Comments on: Recruiting does matter after all http://www.barkingcarnival.com/braggonut/recruiting-does-matter-after-all Sat, 19 Jul 2008 19:29:34 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.1 By: echeese http://www.barkingcarnival.com/braggonut/recruiting-does-matter-after-all#comment-9099 echeese Wed, 23 Jan 2008 23:58:09 +0000 http://www.barkingcarnival.com/braggonut/recruiting-does-matter-after-all#comment-9099 I love a happy ending!! I love a happy ending!!

]]> By: BRAGGonUT http://www.barkingcarnival.com/braggonut/recruiting-does-matter-after-all#comment-9097 BRAGGonUT Wed, 23 Jan 2008 23:49:01 +0000 http://www.barkingcarnival.com/braggonut/recruiting-does-matter-after-all#comment-9097 We are in complete agreement and you did explain your point poorly. :) We are in complete agreement and you did explain your point poorly. :)

]]> By: EyesOfTX http://www.barkingcarnival.com/braggonut/recruiting-does-matter-after-all#comment-9095 EyesOfTX Wed, 23 Jan 2008 23:12:16 +0000 http://www.barkingcarnival.com/braggonut/recruiting-does-matter-after-all#comment-9095 <em>EOT, I think you have it backwards. I think Rivals has the caliber of Texas Tech player rated correctly. The offensive scheme just gets more out of their talent (hence the higher the winning percentage). Essentially, that offense puts lesser talent in a better position to succeed.</em> ============================================= Well, I don't think I have it "backwards" - I think that's exactly what I'm saying. The Rivals system ranks players according to what scouts believe their ability is in a normal system. The Tech system simply gets more out of certain kinds of lower-ranked players than other systems do. I think you and I are in complete agreement here, I just probably didn't explain my point well enough. EOT, I think you have it backwards. I think Rivals has the caliber of Texas Tech player rated correctly. The offensive scheme just gets more out of their talent (hence the higher the winning percentage). Essentially, that offense puts lesser talent in a better position to succeed.
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Well, I don’t think I have it “backwards” - I think that’s exactly what I’m saying. The Rivals system ranks players according to what scouts believe their ability is in a normal system. The Tech system simply gets more out of certain kinds of lower-ranked players than other systems do.

I think you and I are in complete agreement here, I just probably didn’t explain my point well enough.

]]> By: HenryJames http://www.barkingcarnival.com/braggonut/recruiting-does-matter-after-all#comment-9083 HenryJames Wed, 23 Jan 2008 18:57:00 +0000 http://www.barkingcarnival.com/braggonut/recruiting-does-matter-after-all#comment-9083 These guys have a model that predicts where a member of the Rivals 100 will sign. http://ssbea.mercer.edu/lynch/CFRPM.htm These guys have a model that predicts where a member of the Rivals 100 will sign.

http://ssbea.mercer.edu/lynch/CFRPM.htm

]]> By: Vince Young http://www.barkingcarnival.com/braggonut/recruiting-does-matter-after-all#comment-9082 Vince Young Wed, 23 Jan 2008 16:48:10 +0000 http://www.barkingcarnival.com/braggonut/recruiting-does-matter-after-all#comment-9082 Rivals couldn't give me ten stars. Rivals couldn’t give me ten stars.

]]> By: BRAGGonUT http://www.barkingcarnival.com/braggonut/recruiting-does-matter-after-all#comment-9080 BRAGGonUT Wed, 23 Jan 2008 15:21:47 +0000 http://www.barkingcarnival.com/braggonut/recruiting-does-matter-after-all#comment-9080 EOT, I think you have it backwards. I think Rivals has the caliber of Texas Tech player rated correctly. The offensive scheme just gets more out of their talent (hence the higher the winning percentage). Essentially, that offense puts lesser talent in a better position to succeed. The NFL essentially bears that out as Welker is the only Tech player making an impact. EOT, I think you have it backwards. I think Rivals has the caliber of Texas Tech player rated correctly. The offensive scheme just gets more out of their talent (hence the higher the winning percentage). Essentially, that offense puts lesser talent in a better position to succeed.

The NFL essentially bears that out as Welker is the only Tech player making an impact.

]]> By: echeese http://www.barkingcarnival.com/braggonut/recruiting-does-matter-after-all#comment-9078 echeese Wed, 23 Jan 2008 14:31:27 +0000 http://www.barkingcarnival.com/braggonut/recruiting-does-matter-after-all#comment-9078 Just as Bill Little and I thought Just as Bill Little and I thought

]]> By: EyesOfTX http://www.barkingcarnival.com/braggonut/recruiting-does-matter-after-all#comment-9077 EyesOfTX Wed, 23 Jan 2008 13:52:07 +0000 http://www.barkingcarnival.com/braggonut/recruiting-does-matter-after-all#comment-9077 On Tech being the biggest overachiever - wouldn't that likely be a function of the Rivals ranking system - or any other recruiting ranking system - being unable to accurately guage the quality of recruits as they will relate to the Tech offensive scheme? Guys like Danny Ammendola may not be highly ranked coming out of HS, but they are hell on wheels in that offensive system. By the same token, OLs that programs like Texas don't want to sniff work out just fine in that scheme. So I guess it doesn't really surprise me that Tech's a big overachiever in this ranking system. As for the Ags being the biggest underachiever, well, they're Aggies. On Tech being the biggest overachiever - wouldn’t that likely be a function of the Rivals ranking system - or any other recruiting ranking system - being unable to accurately guage the quality of recruits as they will relate to the Tech offensive scheme? Guys like Danny Ammendola may not be highly ranked coming out of HS, but they are hell on wheels in that offensive system. By the same token, OLs that programs like Texas don’t want to sniff work out just fine in that scheme.

So I guess it doesn’t really surprise me that Tech’s a big overachiever in this ranking system.

As for the Ags being the biggest underachiever, well, they’re Aggies.

]]> By: Sailor Ripley http://www.barkingcarnival.com/braggonut/recruiting-does-matter-after-all#comment-9074 Sailor Ripley Tue, 22 Jan 2008 23:57:05 +0000 http://www.barkingcarnival.com/braggonut/recruiting-does-matter-after-all#comment-9074 Great find, Bragg. So a loss to App State doesn't count either? Great find, Bragg. So a loss to App State doesn’t count either?

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