton and Corey Peters, and darned if they're not all here. - Rich Brooks

You feel like you're able to see the future. And it's bragging rights. You may win or lose on the field. But what's better than saying to your rival, this kid we were both recruiting likes my school better than yours? - Scott Kennedy

You don't want to recruit a guy who has to change two, three planes to get here. You can get on a plane in Chicago and get here (directly). You can be in Dallas or Houston and fly right here. That's a different recruiting than asking a player from Pennsylvania. He has to stop in Chicago and change planes. You don't recruit Pennsylvania. You don't recruit to Tidewater Beach because the kid from Virginia has to fly to Atlanta first. But the kid from Atlanta can fly non-stop. I look for cities where it's a non-stop flight. - Jerry Glanville