No. You do it by recruiting players with elite potential regardless of the "stars" beside their name. You consistently insist on putting the cart before the horse.
That's simply not true. They hand out around 30 5* ratings each year. Roughly 18-20 will be drafted. Around 60%. The draft isn't a perfect measure of recruiting site accuracy but it is the most objective we have. MANY 4*, 3*, 2*, and no stars will be taken in the draft. MANY will be taken well before some of the 5* guys.
LOL. No they don't. Their arbitrary limit on the number of 4* and 5* players is an attempt to cherry pick. And STILL there are more players they rank below 4* that get drafted than 4/5*. Around 18 5* players on average will get drafted. That's around 7% of the draft.
That's not what successful recruiting is about. You recruit potential if you want to build a championship roster. Some things are really obvious. A few kids (and 100 out of several thousand HSFB players is a few) mature early and have high level physical ability. Some of those 5* guys are close to their ceiling. A lot of 3* guys are nowhere near theirs.
I honestly think he does. He somehow thinks that the coaches pay attention to how the recruiting sites rank a kid.
Assume you have 10 kids with a 4.0 HS GPA, 100 kids with a 3.0 HS GPA, and 1000 kids with a 2.0 HS GPA. You’d probably assume the 10 kids with the 4.0 are “smartest”, but you may find that there are some kids in the lesser categories with untapped potential. Statistically, the 4.0 kids tend to be “smarter”, but you’ll find a smaller, but present, sector of kids that outperform their original expectations when provided with the necessary resources. So maybe 7 in the 4.0 group score well, 8 in the 3.0 group score well, and 12 in the 2.0 group score well. Yes, 20 from the lesser groups are in the top 27, but 7 of the top 10 maintained the expected trajectory as opposed to 92 of Group 3.0 & 988 in Group 2.0.
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Just stop tryin to speak facts to people man. They don’t wanna hear it. You’re right Georgia, Alabama, Michigan, OSU all these teams are at the top every year bc they consistently finish in the top 5, you even said potentially we don’t have to finish at the top and it would make it easier.
Your analogy isn't strong enough. You would have to add about 20 kids with 4.0 that for whatever reason you didn't recognize or else didn't know about. The grading scale and difficulty for all of those you attempted to segregate would have to be different. Then you would have to add in a healthy dose of subjectivity.
And ALL of the reality shows that much less than 50% of any draft will be made up of those players. If they were accurate in the way you think then practically the whole draft of 262 would be chosen from 247's top 247, On3's top 300, and Rivals 250.
Agree on all points. To have year over year opportunity for NC, you've got to recruit like UGA/Bama. We are only a couple years recovered from being entirely dysfunctional for over a decade and I'm just enjoying being semi relevant.
Yes, I think Clemson has a disclaimer by their discussion b/c even in their best years, they don't have the SEC gauntlet to deal with, but give them credit for winning the games that matter I guess. Their build from Taj Boyd to where they are I think is a similar build for JH...get the QB, and in JH case, the system, to attract talent at other positions. Think Clemson in trouble b/c their core recruiting areas are covered up with teams playing at a higher level than the past decade...UGA, UT, SC...picking off players they were getting.
I really really agree with you and SG, Some commenters fail to realize highlight film is just that, never show the fumbles whiffed blocks dropped passes etc. It would be hard for me to believe that some kids just haven't reached their potential in HS. Dillon Bates is an example of a player that had superior coaching and reached his full potential in HS there just wasn't improvement left in him.It's really simple.
A star is not actual talent.
A 3 star 6'1 180 lb WR than runs a 4.5,
DOESN'T become a 6'3 205 4.3 speed WR because someone gave him two more stars to become a 5 star.
And YES, some of y'all are adopting to that truly without even realizing it.
You call a player a 4 star, and that's "what he IS". As if he's interchangeable with another 4 star player at the same position...because they're both 4 stars.
My God, Big Orange Train is the absolute worst of them. He literally thinks a star equals ATHLETIC ABILITY.
And what are the chances that there are ALWAYS 30 players each cycle that are the absolute best...and are all exactly equal in talent
Some of these Tennessee greats that everyone idolizes wouldn't have been ranked high had there been star rankings in their time. So many good players from the state of Tennessee made those Fulmer teams badass.
It's absolutely ridiculous how so many people just can't use their own eyes anymore.
Think there's a good possibility that we take a slight step back this year on wins. Hooker was the equalizer, where talent, "in game" competitiveness and leadership was a steadying factor. Am glad we have Milton as a bridge to Nico, and he has all the tools, but am not sold (yet) on him having consistency over the course of a LONG season that we're going to need.
