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Dan Hawkins Sending "Boxes of Money" to Recruits
by Husker Mike on Jan 19, 2009 10:55 PM CST in Football

Did that get your attention? Think I'm making this up? Check this out from Boulder's Daily Camera...

Instead of sending envelopes with the school logo to prospects who receive dozens of similar pieces of mail each week, CU sent small, black cardboard boxes about the size of a standard pizza box.

Intrigued recruits opened the box to find it filled with a pile of hundreds of business cards designed to resemble $100 and $500 bills. A message inside the box told recruits the money totaled $333,000, equal to the value of an education at CU.

“Again, it just comes back to that autonomy that he lets people have and having the right people in place and letting them be creative in their jobs,” Tucker said.

Each card had a CU coach’s face where the former president would normally be on currency. The cards featured contact information for coaches on one side and the core values of the program on the other. CU went through a lengthy approval process with the Secret Service for the project, but it was scrapped after other programs began asking questions about its legitimacy.

Needless to say, neither the Big XII office nor the NCAA were too pleased with this, and now the NCAA has now instituted a rule to prohibit this action.

Hawkins claims that honesty is the cornerstone of recruiting, but I've really got to question how someone can make that claim when they send out boxes of fake money to potential recruits. Sure, it gets your attention, but does it really send the right message? "We'll do anything to get you to come to Boulder!" And how many recruits are disappointed that the money isn't real.

Corn Nation - Husker Football - Vastly Improved in 2008!

[HuskerFalcon]

Puck the Fuffs

[HUSKERNSAV]

Hawkins IS a total JOKE ! Times are getting tough in Boulder lmao!!!!

[tattooedhusker]

wonder if drugs and hookers came with the box

[zE bOp]

Buffaho's recruiting drive subcontracted out to Guido's Pizzaria...

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Card inside: "Come to freaking CU loser be-otch!"


...delivery ho'...

[huskerborn]

I thought it was funny, still stupid but funny.

[zE bOp]

Subcontracting out your recruiting to the local pizzaria: BRILLIANT!

I hate the Buffaloes. Is it me or do they continually do retarded things? I wonder how long Hawkins will last there?

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Here's Hawk's latest stroke of genius:

Hawkins unveils QB technology

This is fresh . . . Colorado began spring practices Tuesday with each of its three quarterbacks equipped with a helmet camera, according to The Boulder (Colo.) Daily Camera.
"We're always trying to stay on the cutting edge here technology-wise," CU head coach Dan Hawkins told the newspaper. "We'll see how it meshes in with what we do, but it just basically gives us a picture of what the quarterback is looking at."
The tiny cameras are designed to film the quarterback's point of view during each play. The film is later synchronized with standard overhead coaches' film to give coaches a better idea of what the player was looking at when he made each decision. The cameras record to a chip which is housed inside a recording unit placed inside hand warmers the quarterbacks will wear around their waist.
"It's an entirely new perspective," quarterback Cody Hawkins told the Daily Camera. "It puts you in the fire. You get to see exactly what the quarterback saw because if you're watching a game from the stands, you're not exactly sure how the passing lanes are moving or how backers are moving based on routes that are passing them. So you can look at the frames at the exact moment in time that you threw the football."