I know he was comparing ours to Clemson's, but his "third and fourth decimal point" comment is coming from him and others saying that our talent only increased by a few points at the third or fourth decimal place, and that is flat out false.
Clemson's recruiting advantage over GA Tech the past 10 years or more is not a matter of the 2, 3 or 4 decimal points. They have clearly amassed superior talent to all but those others in the top 10-15 group.
When the decimal points are referred to it scoffingly references the difference between players like Fortson (.8728), Shymeik Jones (.8700), Jacob Cruz (.8664), Bejamin Galloway (.8664), Patrick Screws (.8653), Zion Taylor (.8622), etc. and to differentiate (using average stars) between the likes of GA Tech (2.71), Arizona (2.76), Dook (2.81), UVA (2.84), Ok St (2.85), UMD (2.88), Stanford (2.9), Miss St (2.96), Pitt (3.00), Minn (3.00), Kansas (3.00), K St (3.00), etc. All of those and more fall into a range of 0.3, or less than 10% of one another. In fact,
in this list, there are 22 programs - over 33% of P5 - that fall into that very range. There is virtually no difference between the recruiting classes of those teams.
Furthermore, rounding to the nearest whole number, there are 18 teams that average 4-stars, 54 teams that average 3-stars, and 28 teams that average 2-stars. GA Tech is in the middle group. This would mean that they should be able to play very competitively with those other teams in the middle group. In the ACC that includes UNC, NCSU, VPI, Pitt, BC, WFU, UVA, DU, Louisville, and Cuse. I'd say that's true. It also means that they should struggle to beat those teams in bucket above them. In the ACC that includes Clemson, FSU, and Miami, plus ND, UGA and Ole Miss. I'd say that's true as well.
