I am very happy for her, and very proud of how she's handled herself during the whole process. She really handled everything so professionally. She took advantage of the opportunity to visit a bunch of schools, she returned the phone calls, she did her homework and asked insightful questions, and she didn't get bowled over by any one coach's sales pitch. She took her time and really thought things out. I think this is the hardest part of the whole process for a lot of players.
Most players feel pretty guilty about telling someone no.
She called me for some advice. I mainly wanted to make sure she actually went through with the process and didn't bail out. I told her that from the moment she made her decision, she's basically wasting the time of all those other coaches. For every one player a coach gets, there's nine others he loses, so they won't take it personally. I'm always dying when we're finished, but we have a great laugh while we are in there.