It’s a 30 question test. You can miss up to six answers and still pass. Seven or more incorrect, you fail.
I missed seven.
Guess I’ll never be a football coach, after all. Or any coach, for that matter.
Tuesday, June 23, 9 a.m., Mississippi State football team meeting room
Once a year, every coach in the NCAA has to pass a recruiting test. If you don’t pass it, you don’t recruit. If you don’t recruit, you don’t have a job.
Gil Grimes is the Assistant SEC Commissioner for Legislative Services, easier explained as the compliance guy for the Southeastern Conference, and it is he who A) proctors the tests for conference staffs and B) allowed me to sit in and take the exam at Mississippi State Tuesday morning.