NASHVILLE – The biggest ballroom in this downtown Nashville hotel is overflowing — standing-room-only — and College Football Hall-of-Famer Mack Brown is holding court.
Brown — the last coach to win a national championship at Texas and North Carolina's winningest coach — is explaining why fifth place beats second.
On the talent-acquisition trail, that is.
At this moment, he's the champagne cork to the seventh annual Personnel and Recruiting Symposium — a 48-hour event spanning parts of three days. For 1,600 staffers from 160 schools it's the networking equivalent of the NCAA transfer portal they navigate and the social equivalent of the record-label parties that dot this city during Country Music's awards season.
"I've been doing this 50 years; they've been doing it (the recruiting process) six months," Brown tells the crowd. "And so many times, people in this room or ******* istant coaches didn't want to ask hard questions because you are afraid you'll get the wrong answer. I wanted to get an answer. I'd a lot rather be fifth than second. If you are second, you lose the next two, so I either wanted to get him or get out.
#recruiting #room #coach
Brown — the last coach to win a national championship at Texas and North Carolina's winningest coach — is explaining why fifth place beats second.
On the talent-acquisition trail, that is.
At this moment, he's the champagne cork to the seventh annual Personnel and Recruiting Symposium — a 48-hour event spanning parts of three days. For 1,600 staffers from 160 schools it's the networking equivalent of the NCAA transfer portal they navigate and the social equivalent of the record-label parties that dot this city during Country Music's awards season.
"I've been doing this 50 years; they've been doing it (the recruiting process) six months," Brown tells the crowd. "And so many times, people in this room or ******* istant coaches didn't want to ask hard questions because you are afraid you'll get the wrong answer. I wanted to get an answer. I'd a lot rather be fifth than second. If you are second, you lose the next two, so I either wanted to get him or get out.
#recruiting #room #coach
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