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fine line to that, because you'll become out of whack. Right now we're short on offense, we're under our numbers at al- most every position on offense. Defen- sively we're not, we're pretty much at our number or above. So you have to be careful, because if you get too far out of whack, you're going to have a hard time making that up the following year. So we just keep track of all those things and our scholarship grids and making sure we have an understanding. That also will really have a big part in what you're going to emphasize next year. How much weight do camp per- formances carry as opposed to seeing a quarter of them in person or seeing the highlight tapes? I think it's really important. If you look at most of our class, a bunch of the guys came to camp and worked out so that they could improve and get better with their fundamentals and their skills and have great high school careers. But also, there's an opportunity to evaluate those guys and see how coachable they are. So all those things I think are really impor- tant. I think the camp in-person evalu- ations are important, whether it's going to watch them practice or watching them play basketball or football or being in camp. I think those things are really valuable. It seems like everything today went off without a hitch, no real surprises. Is that what you guys expected com- ing into the day or were there a few guys who were iffy? Yeah, I don't like drama. I don't like drama professionally, I don't like drama personally. So we try to talk through the process. Really detailed. You guys have heard me say this before, I don't want guys to commit unless they're a hun- dred percent sure this is what they want to do. Some people say, Coach, that's not fair, he should be able to go on other official visits. That's fine. If you want to go on other official visits, don't commit. But once you give us your word that you're coming, that's what we expect. So we kind of make sure the high school coach is on the same page, parents are on the same page, the young man is on the same page and understands what he's doing, and we're pretty thorough about that. Because of that, we don't have a whole lot of issues. But there's still a lot of anxiety until that last one comes through. Josh Gattis was impressive because he had the first two in this morning. I think it was Brandon Polk and Irving Charles, they were the first two in. But he also got the last one in. That was Shareef Miller, so Josh Gattis will be buying lunch for the entire staff, because the last one in does that. He's going to get up here later and probably make an argument about why he shouldn't have to do that, but he will be buying lunch for everybody. We compete in everything we're doing, and there was anxiety until that last one came in. But I think more than any- thing, because of how thorough and de- tailed we are about the process and because we're very open and honest, we didn't have any drama this morning, which is awesome. F E B R U A R Y 5 , 2 0 1 5 B L U E W H I T E O N L I N E . C O M 12 FRANKLIN CONTINUED FROM 11

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