Word: recruitable
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...really is. They don't have time to grow up. They don't. It makes no sense to me." They do have time to back out, though, since their verbal pledges to attend a school are not official until, at the earliest, the fall of senior year, when a recruit signs a "National Letter of Intent" with a college. Both player and coach can break the bond before then--a move known as decommitting...
...rush to recruit then? First and foremost, it's the pressure on coaches to win because the rewards are rich: Billy Donovan, coach of the national-champion Florida Gators, signed a new six-year contract that will pay him about $3.5 million annually. Thad Matta, coach of runner-up Ohio State, who already has a commitment from a 10th-grader, has a $2.5 million yearly paycheck. "Look at the rising salaries, the firings, the arms race for facilities development," says Rick Boyages, an associate commissioner of the Mid-American Conference and a former college coach. "The competition and marketplace...
Boatright, a bright, personable kid with a supportive extended family worth rooting for, knows he's a marked man. Every point guard from Chicago to Peoria wants to knock the hotshot USC recruit off his perch. He's unfazed. "I like the pressure," says Boatright, noshing on a chocolate long john at Dunkin' Donuts before a Saturday-morning shootaround. "I feed off it. I hear all the negative stuff, I just add another workout. I'll make them feel stupid...
...Goldman Sachs has also built relationships with Indian universities and M.B.A. programs in an effort to nourish the Goldman culture in India from the ground up. The bank plans to hire most of its India staff locally within the next few years. Previously, the only way to recruit India's top students was by offering them the chance to go abroad. "Now they don't want to miss out on what's going on at home," Entwistle says, "and we can finally offer it to them...
...attempted to recruit Leach for a fellowship in the spring, but he ultimately chose to take the position at Princeton, according to Alexander I. Burns ’08, the editor of the Harvard Political Review and member of the IOP’s student advisory committee...