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Wisconsin Whitewater head coach Lance Leipold new head coach at Buffalo

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DoubleE:
http://footballscoop.com/news/lance-leipold-will-next-head-coach-buffalo/

ValleyTalk:
Can you say risky? Buffalo is rolling the dice in a big way...

D3 to FBS. Wow.

paladin:
Risky ? Try plain stupidity.  Buffalo will be a laughing stock. Watch the program over the coming years. Even in the MAC, they will struggle to win.

edpuskas:

--- Quote from: paladin on November 30, 2014, 10:01:38 PM ---Risky ? Try plain stupidity.  Buffalo will be a laughing stock. Watch the program over the coming years. Even in the MAC, they will struggle to win.

--- End quote ---
Yes, it's a long way from D-III to FBS and maybe Lance Leipold makes it and maybe he doesn't.

But not knowing how to recruit? I'd say that will be pretty far down on the list of reasons if he flames out there. Recruiting is about hitting the road, selling your program in high schools and in parents' living rooms and getting people to buy into what you're selling. It's about having personality and building relationships. Some people are good at it. Others struggle with it. Nobody knows if Leipold can or can't do it. Buffalo is betting he can.

Jim Tressel did it extremely well at YSU and Ohio State. And yet, there were more than a few people who said the same thing about OSU after he was hired there that you just said about Buffalo.

paladin:
ED, ask around. Big difference in recruiting at the D-III level  and recruiting at D-I. D-III is phone calls and letters/post cards as D-III doesn't have the budget to recruit as D-Is do.  The AAU trail and campus ( organized) visits make up a lot of D-I activity, entertaining and wowing the athletes. D-III sends them off to hang around the players  lives. LOts of $$$$$$$$$$$ and attention at D-Is.  Night & day. Interests and  interaction    with parents also key.  Needless to say, if it was easy, many a successful D-III coach would be promoted to D-I. Rarely happens. And for good reasons.

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