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What's an official visit like anyway?

Joe Theismann's Leg

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So as we know CU is entertaining a ton of prospects this weekend... what do they do exactly?

Do they stay in hotels or is there a dorm on campus they stay in? Do they eat meals as a group or are they on their own for part of the visit? do they take a tour? Sit in a classroom? See the facilities?

What's one of these things like anyway?
 
I'm curious, too.

Under HaLkins, visitors were put up in the St. Julien.

Embree moved it outside town to the Omni. (I'd like to think he had a reason beyond, "I'm not doing anything that HaLkins did and the old coaches I respect used the Omni.)

Anyone know where MacIntyre is putting up the recruits?
 
Usually go something like this.

Picked up at the airport by a coach or GA.
Check in to the St. Julien
Eat at the C4C or somewhere on campus.
Meet with academic staff and professors
Go to dinner - Chop House or somewhere similar.
Then they have the night with their player hosts.
Eat breakfast.
Tour facilities.
Watch a CU Video?
maybe a BB game if there is one.
Meet with coaches and HCMM
Dinner usually at Folsom in the suites.
Time with player hosts
 
Usually go something like this.

Picked up at the airport by a coach or GA.
Check in to the St. Julien
Eat at the C4C or somewhere on campus.
Meet with academic staff and professors
Go to dinner - Chop House or somewhere similar.
Then they have the night with their player hosts.
Eat breakfast.
Tour facilities.
Watch a CU Video?
maybe a BB game if there is one.
Meet with coaches and HCMM
Dinner usually at Folsom in the suites.
Time with player hosts

With larger groups of recruits, Hawkins started out Friday night in downtown Denver for dinner, because he thought some guys might like to see that they weren't that far from a big city, with lots of sporting events (you can see where the Broncos, Av's Nuggets and Rockies play all in about a 5 minute spin), arts, culture, entertainment, concerts, etc. (none of which they have time for while plaing football, but the illusion of opportunity is there), then head up to Boulder & hotel. I know a couple times they all went to the ESPN zone before it shut down. I don't think the Tilted Kilt (which took over the space) has the same family appeal.
Hawkins also sometimes divided the Saturday night dinner up among the position coaches and himself, having the players and their player hosts eat at the coach's homes, where everyone could get to know each other.
Parents I know who went to Omni instead of St Julien were -- at loose ends, I guess that's the best way to put it --- because when there was "down time" or free time on the schedule, instead of being on the mall downtown Boulder or near enough to walk to campus, they were away from everything. So where-ever HCMM is putting the kids and families up for the night, I hope it's nearer to campus.
 
Christian Shaver's twitter

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Schools are allowed to provide snacks, no violations there. I mean they're allowed to pay for airfare, give them free tickets to athletic events and fancy dinners. They're not getting slapped for giving someone $5 worth of ****.
 
I like that the cookie has the classic CU lettering and not the italic shyte.
 
Schools are allowed to provide snacks, no violations there. I mean they're allowed to pay for airfare, give them free tickets to athletic events and fancy dinners. They're not getting slapped for giving someone $5 worth of ****.

You haven't followed the NCAA very closely, have you? This is the organization that let's one school that is giving cars away get off with a slap on the hand and gives bowl bans and guts recruiting classes on another for letting a kid wear a jacket home when he doesn't have one and is going home to a blizzard. Cam Newton's dad can ask for six figure fees and another school gets probation for giving meals to a walk-on who will never play.
 
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