Lol! Clearly, some of you have never been involved in sales.
Can you imagine if a kid put us in his final three and wanted to come visit, but we say "nah, we already know you aren't a buyer"?
Worst tactic in the history of tactics.
Exactly this...
I have been in medical sales for 15 years now from carrying a bag to a national accounts exec for one of the largest companies in the world. If one of my reps said, “I am not going to go after “X” hospital system in which we know we can provide clinically equivalent solutions as well as be a great economic partner because they might say ‘no’ boss!” I am finding someone different for that role.
I agree with some that we need to manage our time and resources as a staff, but Whitman hired BU (and Lovie) to turn the program around and change the culture to one of a mindset that what we have to offer is the equivalent to the top programs in the country (less the Blue Bloods). If Underwood was throwing offers out to 2* and 3* kids left and right and spending our OV’s on these kids as our FIRST options I would be highly skeptical of his rebuild plan.
If we land someone the likes of Q, OT or Timme it will be interesting to see how some of you back out of your argument of, “why did we have him for an OV as 24/7 and all of the “sources” said he was a “xxx” lean and we only have a 10% chance”.
I get the win now or else mindset of college athletics we live in, but contrary to what we think we know I am sure the staff has a recruitment board and a strategy they are putting 100% into executing on. Give the guys a chance. We played hard last year but we were not a representation of the system BU has had great success with at his previous stops.