An interesting read about Greg Graham and recruiting

Here's an interesting read featuring former Boise State Coach Greg Graham talking about recruitng now and then:

Recruiting road shorter at BU
Dave Reynolds
Peoria Journal Star
July 8, 2011

Greg Graham’s first exposure to a Midwest summer AAU tournament was a positive one on a couple of levels.

Graham, hired as Bradley’s top assistant last month, is working the NY2LA Next Level Invitational in suburban Milwaukee this week and was impressed with the event’s organization and the great advantage of having all the games in one building.

All of Graham’s recruiting assignments for the Braves during this first nine-day evaluation period are within a five-hour drive of Peoria — quite a change from his last job as head coach at Boise State from 2002-10.

“The closest tournament to Boise was Portland, a six-hour drive,” he said. “Seattle was seven hours. That’s pretty tough. And you’re usually driving back and forth to different gyms once you’re there. So, in some cases, you might have one-half of one game to evaluate a kid. We just didn’t get to see ’em very often...”

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