College football recruiting stories ... you never let me down!

[Batman]

I tried to do an "Interesting Recruiting Tales" story. I was thinking: Did a coach ever get scared on a recruiting visit to a ghetto area? Did any of them get robbed, mugged, lost, charged by a bull or alligator, drive into a snowbank?
I couldn't get anybody to talk about it. I was willing to take it all anonymously, don't tell me who or where, just what happened.
Just one funny comment about a Wyoming basketball recruit from SoCal. At the end of his visit, they took him back to the airport and it was locked. Airports aren't locked. Actually, the wind was so strong they couldn't open the door. When they finally did, they went to the boarding area and out the window they saw a plane coming in that was weaving back and forth in the wind. The recruit looked at the coach and asked if they could go to the train station instead.

Weird. Are coaches that afraid of speaking out of turn? Or could any little thing be considered an NCAA violation?
I had a player tell me once about the junior college coach who recruited him. They were supposed to do a home visit, but the player had to work late at Kroger. So the coach went there instead, and talked to the kid while they wrangled carts together in the parking lot (in the rain, no less). The player ended up signing with them, and the coach is now the recruiting coordinator at a DI program.

 

[Woody Long]

"That reminds me, I was coaching in Omaha in 1948 and Eddie Shore sends me this guy who's a terrible masturbator. Couldn't control himself. He would get deliberate penalities so he could get all by himself in the penalty box, and damned if he wouldn't, you know..."

LOL

Awww, Jesus Joe!