Baseball recruiting is a crazy job. No coach knows where, when or in what form that next group of players is going to come from, and that's what makes it a lot of fun to hear about.
"As a representative of the University of Virginia, that gets you in the door," assistant baseball coach Kevin McMullan, Virginia's recruiting coordinator, said.
Even so, no matter what school you're working for and how good its reputation may be, no coach ever knows what's going to happen once you walk through that door. That is a lesson baseball assistant coach Karl Kuhn learned early in his career.
"My first recruiting trip I took, I was at Charleston Southern University," Kuhn said. "I went to see this big right-handed pitcher in Tampa, and I met with his family afterwards. I went into the home and they gave me a glass of tea and the glass of tea had a big huge hole on the bottom and I never drank the tea and by the end of the visit there was a big puddle on the coffee table.
"So, I'm sitting there and the chair the dad is sitting on has three legs and there is a brick under the fourth leg to make it stable. Now I'm sitting there and above me there is a ceiling fan
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