<p>It was very strange, NCBoy. At the time we visited Duke my daughter had the 35 ACT, top 5% of her class, NHS, plus she was ranked in the top 20 nationally in her sport. This coach acted like it was a major distraction for him that she was there. He said, “well the #1 recruit in the country is excited to be joining us next year, but if that falls through we’ll work our way down the list.” I just sort of nodded and then he went on to add “…and your chances of getting into Duke without coach support are very slim.”
As we left, I asked D if she wanted to take the campus tour and she said, “Nah, let’s just go”.
(Sidenote, the #1 recruit ended up at Stanford.)
The strange thing was that he called us to come visit campus after a national meet. I can only assume that before our arrival he had just gotten off the phone with #1 and was feeling like he had the luxury of being arrogant and rude. But as I said, 1 bad coach shouldn’t taint the entire institution.</p>