ShortSideOption
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Lol this is true... I have never been a big ratings guy anyway. There's way too many variables they can't measure (just look at how many four stars we have that fizzle out).I realize it's the offseason and no topic is offlimits - at least yours is about football and not some of the other goofy stuff we see and I do give you credit for that...but, you are averaging subjective ratings and attempting to make objective comparisons. The end result is GIGO (garbage in, garbage out). Einstein once said "not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts."
If anything, I agree with the premise that you may be working up to - Scott and company may do a better job developing players (and coaching, and gameplanning, and playcalling) than other recent staffs. We'll see. Early indications are that they will - and I'm definitely with you on that. We just got to that conclusion different ways - I got there by the eyeball method and spiked koolaid - you got there through complex manipulation of statistical chopped salad. It's all good.
You are pretty much spot on with what I was trying to get at, I just have a terrible mind at getting to what I want to convey sometimes. My other point I was hoping someone to lead me to (which i'll just say you did), is people were giddy towards the end of the recruiting cycle "that we are going after all 4 stars" and "we aren't filling the class with guys that only have offers from Alabama-Birmingham like Bo did." If you actually look at it, we took a bunch of kids EARLY that are like that such as Nelson, Snodgrass, Anderson, Farmer, etc. If those were second signing day guys (minus the Nebraska kids) people are probably saying "should we really be going after them" or "maybe we should hold some scholarships back for walk-ons or next year." I think the difference is that we IDENTIFIED these kids early as wants. Anderson while having low offers, could be a stud in the future just looking at some things.
I am excited to see how this OL class and guys like Banks on the defensive side turn out. Our skill guys are going to be fine.