In the car the recruit keeps his headphones on. They are a pair of large white Beats by Dre and they are made starker by his dark dreadlocks. I ask him what other schools he is considering, but his music is so loud he can't hear me. The driver, University of Louisiana at Lafayette assistant coach Gus Hauser, taps him on the arm.
"He wants to know where you're looking?" he says.
The recruit pulls the left earphone back and tinny, bass-heavy music fills the car. He lists a handful of...