Devo182
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I actively searched for it, actually. I'd be happy to see him seen in such a light (why wouldn't I?) but I could only find him listed once, on a top 25 list, out of 6 or 7 different rankings I read.I've heard that said numerous times. There's a chance you haven't heard it. There's a better chance you didn't want to hear it.
We're going off what Fulmer and Pruitt think. They could be wrong... but they're closer to be experts on the matter than you.
That is too strong a correlation between what we are willing to pay people and how they rank. Again, they just paid 1.2m to Helton. Does that make him a top 10 OC just because he got paid that much?? OF COURSE NOT. And Chaney was just paid 950k last year...does that mean Helton was 25% better than Chaney? Heck no. Chaney literally should be just the same as he was last year...yet he got a whopping 50% increase. In no way does that make him 50% better.
That is just the kind of premium we are willing to shell out right now. I, for one, am glad we are. But I don't falsely equate our premium expensing for elite quality. And by reports, we tried to get Yurcich first.
I think Chaney is a great fit for us and will do really well with JG. I just don't think he brings the added-value necessary to get us over the top. He has proven he's good at getting the expected amount out of players, but not much more. It's unlikely we recruit like UGA anytime soon, so we will need staff that rank highly on "coaching effect" to get over the hump. Chaney could get us to the turning point, backed with Pruitt's defense. I just think we'll need someone else to take us the rest of the way. We're not going to out-Bama Bama or UGA. We need a competitive/schematic advantage.