CU's Hawkins looks for recruiting edge

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CU's Hawkins looks for recruiting edge

Interesting story by Kyle Ringo in the Boulder Daily Camera about Dan Hawkins' recruiting approach at Colorado.

 

The article pointed out that Hawkins has more than doubled the amount of money the program puts into recruiting from what Gary Barnett did in his final season.

 

Accroding to the article: "The program spent $241,554.25 on recruiting in the 2004-05 fiscal year, the last full cycle in which Gary Barnett was coach.

 

Hawkins spent $551,099.09 on recruiting during the 2006-07 fiscal year, according to budget figures obtained through open records requests."

 

Among Hawkins' more interesting recruiting methods: [actually never used according to original article]

 

Instead of sending envelopes with the school logo to prospects who receive dozens of similar pieces of mail each week, CU sent small, black cardboard boxes about Ð the size of a standard pizza box, writes Ringo.

 

Intrigued recruits opened the box to find it filled with a pile of hundreds of business cards designed to resemble $100 and $500 bills. A message inside the box told recruits the money totaled $333,000, equal to the value of an education at CU.

 

“He always wants to be the first to do something,” Robert Tucker, director of football operations at CU, told the Daily Camera. “If we hear about someone who did something before we did, he’s upset about it. He’ll slap the table and be like, ‘Man, they got us on this one.’ He always wants to be on the cutting edge of recruiting.”

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CU's Hawkins looks for recruiting edge

Interesting story by Kyle Ringo in the Boulder Daily Camera about Dan Hawkins' recruiting approach at Colorado.

 

The article pointed out that Hawkins has more than doubled the amount of money the program puts into recruiting from what Gary Barnett did in his final season.

 

Accroding to the article: "The program spent $241,554.25 on recruiting in the 2004-05 fiscal year, the last full cycle in which Gary Barnett was coach.

 

Hawkins spent $551,099.09 on recruiting during the 2006-07 fiscal year, according to budget figures obtained through open records requests."

 

Among Hawkins' more interesting recruiting methods: [actually never used according to original article]

 

Instead of sending envelopes with the school logo to prospects who receive dozens of similar pieces of mail each week, CU sent small, black cardboard boxes about Ð the size of a standard pizza box, writes Ringo.

 

Intrigued recruits opened the box to find it filled with a pile of hundreds of business cards designed to resemble $100 and $500 bills. A message inside the box told recruits the money totaled $333,000, equal to the value of an education at CU.

 

“He always wants to be the first to do something,” Robert Tucker, director of football operations at CU, told the Daily Camera. “If we hear about someone who did something before we did, he’s upset about it. He’ll slap the table and be like, ‘Man, they got us on this one.’ He always wants to be on the cutting edge of recruiting.”

 

It's to bad that Texas and USC actualy send the money instead of fake 100 or 500 dollar bills or this might have been a good idea