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The recruiting budget is much lower in WBB. Look at coaching salaries for instance.In Men’s basketball, we’re constantly vying for recruits against Xavier and other schools that we rarely if ever play. Basketball seems to be national recruiting.
Coach Gene Hill told me once, that the foreign players he recruited here and then at NC St., are flyers that you take. Good students who enjoy their future potential here, in a game they love. Coach Purcell ventured into Tenn., but mostly Ga.
When at Zelnak one day, I ran into a pre-med. recruit from Marietta, a computer engineering student from Atlanta-Fulton. Neither wound up here. LeLe Love started from a connection the staff had. We had to be fairly certain before going to Kansas, without Dorothy’s slippers for one recruit.