Prospect receives 54 handwritten letters for Ole Miss on same day.

Alabama made headlines for this last year I think. If I had a child, I'd be the Dursleys and move my son as far from the mailbox as possible. That's just too much.

Real life spam

That's what you say until you hear Michigan's doing it, at which point it shows extreme dedication on behalf of the coaching staff.

There might be something fishy going on at Ole Miss, but this isn't it. If coaches think sending a ton of handwritten letters to a recruit is going to help, they'll do it. If they think it will hurt, they won't. Clearly in this case, they feel that the kid will be flattered by the extra attention.

And yet Alabama and Ole Miss seem to be doing just fine on the recruiting trail.  Intriguing, maybe it's about feeling wanted?  I mean, really wanted, hah.

Any word on if he found a stack of cash like this inside one of the envelopes?
 

"I'd like to dictate some letters to send out---like 54 of them"

It's not hard to write "$$$$" 54 times.

Just sent 55 handwritten letters.

Hogwarts has been employing this tactic for ages.

Andy Staples did an article after signing day about how Ole Miss landed their impressive class. While there were a few lucky connections involved, the article shows how most of the success was based on aiming high and then plain outrecruiting everyone else. I thought it was especially interesting in light of Urban Meyer's comments - most of the B1G seems content to take the local scraps after Michigan, OSU, and ND get the stars, but Freeze refused to do bow to the SEC powers. This just looks like him getting at it again for next year.

Well it's better than 54 singing telegrams.  

At least someone is trying to keep the US Postal Service going.  Just being good Americans.

~Herm

"This isn’t a big surprise to those who have been following Ole Miss’ recent recruiting tactics. Hugh Freeze and his staff blanket the country with verbal offers to the nation’s best recruits and hope several decide to take a chance. " - from the article

I think it is possible that a school is trying just a little too  hard when your offers show up at approximately the same rate as mail that reads "0.0% APR for 24 months" or "Earn Double Reward Points". It is entiely possible, it would seem, that Ole Miss uses one of those bulk mail services to recruit.  

I will await my Ole Miss offer in this week's circular from  Redplum.

of how much mail he gets is probably not Michigan-bound in any event.

once a week in Oxford, Mississippi . . . 54 letters are only 8 per day.

Just imagine what happens when the internet reaches Oxford and they can just email recruits.

one of these letters for 3,000$......

Two words:  Restraining Order.

Two words:  Restraining Order.

either a large envelop or back pack full of money has been the MO of sleezey college football coahes for decades. i can assure Mr freeze that 54 letters will not be as successful.

What does letter #54 contain that the first 53 did not? Seems like one letter would do the trick...

52 "hand written letters" were for their weekly paychecks,

1 "hand written letter" was the signing bonus,

and 1 "hand written letter" was the reciept of sale.

The U.S. Postal Service must be thanking its lucky stars for college sports recruiting.  Think of the revenue generated in all those stamp sales!

At some point, grand shows like this are going to turn off some of the elite recruits. Sure, everybody enjoys some time in the spotlight, but imagine stuff like this going on for an entire year! There is a reason celebrities HATE the papparazzi, they are just never left alone.

That being said, I hope Hoke & Co. figure out the perfect balance between letting a recruit live his life and spending the right amount of time in his ear.