Oh Henry

[Captain Kangaroo]

Zips aiming high with this recruit

[johnnyzip84]

But it looks as if Boals may have been the one recruiting him.

[ksu sucks]

But it looks as if Boals may have been the one recruiting him.

This seems to be a recurring issue...

[Dave in Green]

It all depends on how much the head coach manages the way the assistant coach in charge of recruiting operates. Ideally, you'd want the assistant selling recruits more on the program rather than trying to establish too personal of a relationship. That way, if the assistant coach leaves the program, the recruits are not so inclined to follow the Pied Piper, but to stick with the program on which they were sold.The only way the UA program significantly changes is if the head coach moves on. But no one can blame a recruiter for trying to move his carefully cultivated recruits over to a new program he might move to. If UA should happen to get a new assistant coach in charge of recruiting, we would all expect him to try to switch those he'd been recruiting elsewhere over to UA.Bottom line is that sometimes you win in these situations and sometimes you lose.

[CraftyMFer]

It all depends on how much the head coach manages the way the assistant coach in charge of recruiting operates. Ideally, you'd want the assistant selling recruits more on the program rather than trying to establish too personal of a relationship. That way, if the assistant coach leaves the program, the recruits are not so inclined to follow the Pied Piper, but to stick with the program on which they were sold.The only way the UA program significantly changes is if the head coach moves on. But no one can blame a recruiter for trying to move his carefully cultivated recruits over to a new program he might move to. If UA should happen to get a new assistant coach in charge of recruiting, we would all expect him to try to switch those he'd been recruiting elsewhere over to UA.Bottom line is that sometimes you win in these situations and sometimes you lose.

Actually it is the assistant coach that is establishing the close personal relationship not the HC

[Dave in Green]

The assistant coach in charge of recruiting reports to the head coach. It's up to the head coach to ensure that the assistant does not establish the type of close personal relationship with recruits that would cause them to be more likely to follow the assistant if he should leave rather than stick with the program for which the players have been recruited. Easy to say, but no way to guarantee. So I would not put all the blame on KD if all of JB's recruits followed JB. But what happens in these situations is one of many factors that the best head coaches are likely to have a better handle on more often than the less successful head coaches. Who would a player recruited by an assistant to John Calipari be likely to follow if the assistant left Calipari's program and tried to recruit the player to follow the assistant to a different program?

[ZachTheZip]

So... is KD close to finding a new assistant?

[UADavid]

But it looks as if Boals may have been the one recruiting him.

Was that while at Charleston or Marshall?