Recruiting, Part 3

It is officially recruiting crunch time. As high school seasons come to an end in the Class A and AA state tournaments, student-athletes typically turn their attention to selecting a college. While getting pursued heavily by schools their entire senior year, most choose to put the recruiting process to the side during the season. They talk to coaches, make campus visits, etc, but very rarely does a student-athlete make a firm decision in January or February.

As I posted a few weeks back, it seems like most of IWU's key recruits in recent years have commited from about March 30 to April 30. That's the same window in which I think Ron Rose and staff will start getting firm commitments from the young men they've been working so hard on. So here on March 6, you can see why I call it "crunch time."

Tonight is another evening where the entire staff will be on the road watching different games, speaking to the parents before the game, trying to catch to student-athlete after the game, etc.. It is amazing to me how tough a job recruiting is -- in terms of effort needed in the process, Division III is absolutely no different than Division I. In fact, some elements of Division III recruiting actually make it tougher...probably a topic for another blog entry.

Still a long way to go, but things are going to starting happening soon.

PS I'll have plenty of information on each student-athlete that commits to IWU as each becomes official.