The Truth About Recruiting

There is no doubting Ed Orgeron\'s passion for recruiting.. Just ask his former boss, Pete Carroll. But, unfortunately for Orgeron, his recruiting abilities didn\'t translate into victories during his three-year tenure at Ole Miss. He was fired Nov. 25, just a few months after Bruce Feldman\'s book \"Meat Market\" was published and shortly after this article was written. Plenty can still be learned from Orgeron\'s relentless recruiting efforts, which Feldman reveals in \"Meat Market.\" For example, how opening up your program can help in recruiting. When it comes to recruiting, Ed Orgeron never runs out of gas. Well, almost never. It doesn\'t matter if he\'s selling USC, Ole Miss or Nicholls State; he\'s always been a tireless, hyper pre-dawn-to-post-dusk recruiter. In 1989, Orgeron was a 28-year-old assistant at Miami. Stuffed inside his little blue Chevy, he was a proud South Florida