Clayton Powell-Lee... anyone notice this?

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stinger78

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Congratulations, CPL, on a great first year!
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He was a lowly mid 3* recruit. Discuss...
 
Good for him and Tech! As for his rating, it is irrelevant. With the exception of your top percentage of talent (5*), the ratings have long been a poor prognosticator of who will perform well in college. I once had a college coach tell me he could call the rating services and get stars assigned.
 
The Wasp said:
Good for him and Tech! As for his rating, it is irrelevant. With the exception of your top percentage of talent (5*), the ratings have long been a poor prognosticator of who will perform well in college. I once had a college coach tell me he could call the rating services and get stars assigned.
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Agree, but that comment was an afterthought. The real news is CPL is the real deal and has 3 more years (hopefully) left to perform on the Flats.

Well done, young man!
 
The Wasp said:
Good for him and Tech! As for his rating, it is irrelevant. With the exception of your top percentage of talent (5*), the ratings have long been a poor prognosticator of who will perform well in college. I once had a college coach tell me he could call the rating services and get stars assigned.
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He had a high DNA rating.
 
He was one of the few true freshmen being talked up preseason, then basically took the job from an experienced player midseason. Congrats indeed. His future is bright.
 
And now, hopefully, we have righted our S&C program and he will get stronger and faster and be a beast to ng forward. We looked jacked at corner and safety for several seasons, but damn we got slow.
 
If you look back, we've recruited well at DB and have also taken in a few good transfers at the position. We should be good there for the foreseeable future. Now, to replenish LB and get the DL to make the next step up. If we can do this, we can be pretty decent on D in 2023. That's the group that seemed to improve game by game this past season. Their +/- was very good.
 
stinger78 said:
If you look back, we've recruited well at DB and have also taken in a few good transfers at the position. We should be good there for the foreseeable future. Now, to replenish LB and get the DL to make the next step up. If we can do this, we can be pretty decent on D in 2023. That's the group that seemed to improve game by game this past season. Their +/- was very good.
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Exactly. Competition is king. Effort based.
 
JJacket said:
Exactly. Competition is king. Effort based.
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Even going back to CPJ we did well at DB.
2018: Jaylon King and Juanyeh Thomas (and actually Charlie Thomas)
2017: Tariq Carpenter, Trey Swilling, and Kaleb Oliver
 
The Wasp said:
Good for him and Tech! As for his rating, it is irrelevant. With the exception of your top percentage of talent (5*), the ratings have long been a poor prognosticator of who will perform well in college. I once had a college coach tell me he could call the rating services and get stars assigned.
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You're right that ratings are irrelevant once you get to college but the HS recruiting rankings have a lot of data and camps behind them, not just who has offers from which schools.
 
The Champ said:
The experienced player, Jaylon King, had a season ending injury against Pitt. King is a good player and was having a very good year as well.
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Both safeties that finished the year starting did not begin the year starting. Only one of the original safeties was lost due to injury. Powell-Lee and Brooks were both fantastic in the 2nd half.
 
JoeCakeEater said:
Both safeties that finished the year starting did not begin the year starting. Only one of the original safeties was lost due to injury. Powell-Lee and Brooks were both fantastic in the 2nd half.
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We actually didn’t have any starters when we began the season. Starters were first introduced in the Pitt game.
 
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