There are sliding doors moments in life that pass us by every day. But in recruiting those sliding doors moments are amplified ten-times over, with one recruit’s decision affecting another in a tangible way, and another recruit’s decision affecting another in a different way, and so on. Opportunities come and go. Offers are committable then they are not. The moving pieces in recruiting are like an unsolvable puzzle that miraculously come together by signing day.
I can’t lie though: I fixate on the sliding doors moments — and sometimes more so than the actual moments. The what-ifs in recruiting are in part why I became so fixated on OSU recruiting years ago.