This series looks to be good

"Recruiting Game: Recruiting evolves from simple to complex in Information Age" -- Ed Graney

An excerpt from the first of a series of articles:

“Take basketball,” [Frank] Burlison said. “You have 360-plus Division I teams with 13 scholarships annually. Do the math. Any given year, maybe 20 to 30 guys make the NBA. But we tend never to focus on all those who don’t make the pros or were never going to, kids who received free educations and went on to become teachers and doctors and lawyers and businessman and positive, upstanding members within their communities.

“There are dirty, seedy people in politics, in business, in the medical field, in every field. It’s also true in coaching and recruiting. But there is still more good than bad in it. I really believe that. The recruitment of thousands of young men and women athletes each year still leads to more long-term positive ripple effects on society than not...”