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  1. Then you can't use it as any sort of metric then. I would think knowing Wheeler accounted for 30% of the team's tackles could be useful in noting how his departure might affect us moving forward. Connelly instead knocks us some set amount of points regardless of whether he was our leading tackler or a JAG starter. Basically Wheeler hurts our 'returning starter' factor in S&P the same as it would have when Derrick Johnson left. That is a pretty brain dead factor to me.
  2. Honestly, with the amount of data Connelly claims he is crunching to get his generic roster loss factors, he should be able spin out something a little less stupid. He has to grab all the data regardless to keep his factors up to date year on year. Either he doesn't have time to grab the data early enough to put out his click-bait pre-season rankings or his generic factors are bullshit.
  3. Yeah, the idea that he could go to a JUCO and graduate in 10 months after spending a year in Normal isn't all that compelling. He needs to find another place that expends resources in getting him up to speed and keeping him on task. The JUCO route is a much harder row to hoe after SlO-U.
  4. I didn't check to see where they were last year, but I don't think they dropped as much as we did. I pretty much ignore FPI, but the S&P stuff has a whole thread devoted to it and I agree that S&P overweighs the results of games against G5 teams (and FCS games, though I am not sure if those are included in S&P). As far as returning player models go, S&P's model is completely generic and ignores context. Aggy losing Williams (who had 70% of their rushing yards and 1400+ yards more than the next RB) is treated the same as us losing Watson (who had only 40% of our total yards and less than 80 yds more than Ingram).
  5. And at the same time both act like aggy won't miss a beat. Sure we may have lost more starters in terms of sheer numbers, but as HTown notes they lost substantially more in terms of sheer production, but they are somehow almost a Top 10 team and we are in the 20s or 30s.
  6. Well Beaty coached there and Fedora went to aggy Consolidated. Considering farting in College Station is enough to earn their 'coveted' Former Student title, I think they both could claim aggy status if they really wished to.
  7. I think he is likely more of a 'No Ragrets' type.
  8. aggy isn't even on Lindberg's short list, right? Is there a highly-rated OL at IMG originally from Texas that Liucci can insert as his top 'Texas' OL?
  9. Are you saying you got pegged and liked it?
  10. Do we want Proctor now or do we want Braun to drop first and then move from there? I know there is talk we would take both, but I thought Braun was our #1.
  11. That would require us to drop Card and not take a QB in the 2020 class. Don't think Herman will ever make stupid deals like that.
  12. And that is shitting on his talent? Honestly, even if he were a Julio Jones clone, there is probably only a tiny chance he would turn out to be the same transcendent player the original was. I'm done. I'm not even sure why I am defending some other posters' rights to have a mild, barely negative opinion on an aggy recruit. You all have turned into futureman and have decided Demas is better than Julio Jones and Jerry Rice, and saying he may not be a great player based on his highlights is obviously akin to raping sheep and paying for Hamm's Facebook abortion.
  13. I am not seeing a lot of people shitting on his talent, unless you think saying he is less talented than Julio Jones or is less talented or less important than Evans is considered shitting on his talent. One guy looked at his film and didn't think he was a shoe in to be a great college player and people act like he jizzed in a jar and said, "Howdy".
  14. Low-variance schedules maybe, but at the same time we were lauding our classes, we were losing to Maryland, Kansas, Cal, Tech, and BYU. Those were all teams aggy would have beaten based on their performances over the past 5 seasons. I am surprised Demas has such a fan club around here. We spent half of the last cycle shitting on own commit with a lot of the same issues as Demas and Shepard was actually less of an open drama queen and bitch as Demas has already been before his own recruiting class has even officially started. I rarely call out recruits to any team as I don't have an eye for separating the wheat from the chaff, but like Garrett Wilson last cycle, Demas can rightly fuck off for all I care.
  15. The recruiting rankings generally try to match up to the NFL draft, in which case a QB should be the #1 recruit most years. I wouldn't use the shitty Heisman as a metric for anything, but they also choose QBs the most. QBs are the #1 draft pick probably more often than all other positions combined, at least over the past 30 years. DE and OT are the only other two positions drafted #1 going back to 1996. That year was the last time a WR was picked #1 (Keyshawn). The last RB picked #1 was Ki-Jana Carter the year before, so both positions have lost value, though RB easily outdistances WRs as #1 picks in overall history of #1 picks. I honestly don't care if our fans want to downgrade aggy or OU or any other teams' recruits. We regularly call aggy classes mostly bread and while they play an easier schedule than we do, they have managed to avoid a losing season with all that bread. Deneric Prince is definitely less likely to ever make a play as a college player than Demas, but he could be their Donta Foreman and I could certainly see Demas flaming out like Darius White.
  16. With my headset on, I definitely heard 'yanny'.
  17. Agreed. But the aggy idea that a RB shouldn't ever be the #1 recruit and that Demas is better that him are both bullshit. As you say, an elite RB is more important than an elite WR just based on the number of touches. Perhaps Demas really is heads and shoulders above Evans, but I would think even the recruiting services could have already figured that out by now.
  18. I am pretty sure the gomers are OK so long as it fits through the glory hole.
  19. Almost on topic shitposting is the proven way to 1000 pages.
  20. That's fair. Unlike your car service though, you won't get a ticket if your driver gets pulled over and can't provide their license. If 247 wants to scrape and put up profiles another system puts up, then they should share in any bad press for being too lazy or tight-fisted to check the data they put on their own site. Rivals fucked up by straight getting duped. 247 fucked up by not doing due diligence on what they put on their website. You may give them a pass, but I see it as something a low-level editor could have checked with little effort. (Just like a low-level editor could actually make these recruiting 'analysts' read like they have some proficiency with the English language.)
  21. It doesn't bother me that much in this case, but they could have an army (or just 10 people) who could verify things and check them in a relatively reasonable time frame. However Bobby and Shannon and whatever yahoos run Rivals don't want to take less money to hire people to generate a better product.
  22. Your scenario is certainly plausible, but it could be they slipped him a few hundred for committing with promises of more later. Once he got home and people informed him of the value of a promise, he decided he made a mistake selling out so cheaply. Or it could be the money sounded good until they started making conditions, like no more trips to Austin or other schools, and he decided that wasn't worth the original amount. Dickerson's driving aggy's Trans-Am to Dallas tells us all we need to know about how far buyer's remorse can take you.
  23. Not all those who enjoy sheepfucking have aggy DNA, though I imagine all those with aggy DNA enjoy it.
  24. You're more connected than I am, but there is very little about him and his conduct that doesn't scream 'transactional'.
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