Do message boards identify recruiting drama or create it? I'd love to know the "real" recruiting story behind all of these kids that us interweb message board recruiting gurus get worked up over. By us, I don't mean me, I just said it that way to avoid some venom. 
I say it's like the nightly news has become. We create, not report, the drama right here on SPS and other boards. If coaches looked on(maybe they do) they'd look like I look at my teenage son sometimes and just smile because he sometimes "know what I'm talking about, Dad!" when I just happen to actually know that he is dead wrong.
I say that even when we actually "report" on recruiting stuff and purport to know what a kid is thinking, it's almost always suspect. Anybody who thinks they know what young men of this age are thinking is fooling themselves. I have one. They vacillate between not thinking at all and thinking about doing dumb stuff, and my kids are actually pretty level headed and "good kids". I can't imagine what to expect from some of these kids that don't even have a semi-sane home life, but it isn't rational, sane, I can discuss it over dinner with the folks kind of decision making.
That being said, I do recognize the irony in complaining about all of the "we MUST get this kid" kind of posts with yet another recruiting post...
I say it's like the nightly news has become. We create, not report, the drama right here on SPS and other boards. If coaches looked on(maybe they do) they'd look like I look at my teenage son sometimes and just smile because he sometimes "know what I'm talking about, Dad!" when I just happen to actually know that he is dead wrong.
I say that even when we actually "report" on recruiting stuff and purport to know what a kid is thinking, it's almost always suspect. Anybody who thinks they know what young men of this age are thinking is fooling themselves. I have one. They vacillate between not thinking at all and thinking about doing dumb stuff, and my kids are actually pretty level headed and "good kids". I can't imagine what to expect from some of these kids that don't even have a semi-sane home life, but it isn't rational, sane, I can discuss it over dinner with the folks kind of decision making.
That being said, I do recognize the irony in complaining about all of the "we MUST get this kid" kind of posts with yet another recruiting post...
