Writing about the transfer portal, Matt Zemek urges college football coaches to take their own advice and control what they can control:
We all understand that tampering in the transfer portal is hard to police. How can one know when a player is recruiting an opponent without being prompted by his head coach? That’s hard to pr…
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He quotes Cincinnati head coach Luke Fickell,
"What we've always believed, and sometimes lose sight of, is that you have to continually build your relationship with a kid,” he said. “I’ve always done a great job of that with the kids that are playing, but I’ve done a bad job in all my days of coaching, I think, of kids who might not be the seven to eight [top] linebackers. … You’ve got those redshirted kids and guys on the scout team and you said, ‘Hey, that’s a part of life. I’ll see you in six months when the season ends.’ And it’s been a reminder to us that, for goodness’ sakes, we weren’t doing it right 15-20 years ago spending enough time to make sure we’re building that relationship.”