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mortaqui

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I thought this was pretty telling concerning recruiting and the development of talent.

from sportingnews.com:

"USC had the nation's No.1-ranked recruiting class in 2005, and 11 players drafted (nine from that class) last weekend. The No. 2 class in 2005 -- Florida State -- had one."
 
look at the top players selected and then their "star rankings" out of high school...it is all hogwash-
 
mortaq I am afraid to open up your threads because of your profile pic, any chance you might consider a different one?
 
I agree with cyptomcat it looks like a pic that you would see in a line up for an axe murder or something.
 
I call it "Self Portrait"

i figured you guys would be into that audacious mustache.

Maybe I need to rethink it.
 
mortaqui said:
I call it "Self Portrait"

i figured you guys would be into that audacious mustache.

Maybe I need to rethink it.
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Cool mustaches = Magnum, PI and Salvador Dali.
Scary mustache = Mortaqui self portrait

Then again, I can't critique avatars. How long until football?
 
mortaqui said:
I thought this was pretty telling concerning recruiting and the development of talent.

from sportingnews.com:

"USC had the nation's No.1-ranked recruiting class in 2005, and 11 players drafted (nine from that class) last weekend. The No. 2 class in 2005 -- Florida State -- had one."
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That's slightly skewed, to me it means most recruiting is guesswork.

Also it shows that Pete Carrol is probably one of the most overrated coaches in college football. No one has underachieved with that much talent.

But also at UF this past season very few people left early for the draft, they are returning 17 starters. Wait until next year.

edt: .... misread i thought you said Florida not florida state
 
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Maybe FSU redshirted most of their class. 2005 recruits can still be drated next year as redshirt seniors.
 
jacketup said:
Maybe FSU redshirted most of their class. 2005 recruits can still be drated next year as redshirt seniors.
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Also, one of their players who probably would have been drafted high decided to go to Oxford (Rolle).
 
I wonder how many FSU's recruits ever made it past their junior year. Even if they step foot on campus, it seems like a lot of them flame out for one reason or another.
 
Most of the FSU players have to complete their parole before they are eligible.
 
jacket67 said:
Most of the FSU players have to complete their parole before they are eligible.
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I bet Starke* has a helluva team.

*know that is a max unit and most of them are lesser offenders but it is the only FL prison name I know
 
I can't agree more about the developing of players. You can look at one year's draft and make the redshirt argument and others, but if it is in fact true that recruiting is guess work (which I believe is true to some extent), then FSU and Miami have underachieved way moreso than Carroll. You can make an argument that college football is so competetive that losing one game a year is almost uncontrollable (which is what USC has done). But, FSU and Miami have lost tons of games with very similar recruiting classes. I just don't buy the Carroll-has-underachieved argument.
 
I've always been a non-believer in recruit "rankings".

As an example, in 2000, the Flint report ranked the less than spectacular Hobie Holiday over Terell Suggs, Roy Williams, Matt Cassell and Vince Woolfork, as well as various and sundry other NFL starters. all of whom seemed to have panned out as football players just a tad better than Holiday did.
 
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