Recruiting visit canned responses

"Yes, the town, the coaches, the conference, the facilities, the players. I loved them all!”

What's not to love during a recruiting visit?  It's like first date behavior. Everything looks good, smells good, tastes good, feels good.

Well, sometimes the weather doesn't cooperate.

The process is as unreal as suitorship can be.

Plus, it's obligatory to be complimentary (at least in the media) regardless of what the elements were really like.

When's the last (first) time someone came back from tripping and said "the town was ugly, the coaches patronizing, the conference shaky, the facilities looked like a barn with two hoops, the players were clique-ish. I hated them all. Bleep them."

Come to think of it, one of the blue chippers -- I'm thinking of you Shabazz Muhammad or Kyle Anderson -- ought to do just that while maintaining a straight face. It would probably take down Twitter or cause the entire 'net to collapse.

Actually, the after-visit responses which so often appear in video and print are good training for young ballers. It's what their (future/present?) agents would coach them to say once in the pros.

Well, maybe not if were talking Charles Barkley.