"THINK BIG ! HIRE A LOCAL HIGH SCHOOL COACH TODAY!"
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Here's that scenerio in action......
As the new (former HS) coach enters a prospects home in Dallas.....
"Hi, I'm Pierre Gaudin, shah, I'm dat track coach at dat UL-Lafayette down dare in dat Lafayette, Louisiana town. We're at LA 93 and 182. I want you to come down and run for me, OK?? I got 12.8 scholarships, but I have to hold back half of them out to pay travel, recruiting, equipment, uniform and home meet expenses jus' so my school can count me as an NCAA sport. Dat keeps 'dem in dat runnin' for dat Div I national championship in football and basketball year-in and year-out.
Oh, I forgot, instead of you going to Texas, Baylor or Arkansas, where you will fly to top meets, win championships and have 10 pair of shoes each year, come on down and I'll get you one pair from Academy and I'll get you a spot in dat "dynamic" Sun Belt track Championship. And you can sleep in the same bed wid anudder guy when we go four to a room on dat road.
Our facility has one bathroom, when it works, and a huge stadium having 250 good track seats that our president thought looked good on dat paper when he approved it. Oh, and don't worry about having one locker room and those rumors about old Title 9 violations. Our guys only "use" to dress there and when they finished the gals went in and locked dem doors for 10 minutes, got dressed and then unlocked the doors and went to workouts.
It's a great place. So come on down, run national times that you are capable of, and stay home with the rest of us from dem big meets and keep these closet UL track fans off my A $ $. Running at those big places is no fun anyway; you COULD get air-sick 10 times a year from all that flying around the country. There's no place like the UL-Lafayette Soccer Complex ...... uhhhhhh sometimes track complex. You won't fly anywhere from there cause we can't afford it.
Now dats one heck of a recruiting magnet for ANYONE!