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  1. Good thoughts and question. That's part of why I was parsing it out. Transfers are skyrocketing and will impact future drafts, for sure. Regarding this group, here is what I know: -Daniels, Penix and Williams are QBs that had all kinds of options. Two followed a coach they'd played for beforehand. -Nix was viewed as a bust at Auburn. He played a lot and could never put it together. -Verse exploded in development at his first stop and could have gone anywhere once he entered the portal. FSU was on him before that after seeing him on film against a common opponent (I think Syracuse but not sure). -Latu was medically retired at UW. Do we consider Degabriel Floyd a bust for the same reason? I think opinion varies on that. -Pearsall upgraded. -Guyton and Chop Robinson - I am not sure about the backstories for either.
  2. If you read it backwards, you can clearly see that he's trying to deliver state secrets to the Soviets via this forum.
  3. I kind of fatigued towards the end of my write-up and spreadsheet work or I would have dug deeper into the WR element. It's something I've lamented on this board, particularly in terms of how WR rankings can drive up the entire rankings of a team's class. Ohio State does it every recruiting cycle under Day. WR is a flash position and I suspect recruiting rankers are drawn to them like moths to a flame, similar to QB. Who tests well at the camps and also looks amazing on tape will get ranked well, but the diva factor is a big issue there and it gets little review when the rankings are formed. Harrison Jr was ranked behind guys with more elite physical traits while being the best route runner in his class and also being a known workhorse when it comes to practice and work ethic. I find it almost comical to imagine the level of utter stupidity it would take a ranker to have conversations with both Hall and Harrison, and the people around them and their coaches, and then walk away and say "yeah, Hall has the most upside". It takes effort to pull off that blunder. Or, it takes a lack of effort and they never spoke to or considered any of the two players' backgrounds and mental makeup when putting the rankings together. If you look at other classes, 5 star WRs don't fare much better. For every JSN or Garrett Wilson, you get numerous Bru McCoy/Chris Marshall/Jadon Hazelwood/Theo Wease types.
  4. While not hashed out on this site very often, the notion that recruiting rankings don't matter is still a popular position permeating CFB discussions across the Internet and in sports bars all across the country. I am curious what the 2024 draft class might tell us regarding that and other takeaways when thinking about how the services handle their bullshit. We've only seen Round 1, but I figured some thoughts from that round alone could be interesting. I put together some simple numbers that are spoilered below as a resource. Here are a few takeaways: 1) If you want to be a high draft pick, it is an imperative to play for what will now be P4 programs or Notre Dame. Verse may or may not have been discovered when at Albany. Besides him, you have Mitchell. 30 picks started at P5 and 31 finished at P5. 2) ESPN and Rivals were consistently rating these players lower, sometimes much lower, than 247 and, when they were ranking guys, On3 (they started ranking in 2021). This isn't surprising to us, I think, but it's crazy how much credence both services are still given when they're as lazy it gets. 3) 15.6% of the 32 picks are former 5 stars. 5 stars represent less .5% of the recruiting classes each cycle. Yet again, the notion that a 5 star ranking should carry some credence is fully validated by this first round. 4) Half of the picks were 4 stars while 4 stars represent roughly 15-20% of each ranked recruiting group. Again, the "coach up them 3 stars that want to be a X University ballplayer!" is folly as a general rule. If you find yourself saying this as a fan, you'd better damned sure hope you have a coach like Jonathan Smith or Kalen Daboer developing your team, otherwise you're probably fucked. 5) One place in which the rankings are suspect is on the OL. We knew this, but it is still stark. 5 of the drafted OLs in the first round were 3 stars. 2 4 stars and 2 5 stars. The 2 4 stars were ranked in the 300s and barely reached the 4 star ranking. One of those 4 stars is Joe Alt, who ESPN and Rivals basically thought was worthless. Of the 5 stars, Latham is the highest consensus ranked player of the 32 draft picks. He was viewed as about as can't miss as there ever are. Strong recruiting work by Kyle Flood on that one. The other guy, Mims, was similar and consensus ranked #10 in the same class. In effect, even can't miss guys ... miss (Tommy Brockermeyer was consensus #6 in the same cycle as these two, also solid recruiting work by Flood in terms of signing him), but you'd like to land those and otherwise have an OL coach who knows what in the hell they are doing with raw materials when they sign them. 6) 9 transfers out of 32 picks (28%), 4 QBs, 3 DEs, 1 WR and 1 OT. Not sure if there's anything to make of that, I guess. It's a small sample size and all that, so make of it what you will. I'm curious if others have any thoughts when looking at this, however.
  5. The bad boss one with Pierce Brosnan and Will Farrell. The Sinatra Group The one where Farley is a tourist on the Japanese game show. Holy shit. If it can still be found, the one(s?) where Will Farrell plays Robert Goulet and starts crooning rap songs. Oh man. So many.
  6. You know what I meant. Unvacate their losses for that period or whatever. I was passing on what guys like Dan Patrick are saying on various shows. Most of us know what the NCAA does and doesn’t recognize. The last time I saw some idiot explain MNC on a board was like 20 years ago, good lord.
  7. Dumber take - that tweet or the Broncos taking Bo Nix? Right.
  8. I like country music. Mostly the stuff before Garth Brooks showed up and ruined it, but some later stuff too. Not liking Alan Jackson and his ilk does not equate to disliking a genre.
  9. I have no affinity for UConn. Any objective observer looks at CBB right now and thinks, "man, Hurley and UConn look like they're building a dynasty." HookEm on Surly looks at CBB right now and openly states, "Texas would have beaten UConn in the Final Four last year. Rodney Terry has Texas on the brink of greatness."
  10. Blah blah aggie this aggie that we would have won if this and that. There's no joy in flaming a sunshine-pumping dipshit. I didn't say it was wrong to have your fantasies. You just don't need to subject the rest of us to them. It's pathetic.
  11. Jerry Johnson has now entered the portal for ATM. Fisher brought him in last summer as a transfer from Rice to play back-up fullback. He never played. His dad was an assistant S&C coach at ATM until The Elk showed up and laid waste to that organization. Johnson's younger brother is Chantz Johnson, an LB they brought in for that amazing 2023 class. To my knowledge, he never sees the field either. They're now at 85 players for the fall if they do not lose any other guys (including Chantz) and do not add any additional portal players. The Elk is being praised on their board for cleaning out dead transfer portal weight from the Fisher regime. As this praise is heaped on, the entire poster base ignores or fails to grasp the similar mediocrity of The Elk's portal work as well.
  12. While will they drop you off that far away? If I hired black car service for the day, would that work any differently?
  13. I realize that LTtxfan may be too dense to follow what's going on with that unfunny attempt at creating a funny mock draft, but come on, man.
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