“Recruiting has a certain art form to it. I think you have to in my opinion recruit guys that you can win with that you have a chance to get. If you recruit guys you can’t win with, then that doesn’t make any sense. And if you recruit guys that you have no chance of getting, then that doesn’t make any sense. So if you answer the question, ‘OK, Percy Allen. Can we win with Percy Allen? Yes. Do we have a chance to get him? Yes. Then you only have to answer one more question and that’s is he going to screw up our program? If the answer to that is no, then you’re off in running.
I believe in simplifying it. If you simplify things, then you’re able to target more accurately and the process works a lot easier. If you recruit guys you can’t win with or guys you can’t get, then you end up wasting too much time. Or if you recruit guys that screw up the program, you end up wasting too much time.”
