Athletic Recruiting Process Quotes

TCU - they told me they were going to offer me a scholarship and kind of drug it out. I told other schools I wasn't interested because I thought I was going to be there. They disappointed me and kind of hung me out to dry right before signing day.

If we have somebody who may be ranked a little higher than another person, if one of them wants to be a Buckeye, wants to play in that rivalry game, play in the Horseshoe, that matters to us. We take all those things into consideration and we try to be as aggressive as we can on the recruiting trail.

Washington State was a tough recruiting spot.

My parents didn't know anything about collegiate scholarships, so they had accepted the national team training stipend, the monthly stipend that I received after making the national team, so I was ineligible for NCAA eligibility anyway.

It doesn't change whether it's Georgia, Clemson or Florida or Tennessee. You have to fight out there on the recruiting trail every day. And recruiting's a lot like shaving: If you don't do it every day, you start looking like a bum.

You see, some kids, the college coaches are calling them at all hours of the night, saying the same thing over and over again.

Notre Dame was my dream school growing up. But in recruiting, they had some other plans, what position they wanted me to play.

We could fill up a whole hour's television show talking about coach's recruiting stories, I love them, they're the best.

You see far more swings and misses on can't-miss football recruits than basketball blue chips.