Mr. Conventional Wisdom’s post on recruiting is every bit the gem you’d expect it to be.
Pay no attention to those number one recruiting classes Nick Saban racks up year after year. He’s an artist.
“The point is that recruiting, when done well, is more art than science.”
Filed under Media Punditry/Foibles, Recruiting
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Yeah and forget that before Clemson, in the last 20 years, every team that has won a championship had at least one top 3 class in the 3 years before they won it.
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Drew Brees and Russel Wilson are short, therefore every person 6’0 or smaller has a real shot of becoming an NFL starting qb.
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Don’t underestimate the Will Muschamp Effect. When he was head coach at Florida, FSU won the national championship; when he coached at Auburn, Alabama won; when he coached at Sakerlina, Clempson won.
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Maybe the reserve fund can buy out his and the Genius’s contracts and we can get him in at GT.
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As the walls closed in on Tony Bagels, he remembered Prince:
“The legend of Julio Jones is full of mythmaking stories that lend to exaggeration and half-truths….’How many people do you know as a high school and college player who go by one name, and you know exactly who he is?’ says former Alabama assistant and ace recruiter Lance Thompson. ‘It’s like Prince.’”
https://theringer.com/julio-jones-atlanta-falcons-3fa47fb03461#.w6v8e8oly
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I met Mr. Conventional Wisdom once. I was not impressed. To honest though, I don’t think he was impressed with me either.
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