A history of recruiting; how coaches have stayed a step ahead - Andy Staples - SI.com

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 A history of recruiting; how coaches have stayed a step ahead    - Andy Staples  - SI.com
Oregon wooed players like Kyle Williams by producing personalized comic books and fake SI covers. [link]

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Morning Oatmeal: It's beginning to look a lot like football...
Published 6/24/2008 by jtlight at Addicted To Quack: Front Page Posts
... In recruiting news, there have been two interesting articles by SI.  One was on the innovations in recruiting by the Duck coaching staff.  In this case, they talk about the comic books created that helped bring in J-Stew and were a big hit with the players.  Unfortunately, this has since been banned by the NCAA (boy, are they useful or what), but SI has the ...

Unverified Voracity, Delivered From Perdition By The Coke Fairy
Published 6/25/2008 by Brian (noreply@blogger.com) at mgoblog
... Worst. Comic. Ever. Andy Staples has an entertaining piece on the constant race to stay one step ahead of the NCAA's recruiting regulations. The real meat, though, is an honest-to-god recruiting tool used by Oregon to land Jonathan Stewart, who you may remember from such runs as "Aaargh," "Aaaargh not again," "I want to die," and "How many points do they have now?" It's a comic book. The worst comic book ever made. This is perhaps my ...

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