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Where are the folks who like to throw around the term 'development' to defend the concept with specificity? Tell us what it means, how you measure it, and how it relates to evaluations and other aspects of coaching. (I took a shot at these things in this thread.) It gets really tiring to hear...

Probably starts with coaches that hype the NFL as a reason to come to 'the U.' COKER started this actually. His old recruiting pitch was that the three key decision-criteria for picking a college for top prospects were (a) get to nfl; (b) winning titles; and (c) get a degree. His argument was...

100% agreed. I’d also note that the traits that explain development may (likely do) vary by position - not same for QB, DB and OL, and maybe not even same for OL and DL (as some have observed over time). This makes recruiting hard because kids can switch positions. It also implies some sort...

IMO the question of whether ‘development’ is a real thing at all (rather than an after the fact label) requires a belief that a staff can be generally better or worse at it ... so I didn’t even mean my comment to be about our specific staff, just any staff. I have noted since the old canestime...

I can’t imagine we disagree strongly on this, but we may be looking through different ends of the telescope, so to speak. For any given kid, you can see whether they improved materially or not, but the question is why they did, if you’re trying to understand whether our staff is good at...

Yes.

Development cannot be looked at on a one-off basis, imo. If you take 5 kids at DB and 1 improves a lot and 4 don’t, did you ‘develop’ him? What about the other 4? How do evaluations fit in? Maybe the kid was well chosen and he ‘developed’ himself - the way kids do at plenty of other schools...

This. How would they separate evaluations from development, in any case?