The most for your money - Thomas Brandsma

Of all the types of recruits a team might get, perhaps those with which you get the most bang for your buck are players who come with coaches, who transfer to a new school when the coach gets a job there. Thomas Brandsma falls into that category. In cases such at this, the player already knows the coach and vice versa, and they presumably like each other, since the player went with the coach. The player knows the coach's system and the coach knows how the player fits into his system and what his strengths and weaknesses are. The learning curve is almost nil, and so those players can be instrumental in helping all the other players in the new system. I am glad we had a kid who thought enough of Coach Beard to come with him.