WE HAVE A WEEK, LADIES AND GENTLEMAN. There’s tax season for accountants, holiday season for Honeybaked Ham, and then there’s signing day (ESD is on the 19th) for coaches. Recruiting will never be busier than it is right now, as coaches try to hold on to their recruits, flip some others and turn over every rock to find their next big player.
That job gets harder when you’re a brand new coach to your program and your area. Mel Tucker has to evaluate everyone Mike MacIntyre had committed, decide whether or not he wants to keep recruiting them, evaluate his top targets, bring in his connection, all on a compressed timeline.