College football recruiting is far more than just seeking out the best players who fit well into a program and then offering them a scholarship. That's the easy part.

Nowadays is takes a strong sales pitch to convince the country's top high school prospects to pick one school over (several) others, and just offering playing time isn't enough. That's something they're likely able to get from most of their suitors, and oftentimes they end up going somewhere in spite of the competition they face to get on the field immediately.

In order to convince an impressionable teenage athlete that his best move is to pick School X over University Y and Z State, it takes the kind of proposal that would sway a dyed-in-the-wool Republican t...

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