Big article in TheAthletic on SMU Recruiting
Posted: Thu Mar 31, 2022 9:55 am‘There was nobody here’: An inside look at how a first-time head coach built a recruiting staff from scratch
DALLAS — When Rhett Lashlee took over as SMU’s head coach on Nov. 29, he had plenty of Day 1 to-dos: meet with the current team, start hiring assistant coaches and settle into his new office.
Around 6 p.m. that day, he turned to recruiting. His first step involved calling each 2022 recruit who was committed to SMU at that time. One small problem, though.
“There was nobody here,” Lashlee said, referring to the coaching and recruiting staff. “There’s nobody to ask, ‘Can someone get me a list of commits?’ So I just said ‘OK, I’ll just Google it.’”
When former SMU coach Sonny Dykes left for the job at rival TCU, he took much of the on-field and recruiting staff with him. And though SMU football offices were a ghost town when Lashlee grabbed his cell phone, it was a slight embellishment: A few folks stayed with the team briefly to bridge the gap as did some assistants who weren’t joining Dykes at TCU.
for the full article:
https://theathletic.com/3217916/2022/03/31/there-was-nobody-here-an-inside-look-at-how-a-first-time-head-coach-built-a-recruiting-staff-from-scratch/?source=dailyemail&campaign=601983
DALLAS — When Rhett Lashlee took over as SMU’s head coach on Nov. 29, he had plenty of Day 1 to-dos: meet with the current team, start hiring assistant coaches and settle into his new office.
Around 6 p.m. that day, he turned to recruiting. His first step involved calling each 2022 recruit who was committed to SMU at that time. One small problem, though.
“There was nobody here,” Lashlee said, referring to the coaching and recruiting staff. “There’s nobody to ask, ‘Can someone get me a list of commits?’ So I just said ‘OK, I’ll just Google it.’”
When former SMU coach Sonny Dykes left for the job at rival TCU, he took much of the on-field and recruiting staff with him. And though SMU football offices were a ghost town when Lashlee grabbed his cell phone, it was a slight embellishment: A few folks stayed with the team briefly to bridge the gap as did some assistants who weren’t joining Dykes at TCU.
for the full article:
https://theathletic.com/3217916/2022/03/31/there-was-nobody-here-an-inside-look-at-how-a-first-time-head-coach-built-a-recruiting-staff-from-scratch/?source=dailyemail&campaign=601983