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Recruiting trail dos and don'ts

By Ivan Maisel
ESPN.com

Friday, January 30, 2009

You're a 25-year-old graduate assistant who's just gotten your first full-time college coaching gig. You're given a car, an expense account, some snappy golf shirts with the team logo and a territory to recruit. The head coach sends you out the door and into the high school world and wishes you good luck. Oh, and one more thing: Don't come back without players who will win a conference championship. What do you do? With the arrival of signing day looming, we presented that scenario to several ...

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