Web-Conferencing & Recruiting

After my last post about web-conferencing and wanting to use it over Christmas vacation to save everyone a trip back to work, I began to think about Web-Conferencing's long term potential as a useful tool in football recruiting. During the months of May and December football coaches are allowed to travel all over the country to visit potential student athletes and their families. This travel puts a lot of stress on the coaches due to the fact that they constantly have to call and check in with individuals in the office. It also gets difficult for everyone on the staff to be on the same page with the recruiting of individuals. If we could get web-conferencing involved then it would be very easy for staff members to log onto a computer and share documents as well as pertintent information regarding personal, athletic, and academic information about the student-athletes. This would be much more cost effective than spending the money to fly everyone back on weekends to have meetings. It would also take a lot of stress off of the coaches because it would cut out one of the many trips a week that they are required to take.