hey guys, you don't land every kid that is recruited, and not every kid that shows up to these camps is actually being actively recruited. Getting a close look at the players you want to recruit, is a big part of these things, but it's way more than that.
It's establishing UConn as a destination location for the best high school football players around, and it gets established one step at a time. One of those first steps is establishing UConn as a destination place that high school coaches and programs want send their kids for camps in the offseason for competition.
There are multiple football camps set up, from little kids up through high schools, from individual oriented to team oriented. Every single kid that fits the recruiting profile of a student ahtlete we're going to look for, will have an ideal fit into one of those camps somehow.
A bunch of kids from say Don Bosco, or East Christian, aren't really going to get much out of camp designed for individual position workouts, or going to a 7-7 camp that's populated by well, programs not as strong.... but if you can get say - a 7-7 team from two schools like that to show up on the same field and compete against each other regularly? If you can get 6, 12, 24 high school programs?
Get it?
Steps are being taken now, with the facilities we've got and the opportunity to do things with recruiting, that should have started 5 years ago, and we'd be into a second recruiting cycle of it by now. But it's got to start somewhere, and the athletic department and football program is learning from one of the best at it now.
