For some reason, college football teams think it is a good idea to recruit players by sending them voluminous amounts of mail. Mail, real in-the-mailbox mail, in 2014. Apparently, they don’t think sending dozens of letters to one human being reeks of creepiness and desperation, which, well, it obviously does.
Notre Dame breaks our unofficial “sending recruits mail” record with 129 letters
“We want you to come to Notre Dame so much we sent you 129 letters. We also sent all these other people 129 letters.”
In our research, the most mail a school has sent to an individual recruit was 115 pieces. It appears Notre Dame has broken that record (edit: Notre Dame actually already had the record), and they told the world about it.
Are you one of our priority recruits that received 129 pieces of mail today? #NDSS16 pic.twitter.com/HY5NHdtkcC
— Notre Dame Football (@NDFootball) September 2, 2014 They didn't just send one recruit 129 pieces of mail. They sent *many* recruits 129 pieces of mail.
We’re not sure why they thought it was a good idea to broadcast this information -- part of the allure of the “hey, we sent you 100 letters” is that it tells recruits that they are unique and special and that the school will do anything to land them, whereas this tweet shows that, no, even you’re not unique and special, kid who just got 129 pieces of mail, you are just one of our many people to whom we sent 129 pieces of mail.
In other news, recruiting coordinators are singlehandedly keeping the mail industry alive.
