Few questions, more for my own enlightenment than any other reason.
With NIL, isn't recruiting just offering the guy you want more money than other teams? Or is it a combination, where you sell them that your school is fine, and you offer more money than the other schools he thinks are fine? Anyone know how that really works. How important is persuasion verses just cold cash?
And depending on the answer to the above question, is the head coaching job now more about evaluation than the old days when it was about persuasion. Or what is relative importance of both? In the old days (pre NIL) you just talked as many top recruits as possible into signing up. Now, just like a pro team, since everyone is a free agent you have to figure out who to spend your money on.
Does this also make X and O coaching more important verses recruiting? Does that give an edge to NFL guys?