My buddies mocked me during the Pitt Butler game Topic

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i was at a wedding reception with my girlfriend on the first night of recruiting one season. she has an iphone and i dont so i had to steal her phone for a bit. it was a d3 team so i had to make a ton of dropdown phone calls, which are not exactly quick and easy on an iphone. as a bonus the service was crappy so i ended up leaving the building and walking down the street in a light rain to make the moves. wasn't easy to explain to my gf's family why, half-drunk, i had to borrow her phone for a half hour outside in the rain.

before my girlfriend got an iphone my younger sister was the go-to phone call where i would walk her through every move. i'd call her from a movie theater before the movie started or sometime like that:

"go to whatifsports.com...yeah its already signed in as me. click on georgetown...about 4 inches down the page...ok click on the recruiting tab...summary...for the players on that list, who has "considering us"?...its to the right of their name...uh-huh...ok who has considering us among others...ok click on joseph johnson....on the left of his page it says who he's considering. who is he considering besides georgetown?......uh-huh...ok click on that team...now click on their recruiting tab...yes it looks different than the other one..how many players are listed there...ok go back to the roster how many players are on the roster...what is their prestige grade...its at the top under the team name...go back to the recruiting tab, are any of those players considering multiple schools...you click on the player name...yeah its right there...uh-huh...ok click on the coach's ID near the prestige grade...ok on that page click on his name on the top-left...click on the hd icon...how many career wins does he have? it's on the left...win percentage?...how many national championships?...none? good. ok go back to joseph johnson's page...he's the first window you opened...no you probably closed it...alright click on the recruit tab...yup...do 2 home visits and hit submit...they're on the right...ok do that 4 more times...yeah 2 and submit 4 times...i know that adds up to 8 just do it 2 at a time...ok refresh the recruiting tab how much money does it say next to his name...no i mean the recruiting tab that lists all the players that might be considering us or undecided etcetera...how much? are you serious?...why didn't you tell me he's 460 miles away?...ok you're right, my bad. click on his name again..."

iphones are useful, to say the least.
3/22/2011 11:15 AM (edited)
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At my niece's wedding reception last year, I was in the bathroom so long that my Mom send my Dad in to check on me.  Embarrassing...55 years old and hearing my Dad say, "Allen?? Are you in here?"
3/22/2011 12:54 PM
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These stories made my day.  Unfortunately I don't have any recruiting stories that can compete, but I love the dedication!
3/22/2011 1:04 PM
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Posted by jetwildcat on 3/22/2011 11:15:00 AM (view original):
i was at a wedding reception with my girlfriend on the first night of recruiting one season. she has an iphone and i dont so i had to steal her phone for a bit. it was a d3 team so i had to make a ton of dropdown phone calls, which are not exactly quick and easy on an iphone. as a bonus the service was crappy so i ended up leaving the building and walking down the street in a light rain to make the moves. wasn't easy to explain to my gf's family why, half-drunk, i had to borrow her phone for a half hour outside in the rain.

before my girlfriend got an iphone my younger sister was the go-to phone call where i would walk her through every move. i'd call her from a movie theater before the movie started or sometime like that:

"go to whatifsports.com...yeah its already signed in as me. click on georgetown...about 4 inches down the page...ok click on the recruiting tab...summary...for the players on that list, who has "considering us"?...its to the right of their name...uh-huh...ok who has considering us among others...ok click on joseph johnson....on the left of his page it says who he's considering. who is he considering besides georgetown?......uh-huh...ok click on that team...now click on their recruiting tab...yes it looks different than the other one..how many players are listed there...ok go back to the roster how many players are on the roster...what is their prestige grade...its at the top under the team name...go back to the recruiting tab, are any of those players considering multiple schools...you click on the player name...yeah its right there...uh-huh...ok click on the coach's ID near the prestige grade...ok on that page click on his name on the top-left...click on the hd icon...how many career wins does he have? it's on the left...win percentage?...how many national championships?...none? good. ok go back to joseph johnson's page...he's the first window you opened...no you probably closed it...alright click on the recruit tab...yup...do 2 home visits and hit submit...they're on the right...ok do that 4 more times...yeah 2 and submit 4 times...i know that adds up to 8 just do it 2 at a time...ok refresh the recruiting tab how much money does it say next to his name...no i mean the recruiting tab that lists all the players that might be considering us or undecided etcetera...how much? are you serious?...why didn't you tell me he's 460 miles away?...ok you're right, my bad. click on his name again..."

iphones are useful, to say the least.
Love the story about your sister!
3/22/2011 2:40 PM
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I feel like someone should be serving coffee and doughnuts in this thread.....Hello my name is DaveyMac and I'm an hdaholic...
3/22/2011 5:01 PM
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I can stop anytime
3/23/2011 12:10 AM
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I'm not addicted, I'm committed.
3/23/2011 12:18 AM
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Posted by alblack56 on 3/22/2011 12:54:00 PM (view original):
At my niece's wedding reception last year, I was in the bathroom so long that my Mom send my Dad in to check on me.  Embarrassing...55 years old and hearing my Dad say, "Allen?? Are you in here?"
lmfao!
3/23/2011 10:12 PM
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This is certainly a thread of the year nominee...utterly fantastic...jet...great story as well man, lol
3/23/2011 10:15 PM
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I love these stories!!!
I remember the reason I really joined HD was because my friends were all talking about it and were trash talking about who beat who and I was really interested. Then one day my friend calls up and was like hey can you do something for me, and im like yeah what for. He was like its recruiting time and I need you to recruit, and I said okay. Then about 5-10 minutes later after he talked me through it, I was really interested and decided to try it when jobs oppend up again! Now I am loving it! But unfortunately I dont have any funny stories...
3/24/2011 12:09 AM
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My wife is really into my involvement in HD. She does overnight recruiting for me because she gets up at 4:30am to get ready for work. She also helps me decide on players to go after during recruiting. So one day we're standing in the checkout line at Kroger's waiting our turn. We began talking about a recruiting battle and whether to stay in or go after another player. We were tossing around various skill levels and how many thousands of dollars we had already spent and how much cash we had left. We were so involved in our discussion that we didn't realize that it was our turn to unload our cart. The goth checkout girl is looking at us like we each have 3 heads. The bag boy is staring at us like we're superstars on the magazine rack, and the lady behind us is telling her teenage daughter that we don't look like we have nearly that much money. I thought for a second about trying to explain our conversation but the checkout girl with the ring in her lip and dark blue hair didn't look like she wanted to hear about it.
3/24/2011 12:45 AM
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it's not real money?
3/24/2011 5:01 AM
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Great story, weena!

I shared this story several months ago but, it fits the thread, and new coaches may not know it.

I was on an airplane. The attractive young woman next to me mentioned that she was from Portland, OR.  I blurted out, "Oh, I coach the Wiliamette basketball team!"

I had to follow up with:

"Oh, they're not real players"

 " I only coach them online."

"Really? It's  pronounced, Wil-AM-ette??  Not William-ETTE??"

She was NOT impressed. If there'd been an empty seat on the plane, I would've moved.

3/24/2011 10:07 AM (edited)
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Just consider yourself lucky that you were not wearing either your WIS polo shirt (does anyone buy those??) or the Wil AM Ette" tee shirt you ordered on line??

3/24/2011 10:32 AM
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Posted by fd343ny on 3/24/2011 10:32:00 AM (view original):

Just consider yourself lucky that you were not wearing either your WIS polo shirt (does anyone buy those??) or the Wil AM Ette" tee shirt you ordered on line??

I'm in a conference with a group of coaches, 4 of which live near my city. We got together 3-4 years ago.  Being too cheap to actually buy a 'Tranyslvania' shirt, I applied iron-on letters to a red T-shirt.  On the back were my Final Four appearances.

3/24/2011 10:37 AM
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