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Recruiting during a pandemic: COVID-19 presents UH football with new approach to finding talent

Typically, college football programs send staff members to high schools across the country to go watch certain kids play and personally meet them, but that was not a possibility this year given the pandemic and the UH football team has had to adapt and take a new approach to how they recruit.

“For years it’s been like I don’t want to sign these guys until I get to know them,” head football coach Dana Holgorsen said Tuesday evening during his weekly radio show. “Well you better get over that. You’re going to end up signing some guys that you’ve never actually met in person.