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Wisconsin Whitewater head coach Lance Leipold new head coach at Buffalo

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edpuskas:

--- Quote from: paladin on November 30, 2014, 10:34:25 PM ---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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I don't doubt that the way it's done is different. I'm just not ready to say the guy automatically can't do it. Buffalo may well regret the decision. We'll see.

I think, in general, too much is made of the supposed gap between coaching levels. I know a guy who was a D-III assistant, then a coordinator at the same level. Then a position coach in what is now FBS. I look up a few years later and he's an NFL coordinator, and a couple years later, a head coach in the league.

If you can coach, you can coach. If you can recruit, you can recruit. If you can do both, you'll be successful.

ysufan0505:
It's Buffalo so good luck to him.

DavedS:
Ditto!--he will definitely need it--stranger things have happened though,I'm still amazed @ ISUb's turnaround.

Kandrase:
I disagree on the skepticism of his ability to succeed at the next level.

Actually his experience recruiting at the non-scholarship level could give LL a pretty big advantage.

Think about it, for his entire recruiting career so far has had to recruit guys based solely on selling the idea that his program will be successful and that the player will fit into his system etc.

D3 coaches like Liepold have had to learn to sift through mediocrity and find guys who were special that nobody at higher levels noticed, having that kind of skill and having to rely only on your sales pitch and the value of your program can be nothing but good for a coaches ability to recruit. Adding money to that mix just gives a great recruiter another tool to sweeten the pot IMHO.

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