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Post by Pinnum on Mar 26, 2015 13:05:22 GMT -5
I knew I would hear that... Bonas is a place to experience. It is not a place you can explain in a pamphlet or even in a home visit. Thus it is hard to convey to a recruit when every other program is also saying how they are unique and different. Bingo ! Bonas is special. No comparison between the way Bonnies wax poetic about their alma mater and the way 95% of our co-workers talk about their alma mater in the workplace - if they ever do talk about their alma mater. Not only do most people not have the same 'attachment' to their schools that we have for Bonas, they don't even 'get' what it is we are talking about. The challenge is how to communicate that 'feeling' during the recruiting process in a way that resonates and really means something to a kid, amidst all of the 'recruiting noise'. For some kids it won't be meaningful compared to say 'better' facilities, urban location, or some other tangible factor at another school. That is assuming basketball players have the same experience as the general population at a given school. I can tell you the experiences between the two groups are drastically different at many schools. Though smaller schools like a Davidson, Wofford, Presbyterian, and to a certain extent Tulsa will integrate to the general student population and share some similar experiences. A basketball player's recruitment--for the most part, though there are anomalies like Nicholson--is basketball centric. The academic centric basketball recruits, by and large, are looking to the Ivy or Patriot league type schools. When it comes to basketball, there are many schools like Bonas. But I know people will deny this. Even places like VCU, Illinois State, St. Marys, and Baylor will all claim there are no other schools like them and that they are special.
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Post by tastylicks on Mar 26, 2015 13:20:42 GMT -5
Bingo ! Bonas is special. No comparison between the way Bonnies wax poetic about their alma mater and the way 95% of our co-workers talk about their alma mater in the workplace - if they ever do talk about their alma mater. Not only do most people not have the same 'attachment' to their schools that we have for Bonas, they don't even 'get' what it is we are talking about. The challenge is how to communicate that 'feeling' during the recruiting process in a way that resonates and really means something to a kid, amidst all of the 'recruiting noise'. For some kids it won't be meaningful compared to say 'better' facilities, urban location, or some other tangible factor at another school. That is assuming basketball players have the same experience as the general population at a given school. I can tell you the experiences between the two groups are drastically different at many schools. Though smaller schools like a Davidson, Wofford, Presbyterian, and to a certain extent Tulsa will integrate to the general student population and share some similar experiences. A basketball player's recruitment--for the most part, though there are anomalies like Nicholson--is basketball centric. The academic centric basketball recruits, by and large, are looking to the Ivy or Patriot league type schools. When it comes to basketball, there are many schools like Bonas. But I know people will deny this. Even places like VCU, Illinois State, St. Marys, and Baylor will all claim there are no other schools like them and that they are special. I think its safe to assume basketball players have an even better experience than their general student counterparts everywhere. I get the point you are trying very hard to make kinda, I guess. But not everywhere is for everyone, so who cares? Also - Bonas rules. Good for Illinois State though no one here cares about them
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Post by wgt on Mar 26, 2015 16:23:35 GMT -5
bartmitchell....Appreciate & enjoy your effective economy of words to put it in a nut shell.
You wrote...."The challenge is how to communicate that 'feeling' during the recruiting process in a way that resonates and really means something to a kid, amidst all of the 'recruiting noise'. For some kids it won't be meaningful compared to say 'better' facilities, urban location, or some other tangible factor at another school."
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