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One of DKR's greatest recruiting failures (it impacted our recruiting for at least a decade) was our lack of "matching", which Barry mastered with the help of Scott Hill. I might be wrong, but I thought part of her duties was "matching" hosts & hostesses with the recruits.
I remember dictating to Fred who a LBs host would be. Both were Church of Christ, very religious, and the kid's girlfriend was already a student at UT. Everything went really well until I was sitting in the family's home and one our BMDs called the kid to tell him to give serious consideration to the fact that we were going to fire Fred so he had no idea who his coach would be. Started three years at Baylor and was All Conference.
The kid DKR lost was devoutly religious, had lost his dad, but Texas was his dream school. His player host took him to the Villa Capri - his bathtub was bull of beer and ice, then there were the chicks just dropping by. Years later he would tell me that he was in Austin less than half an hour when he wanted to go home. He committed to OU before he got home.
KNOW EVERYTHING YOU CAN ABOUT THE TARGET BEFORE FIRING THE FIRST SHOT!