The news that Robert Washington was homeless for a period while also being committed to Syracuse shows just how little we connect with the kids we want to wear orange.
It's so easy to look past the fact that recruits are actual human beings. It really is. Just look at the way we treat them.
16 or 17-year-old kids that we do not know at all, whom we bombard with tweets and mock-ups and praise and adulation all in the name of serving our own purpose, completely devoid of what that kid's actual desires and hopes might be.