I’m pasting in this bit Jeff Haley wrote in last year’s recruiting chapter because it’s hilarious and still accurate:
“A number of years ago this chapter’s author was doing a radio hit for a sports-talk station somewhere in Texas when he was asked about recruiting. “I really don’t know anything about recruiting,” he said, when asked what chances the Longhorns had of landing Emmanuel Mudiay.
(It turned out, the chances were not good. Mudiay committed to SMU but never played college basketball, opting instead to play for a year in China when it became clear that the NCAA was not going to certify many of the classes on his transcript.