SI Story about College Basketball Recruiting

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It covers Oregon State (and top 100 prospect) Roberto Nelson and talks about how much mail teams send to recruits.

The article ends with this gem:

During the summer before his senior year of high school, Nelson met Oregon State coach Craig Robinson, better known as President Barack Obama's brother-in-law. Robinson called Nelson four times last fall and went to Santa Barbara to visit him in September. In November, Nelson spurned UCLA and Ohio State and signed a letter of intent to play for the Beavers.

How many pieces of recruiting mail did Robinson and Oregon State send Nelson?

Zero.

 

[The Sebastian Express]

I agree that mail is probably on the way out for recruiting in this age. It's all about emails, phone calls, facebook, myspace, video packages, etc.