See the link below. From the article:
"One day after helping pull off one unbelievable recruiting class, Evan Cooper finally got to fly home to Philadelphia to see his 4-year-old son for the first time in 2017. When you're scrambling the way Baylor's new director of player personnel had to, you have no choice -- you uproot your life and figure out the rest later.
"I've been roughing it out of a hotel in Waco," Cooper said. "That's just how it goes. We had to start from scratch. My fiancée is a trooper, man. She deserves an award. I might have to get her a plaque."
Cooper, like his boss Matt Rhule, left Temple for Baylor at the start of December and planned to make a big splash despite no real experience in the state of Texas. Baylor's 2017 class went from one commit to 29 signees in just five weeks. The new staff was trying to sell a university that continues to face scrutiny over the way it handled sexual assault allegations in the Art Briles era."
And,
"As the new guys in the state, Cooper and the Bears' recruiting staff knew they had to make a strong first impression on Texas high school coaches. Rhule's hiring of Cedar Hill's Joey McGuire, Cedar Ridge's Shawn Bell and San Antonio Reagan's David Wetzel straight from the high school ranks was essential to pulling off this class.
"If you write a story about this recruiting class," Cooper said, "those guys should be the headliners."
When the staff completed the list of kids they liked, they made sure to reach out to the high school coaches first. That was a must. Yes, they sent an endless amount of direct messages to recruits to gauge their interest, but they wanted the high school coaches to always know before they offered."
http://www.espn.com/college-footbal...t-rhule-built-baylor-recruiting-class-scratch
