Back to the OP, why don't you just contact some of your coaching buddies and put them on to this guy?
Frankly, I am sick of helping people who don't stand on the table for me. Last year, multiple times, two younger full-time coaches called me early in the season to 1) See if I could send him any of the fake field goals I had used against them the year prior 2) Go over a punt scheme that I had taught them a year earlier. They were preparing to play an FCS, and I told one of them he was crazy to want to run a fake against an FCS. Save that shit for a team you need help beating, not an FCS you should easily beat.
Another coach, a current FBS OC, used to ask me for help getting him a head coaching job. I earned him an interview for the Nevada job (two coaches ago) and he was the runner-up for it after the AD and president flew to meet him at a Dallas hotel. I got him an interview for the Eastern Michigan head coaching job. He's now an OC. You'd think after all of the favors he asked of me, he'd stand on a table and tell his new HC to hire me on his offensive staff. Nope. The OC was too scared to even go to bat for his best friend (a very experienced OL coach) to get on the staff, even though he had worked with him at two previous FBS schools. And that offense has been the worst in the country over the last three years.
An Indiana/Rutgers assistant called me to help him with a recruit whom he wanted and whom he knew I was pretty close to. He wanted me to put in a good word for him (the kid was committed to Georgia Tech) and try talking him into decommitting from Tech. You think guy ever stood on the table and went to bat for me? I don't.
The private school OL that had no offers that I gave to a coordinator at Penn State to immediately check out? He was offered by them two weeks later, right after Herb Hand talked to him. The kid had no offers at the time, and only Virginia and Maryland offered him before Penn State. He ended up going to Stanford. What did that do for me? That same coordinator was implicated for an NCAA violation when a kid he was recruiting (a highly rated recruit who ended up going to Michigan State) posted on Facebook that "Coach XXXX came to see me today, asked our coach to call me into the office, and told me that the only reason he was at the school was to see me." The only problem is that the recruit was a junior in high school, not a senior, so talking to him in that capacity is a pretty decent violation. I immediately had the Penn State coordinator's dad call his son so that he could have the recruit take down that post. Have they ever done anything to return the favor? I don't think either are bad guys, but I'm sick of basically being smarter, more creative, and more resourceful than these guys, helping them, and none of them standing on the table for me.
The industry is full of cowards that are too scared to speak up for the right thing and too worried about covering their ass.
At my last school, the coach in charge of punt block had his cards drawn up for the scout team's punt team for that practice. His guys (the punt block unit) were practicing against the exact look the upcoming opponent showed. The only problem was that he had all of the cards and schemes drawn up for a rugby, right-footed punter. The upcoming opponent was a rugby, left-footed punter. In other words, he was going to waste an entire practice of punt block with his guys running the scheme on the wrong side. Being new there, I told the DC to let his guy (the guy coaching punt block was a defensive coach) know about that error so he could switch it before practice. The DC didn't like that coach, so he said "**** him, let him hang himself." I knew that was wrong, so I told the other full-time defensive guys on staff. They had the same "Oh, shit" response, but neither of them wanted to say anything to him, because the more somebody else fvcks up, the safer their job is.
It was unbelievable. All of these guys who pretended to be friends with this coach and were on the same side of the ball didn't want to tell him about his huge error that was going to make him look really bad and hurt the team.
Practice comes along, and sure enough, they started doing it for the wrong side the punter would be kicking from. I was standing next to the DFO, an immature 28 year old who was getting paid $120,000. I told him that he may want to say something so they can flip it before the practice periods were over, but he wanted to see if the head coach would notice. Nope. He didn't. Two days later, when they practiced punt block again, he realized he had it entirely wrong in the first practice, but that ended up being a huge waste of time.
And you want me to put this kid on one of those type of coaches? No thanks.
Rifle.....outside of the top prospects, isn’t QB recruiting pretty much a crap shoot?
Particularly at our level, doesn’t it come down to QB development?
In many cases, it probably is. If you take the time to invest into getting to know these kids, make sure they are at your camps, show up to their game(s) two hours early so you can see how he throws in warmups, how he prepares, don't spend 20 minutes going over film on an visit but spend two hours, etc., you can get a very good indication of who you should go with.
Not enough coaches are willing to do that. They go with the kid they think they can land. They're too scared for their HC to see them invest a ton of time recruiting a kid only to see him shun them the night before signing day. It's easier to take the safe route, go with the kid you know you're going to get, and hope he turns into something.
