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<blockquote data-quote="Second and Chalmers" data-source="post: 1203501" data-attributes="member: 527609"><p>The recruitment of a class is a huge schlep of just grunt work. Watching and evaluating game tape, managing a database of players, sending out mail, coordinating travel schedules, assuring NCAA compliance, dealing with grades and transcripts and admissions and all that, the tick-tock and mechanics of campus visits, etc, etc.</p><p></p><p>The more of that stuff you can take off of your coaching staff's plate, the better. Their time is incredibly precious.</p><p></p><p>The "recruiting coordinator" title dates back to a time when that stuff was mostly the responsibility of the lower-level coaches on the staff itself. Those days are long gone.</p><p></p><p>Alabama has 18 full-time football staff in non-coaching roles. 18! Almost double as many as they have coaches. A lot of experienced coaches around the country have looked at that and said "I don't know how I would be able to manage that many people, I don't know what I'd have them all do" but they are increasingly figuring it out and this is becoming a new arms race in college football. And these folks do a lot of scouting of opponents and breakdown of their own film in addition to recruiting stuff, btw.</p><p></p><p>Whitman's willingness to talk about this and make it a priority, plus McGee's college head coaching experience and reputation as an ace recruiter at the Power Five level, plus Lovie's experience managing the much larger staffs that NFL teams have make me optimistic that we will be able to make big, big upgrades from where we've been in this department. Big picture personnel management was a particular weakness of Beckman's, and he didn't have great resources in the first place.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Second and Chalmers, post: 1203501, member: 527609"] The recruitment of a class is a huge schlep of just grunt work. Watching and evaluating game tape, managing a database of players, sending out mail, coordinating travel schedules, assuring NCAA compliance, dealing with grades and transcripts and admissions and all that, the tick-tock and mechanics of campus visits, etc, etc. The more of that stuff you can take off of your coaching staff's plate, the better. Their time is incredibly precious. The "recruiting coordinator" title dates back to a time when that stuff was mostly the responsibility of the lower-level coaches on the staff itself. Those days are long gone. Alabama has 18 full-time football staff in non-coaching roles. 18! Almost double as many as they have coaches. A lot of experienced coaches around the country have looked at that and said "I don't know how I would be able to manage that many people, I don't know what I'd have them all do" but they are increasingly figuring it out and this is becoming a new arms race in college football. And these folks do a lot of scouting of opponents and breakdown of their own film in addition to recruiting stuff, btw. Whitman's willingness to talk about this and make it a priority, plus McGee's college head coaching experience and reputation as an ace recruiter at the Power Five level, plus Lovie's experience managing the much larger staffs that NFL teams have make me optimistic that we will be able to make big, big upgrades from where we've been in this department. Big picture personnel management was a particular weakness of Beckman's, and he didn't have great resources in the first place. [/QUOTE]
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