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Residual effects
When a college football coach interviews for another position, or is even linked with another opening, that coach accepts certain unavoidable truths.
If that coach decides to stick around at his current post, one of them is that he’ll likely say farewell to one or two recruits. When East Carolina head coach Skip Holtz spent the first part of last week in New York and being linked to the Syracuse University job he ultimately turned down, it created at least some stir with ECU’s recruits.
Word is that one of them, Somerville (N.J.) High wide receiver/defensive back Mike Naples, has sailed on his verbal to the Pirates in lieu of Boston College.
According to a report on mycentralnewjersey.com, Naples — also offered by Vanderbilt, Cincinnati and Akron — wavered in part because of Holtz’s potential interest in the Syracuse job.
“It got me thinking,” Naples said in reference to Holtz’s unknown future last week. “Everything about Boston College felt right. Everybody up there treated me awesome. I really like coach (Jeff) Jagodzinski. He’s like coach Holtz. They are both recruiting guys.”
It’s not an uncommon occurrence, mainly because some recruits obviously fear if a coach is looking now, he might be looking again soon.
While it’s unclear whether Holtz will be looking this time next year, the mere mention of his name in connection with other jobs can become a recruiting tool for other schools against him.
Even if a coach is around for the long haul, a couple of links to a couple of jobs can leave the door open for recruits to be swayed in another direction.
It’s the same reason, perhaps, that at least one seemingly solid verbal commitment fails to ink the dotted line every national signing day. Kids are impressionable, after all.
Comments
By aardvark
January 8, 2009 3:05 AM | Link to this
funny, coach jag is gone now. wonder where this guy’s going next?
how about picking a school where the education matches what you want to do after football is done.
ha!
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