Before the Superbowl, JSOnlne had an article that analyzed the Wonderlick scores of both teams. The thing that really stood out to me was that the "skill players" on Indy (WRs and RBs) had extremely low scores on this test. Later, I saw a blip about Miami University's athletic program's success. At first I thought nothing of it, but then I noticed that it was not the University of Miami Hurricanes, but rather that Miami University Red hawks, which is normally referred to as Miami of Ohio.
Honestly, put these two together, and its hard to imagine that MU could not easily hire some shady recruiters and trick the super talented but not so super smart (although its so hard find them now a days since standardized testing now forces kids to learn things like the capital of Wisconsin is not Milwaukee and Milwaukee is not in the state of Chicago) into thinking they are signing up to play for University of Miami when they are really signing up for Miami University. If the climate of Ohio is anything like Wisconsin, it probably would be hot and humid when camp broke for the the freshman. That, along with some clever practice gear and a little "trickeration", makes me think that one could easily muster at least a super athletic team in the MAC conference.
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Pelsi, In my opinion that isn't a bad idea, but if you are going to use that sort of trickery with the "not so bright" football athletes of America, I would try to make sure the Miami University head coach has the same last name as the University of Miami head coach. That way you can have your "shady" recruiters make statements like, "Coach X believes you would really make a huge impact by playing at Miami" or other deceptive comments to really get the players to make the wrong decision. However, I really can't believe any player would commit to a school without ever visiting it or meeting the head coach. But then again, I would probably get a score higher than 20 on the Wonderlich test.
I see your point, and I like the use of Coach X, thus the coaches only need to share the first letter of their last name. Honestly, there are people who have never left their home town who I think could be had through the clever use of charter flights in the summer (junior year). For instance, I never left the WI/IL/MN area of the country until I was 23 and working at D&T. The part I am having trouble with is the whole ocean thing. Is there a fair sized lake near the campus?
After they figure out they've been had, the boosters and all that other noise come into play. I mean, if you are tricking people anyway, what could the creative use of booster funds really hurt? And c’mon, we have all seen He Got Game, we know how the girls work, they are practically porn stars. Speaking of that, you can probably have a few of these guys on the basketball team. Look at Charlie Ward.
Once you program builds up some steam, you might actually get some recruits based on the status of the team, including some voting errors that could occur if you can put enough pressure on the AP to remove the "of Ohio" label, and the fact that some smarter guys will understand the strategy and want to thus benefit from it, thus you can rely less on the funny stuff (but still do just for schnitz and giggles).
For what it's worth, I remember some kid I knew in school that had trasfered from Miami (OH) saying that the girls there were amazing. A high schooler would surely assume this about Miami (FL).
The Redhawks should also change their colors to emphasize Green and Orange.
They need to emphasize that "Ohio" is on the schedule for a big game, if only they could get Fresno St on the schedule so they could circle the game against "FSU" every year.
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