It's very stressful. You have to have great stamina. I'd be on the phone for hours every night. The competition between all the media and the recruiting services is probably just as intense as the competition among the coaches. The writers and recruiting gurus call the top players every night, seeking commitments.
Commitments are news and news sells.
There are countless 1-900 recruiting lines to prove it. It's all about money. The recruits are the obvious and best source of information. So, that's where the gurus and writers go. The competition among those people is unreal.