What is more effective? Topic

jjwarden
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Which combination of recruiting is most effective to bring the recruit in:

Campus visit, bunch of letters and phone calls (like 60)  + scholarship
2 scouting trips, 1 home visit, few phone calls + scholarship.  

Both techniques involve around $2,900. 

Thanks for the thoughts
3/22/2011 9:35 AM (edited)
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Conventional wisdom is that a campus visit is worth between 2 and 3 home visits.  Most people think that phone calls/letters are not a good value, i.e. you get more out of the same dollars for home or campus visits.  (There have been one or two dissenters who think they are a good value.  Also, they get better the further out the recruit is although I have no idea where the line is.)  Scouting trips are also thought to be a poor value relative to home or campus visits although I think most would agree that they have some value.

Personally I would think the first option would be more effective.
3/22/2011 9:38 AM
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It was my understanding that after some set amount of phone calls to a particular recruit, instead of garnering credit, they would annoy him.  Some sort of fix for a recruiting tactic used early or something?
3/22/2011 10:21 AM
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3/22/2011 10:26 AM
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~360 = All home visits
Outside 360 = All campus visits
3/22/2011 12:45 PM
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Posted by djp4516 on 3/22/2011 12:45:00 PM (view original):
~360 = All home visits
Outside 360 = All campus visits
Really? Seems to me that would not be the most effective way to spend your money. At 360 miles a HV is $748 compared to $1263 for a CV which equates to 1.69 HV's for every CV. I think most everyone would agree that CV's are worth roughly 2.5x more than a HV therefore from 360 miles you'd get the most bang for your buck by doing nothing but CV's.

I'm not saying that doing all CV's or all HV's is either right or wrong. I'm simply saying that for the money CV's would seem to be the better value from that distance.
3/22/2011 1:31 PM (edited)
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Posted by scottyj74 on 3/22/2011 1:31:00 PM (view original):
Posted by djp4516 on 3/22/2011 12:45:00 PM (view original):
~360 = All home visits
Outside 360 = All campus visits
Really? Seems to me that would not be the most effective way to spend your money. At 360 miles a HV is $748 compared to $1263 for a CV which equates to 1.69 HV's for every CV. I think most everyone would agree that CV's are worth roughly 2.5x more than a HV therefore from 360 miles you'd get the most bang for your buck by doing nothing but CV's.

I'm not saying that doing all CV's or all HV's is either right or wrong. I'm simply saying that for the money CV's would seem to be the better value from that distance.
It depends on the 360 - they aren't all the same.  Any distance between 355-364 is displayed as 360 - the actual distances of below 360  are in-line with the costs for 350, about $445 for an HV and $1045 for a CV.  If the actual distance is greater than 360, you're paying the prices you quote.
3/22/2011 1:45 PM
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Even at those number it seems as though CV's would be the better value... $1112.50 for 2.5 HV's compared to $1045 for 1 CV. There are some distances where HV's are the better value but from what I have seen that distace is well below 360 miles.
3/22/2011 1:55 PM
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Posted by scottyj74 on 3/22/2011 1:55:00 PM (view original):
Even at those number it seems as though CV's would be the better value... $1112.50 for 2.5 HV's compared to $1045 for 1 CV. There are some distances where HV's are the better value but from what I have seen that distace is well below 360 miles.
I'm not saying that is where I cut the line - it is below 360, but I was just pointing out that there is a range of distances representated by 360 (and all distances actually), and that there is a severe price jump at 360 and that there can be major price differentials for guys listed at 360.
3/22/2011 2:00 PM
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Gotcha, point taken...
3/22/2011 2:06 PM
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I actually went with the Campus Visit and a bunch of phone calls.  He considered after first contact.  I gave him 10 more letters and 2 more phone calls and he signed after the second phase.  (Come to find out both his parents actually attended N. Florida so.....  : )  
3/22/2011 2:47 PM
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