Getting recruited: This is Part 2 of a series that looks behind the curtain of college recruiting. USA TODAY Sports was granted behind-the-scenes access by the football staff at the University of Pennsylvania, a Division I program that offers a high academic profile but no Name, Image and Likeness (NIL) money or scholarships. This week: Negotiating the constant change of college sports.
Read Part I: How college recruiting can be like the dating game
PHILADELPHIA — When Jon Dupont was just starting out as a football coach, he had to fend off flying mammals as he ascended the stairs to his attic domicile.
"I'd have a tennis racket over my head so that the bats didn't fly down and buzz me," he says.
Dupont remembers making $2,500 a year at Worcester (Massachusetts) Polytechnic Institute, but the housing was free (critters included).
