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Posted on 6/11/13 at 3:39 pm to DCRebel
Posted on 6/11/13 at 3:39 pm to DCRebel
quote:thank you, thats the book. Your comment is just more detailed than mine. I just wanted to make that remark that when reading the book they talked about how it definitely was a factor in getting people to visit, and it was a question by African American parents... it also said that once they got them to visit, they would show them the "beauty" of the ole miss campus
Meat Market by Bruce Feldman, and he's right to an extent. Once players actually visit campus, that stigma largely disappears. It's getting them to visit that's the hard part (especially when they have recruiters for opposing SEC schools bullshitting them about how WAYCESS Ole Miss is).
Posted on 6/11/13 at 5:09 pm to GeauxPack81
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thank you, thats the book. Your comment is just more detailed than mine. I just wanted to make that remark that when reading the book they talked about how it definitely was a factor in getting people to visit, and it was a question by African American parents... it also said that once they got them to visit, they would show them the "beauty" of the ole miss campus
Imagine if all you had heard from other coaches and recruiters was that Ole Miss was racist, and then when you get there you're like "oh, shite, it's not any worse than any other SEC school." That's pretty much ever significant recruit we've had to fight for. As someone mentioned earlier, they ALWAYS say stuff like "it wasn't at all what I was expecting" when they're interviewed. It makes you wonder what exactly it was that they were expecting and why they were expecting it.
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