If used properly, Zoom tours and phone calls can serve as powerful recruiting tools for a coach. Highly coveted recruits can still build relationships with college coaches and get a sense for which college will best help them achieve their goals. And, of course, the best salespeople can sell anything to anybody using whatever medium is available to them.
Still, there’s no substitute for in-person visits to campus for elite high school football players. There’s a certain energy that simply doesn’t translate through a screen. Three-star safety D’Arco Perkins-McAllister discovered that when he visited Florida for the Gators’ junior day event on Tuesday.