What attracts high school football players to certain colleges? - kingbrandon56's Blog

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What attracts high school football players to certain colleges?

Posted on May 27, 2010 at 07:49 PM.

I came up with this question after seeing Barry Alvarez talk about getting inducted into the college football hall of fame. He talked about how he built the wisconsin program up from a dormant state. I live in Minneapolis, MN and the university of Minnesota is the state school here but our football and basketball programs haven't been great here for a while. This made me think why kids rather go to wisconsin or iowa over minnesota when the twin cities have so much more to offer than the cities wisconsin and iowa are located in. The twin cities are the 15th ranked tv market, we teams in all four major sports, and lots of bars and clubs. I would think they could attract players here a whole lot easier than wisconsin or iowa. Minnesota even has a brand new stadium thats really nice.
Hiring Tim Brewster (Tight ends coach) was a mistake because they had charlie strong (florida's D-coordinator & 2 National Championships) in the running and chose Brewster instead.

Last year records:
Iowa - 11-2
Wisconsin -10-3
Minnesota - 6-7

Do you guys know why this is happening or have a clue on how this could be fixed?

Comments

# 1 aimiami @ May 27

the hot girls...
and i think a big thing is which school is best for there family and what can gice them the best chance to make the pros

# 2 videlsports @ May 27

Yeah Girls, and Education play alot into your recruiting. They want to know if your school turns out pro athlete's and sometimes they are just tired of where they live. Example: I'm from Pa we had a slim chance at Terrell Pryor @ penn st, but he lived in Pa All his life, he would not give Penn ST a visit until HIS DAD ASKED

# 3 deaduck @ May 27

Recruiting is such a bizarre thing to me.

You hear about kids choicing a school for the girls/party's on campus ...

Or the beaches/weather.

I choose a school based on the academic reputation in the field of study I was interested in.

# 4 DubTrey1 @ May 28

I'm guessing girls and money - and not in that order.

I suppose at some point in the thought process is also a few thoughts that the school could also elevate them to the next level as well....