Maybe a good question for Russ and/or people closer to these situations? I mean i know recruits get hosted by a current player (s) during the official visits. But besides that; do current players take an active role in helping the coaching staff land any of these kids? Or do the kids feel like recruits need to make up their own minds are stay out of most of it besides being present on the visit? I definitely feel like a kid like Mulcahy will maybe take a more active role just based on reading articles and hearing him speak about why he chose Rutgers, etc. Do coaches ask their players to tweet at recruits or text them about playing together? Are there rules about what they can and cannot do like with the coaches or is it like the Wild West where anything goes?
Current players influence on recruits?
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Currently players definitely attempt to help if they know, or have a relationship with, kids the team is recruiting. However, what tends to help even more is when recruits are in group chats with each other and discuss playing together and are high on the same school.
How often do high profile teammates actually stay together though? Like Antoine and Lewis from Ranney this year seemed to not be interested at all. And I can't think of many Big Ten teams that have old HS/AAU teammates. (Illinois specifically had to choose, essentially, between Ayo Dosunmu and Talen Horton-Tucker)
I never said anything about teammates.
By the time these kids are 12 months away from graduating high school they've developed relationships with other kids they have met at various camps or competed against in high school or on the circuit.
Sometimes that makes them want to be on the same team.
IIRC the Ayo Dosunmu and Talen Horton-Tucker situation was a Mac Irvin Fire vs Meanstreets thing. I could be wrong though