Player Hand-offs

Recruiting is an interestingly complex part of football that isn’t getting any easier on coaches at either the high school or college levels. It was never easy for college coaches to recruit players, traveling the country relying on tips and grainy videos and news accounts to try and form a college football roster. While the Internet has made it easier to find out information about players, an explosion of ranking lists and fan Web sites has also made it easier than ever for fans to form their own assessments about incoming recruits. That the information may not always be reliable doesn’t play to anyone’s favor, but the end result is the recruiting process is under more of a spotlight than ever before. There’s also an array of companies that will package data about a prospect and deliver it to colleges. In some cases, the college program pays for the service while, in others,