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Alright, you're Tim Brewster.

Seantrel just gets back to the Twin Cities and says he'll give you the final 2 hours of his time before you can't touch recruits anymore.

What do you say?
 

Let's go look at your new house and SUV. Here's the keys, you can drive!
 

I either take him to a luxury box overlooking the field at TCF Stadium where he can see the field and the view of campus and downtown and have Sam Maresh, jimmy Gjere, Lamonte Edwards, Kim Royston, and Matt Carufel talk to him about staying home or their experiences elsewhere and their reasons for transferring home. OR I play it real low key and just meet Seantrel at his home and hang with him and let him know how much I care for him as a student athlete and want the absolute best for him even if in his mind that does not mean Minnesota
 

I would begin / break the ice by explaining to him how sex toys should have been made of wood. This would be a hit.
 



I think I would start and finish with something like:

"oh please, oh please oh please. would you, oh won't you please, oh please oh please oh please...I love you."

but then again that didn't work in my dating life either.
 

To provide one idea for the OP, I think Brew has to somehow convince SH that he'll be able to recruit other studs to play around him. IMO, the best way to appeal to a supposed star is to help him believe that there are other supposed stars that will join him in a run for the roses. SH knows that one guy doesn't turn a 6-win team into a Rose Bowl champ - it takes a number of them. Brew has to say, "Look, if you sign with the Gophers, you'll be the first of many great dominoes. Be the leader and if you do it, next year will have three or four top Minnesotans sign - and we'll get other studs from around the country because of you."

At a USC, for example, SH would be surrounded by top-tier athletes at pretty much every position. People that consider themselves the best at something typically like to surround themselves with others who excel at what they do. I don't get the impression that SH (or his Dad) want him to go somewhere and be considered the best player on a mediocre team - they want to go somewhere he can be a great player on a winning squad. Brew has to convince him that the team will be talented enough to win during his time at the U.

He can try to appeal to his sense of community - his opportunity to be the big man on campus and around town - and that can't hurt. I'd be surprised if that sort of 'local status' thing is ultimately how SH will make his decision.
 

bankonit said:
I either take him to a luxury box overlooking the field at TCF Stadium where he can see the field and the view of campus and downtown and have Sam Maresh, jimmy Gjere, Lamonte Edwards, Kim Royston, and Matt Carufel talk to him about staying home or their experiences elsewhere and their reasons for transferring home.
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I really like this idea. I mean, you could script this into a tv show about a college football team it's so good. Play a chill song in the background that steadily builds up to the point where Seantrel finally says, "Ski-U-Mah, let's go to the Rose Bowl," etc. I know I'm completely delusional, but I'm listening to Hunger Strike by Temple of the Dog and it just hit me the right way.

thestl said:
I would begin / break the ice by explaining to him how sex toys should have been made of wood. This would be a hit.
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Thestl, I would gladly have you around as a wingman. The potential for hilarity would be absolutely epic.
 

frozengopher said:
I really like this idea. I mean, you could script this into a tv show about a college football team it's so good. Play a chill song in the background that steadily builds up to the point where Seantrel finally says, "Ski-U-Mah, let's go to the Rose Bowl," etc. I know I'm completely delusional, but I'm listening to Hunger Strike by Temple of the Dog and it just hit me the right way.

This IS a scene, from a show made by the creators of Friday Night Lights. In a world where football is life and the blood spilled on the field is Maroon and Gold.

I was going to cast the team as the show characters, but I didn't want to cast bad luck on the guy I would have dubbed Jason Street.
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I have never seen that show. But for Brewster tonight is like a wedding proposal, He has been thinking about this particular time with Seantrel Henderson for 3 years. He has probably not slept in days just thinking about the excitement, He knows exactly how to do it and what he was going to say, nothing was left to chance. Now lets just hope she, I mean he says YES.
 



I would tell him that my kid has cancer, and his only wish is to see Henderson stay home and play for the Gophers.
 




How about fly him over the stadium in the helicopter at night with the lights on and having the marching band on the field spelling out his name. Worked for Virginia basketball when they recruited Ralph Sampson. They painted "Ralph's House" on the roof of the arena and flew him over in a helicopter to see it. :)
 

Brewster is in the uneviable damned if you do and damned if you don't. If he is given this chance and he doesn't take it detractors would be all over him for not going to the last minute trying to pursuade SH, if he visits with him the last couple of hours and he does not sign him they will be all over him for not being this super recruiter that can close the deal.

In the end I can see why coaching and especially recruiting could drive a person nuts.
 

I don't know what I'd say, but I do know that before I left I would hand his dad 2 folded up pieces of paper and ask him to give it to Seantrel. The first is a prefilled fax cover letter with football office's fax number already on it. The second is a handwritten note that would look something like this:
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Son, you have a chance to do something here that you can't do anywhere else. You can go anywhere and be an All American. You can go anywhere and play in front of thousands of people. You can go anywhere and one day play in the NFL. You can go anywhere and play on a national stage. You can go anywhere and be one of the best lineman ever to play for that particular school. Your experience at all of those other places will be the same. In 20 years, you will be one of hundreds of great football players remembered at that school.

Not here, son. At Minnesota, you will transcend the football experience. You will be remembered not only as a great football player, but you will be remembered as the player that stood up for the University of Minnesota. The player that said, "No more." The player that said, "I am going to start a new tradition." The player that said, "It is time for the best athletes in the State of Minnesota to stay home and play for the University." Long after you have played your last play and long after you have heard the last cheer, your name will be mentioned not only because you will be great player, but because you had the courage to start a new tradition.

When the next superstar chooses the Gophers from the Twin Cities, you will be their role model. In 20 years when they all are choosing Minnesota, it will be because of you. You will be loved for so much more then football, you will be loved for the choice you made, for standing up and saying, "the young men of Minnesota should play for the Golden Gophers".

You will be the person that changed the tide, that restored the pride in an entire program. That is your destiny. That is why your shoulders are so broad. That is who you will be. You can't pass that up.
 

Can't say I imagined I would see the best response on this thread come from GVBadger. Kudos. I guess that means I believe in miracles!
 

I would take him out on the town for some entertainment. Specifically, take him to a hypnotist show. :D
 

We need to tip better like Tennesse and Alabama do

Minnesotans are notroiously cheap but if SH is a Gopher, then we better learn how to tip a whole lot better. Wherever he would get a job on campus the tips need to be better than he can get elsewhere to show our gratitude for him staying home.
 

BREW: Hello. I'm looking for my offensive tackle.

Seantrel: Wait...

BREW: If this is where it has to happen, then this is where it has to happen. I'm not letting you get rid of me. How about that? This used to be my specialty. I was good in a living room. And now, I just... Tonight... our little team had a very big night. A very, very big night. But it wasn't complete. It wasn't nearly close to being complete. I couldn't share it with you. I couldn't hear your voice. I couldn't laugh about it with you. I missed my... I missed my offensive tackle. We live in a cynical world. And we work in a business of tough competitors. I love you. You... complete me. And I just...

Seantrel: Shut up! Just shut up! You had me at "hello".
 

Here's the thing. If Henderson and family have a sense of state pride and how rare it is to occupy a place of legend at home, this is a truly difficult decision and one that could, maybe should, go in the U's favor. If not, there's nothing Brewster can say, nothing he can do that will begin to compare with what they've already seen and heard from the other hucksters.
 

GVB has posted something similar before and it sounds great everytime I read it. Not 'BB has grown as a coach and as a person' great, but great none the less.
 

I would promise him all of the ice cream he can eat, compliments of Schnoodler. That will convince him that we need him.
 

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