🗄️ From the vault: recorded May 2025.
It's early signing day, so here's a recruiting story. 2006: Sam Scholl is coaching at the University of San Diego, and one of the guards on the board happens to be an unsigned Russell Westbrook. The secret weapon? Dave's custom mixtape.
In this segment:
- Recruiting Russell Westbrook before anybody knew
- The visit, the CD, and "I'll give it to you if you commit"
- UCLA swoops in late
- Years later, the mixtape finally gets to Russ through his high school coach, Reggie Morris
- The kicker: the player hosting the visit liked another recruit better
"Please do not ever evaluate another player for the rest of your life." 😂
🎥 Full episode with Sam Scholl:
https://youtu.be/d47N52RHeIg
📸 Russell Westbrook photo (thumbnail): J R / CC BY 2.0 (cropped, edited), via Wikimedia Commons
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