Forget all the stories you’ve heard about wild recruiting trips when prospects take their official visits to campus. The good stuff — like tales about encountering roaches and drinking dirty water — comes from the coaches who travel from city to city to lure these players.
Coaches and their assistants spend hours on the road, traveling across the country to the homes of high school athletes, selling their school and explaining to them why they should sign.
These trips include long hours in rental cars and a lot of time in airports. Visits to athletes’ homes are common and it gives coaches a chance to sit down with the entire family, on their turf, to get to know each other better.