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I agree that you need both to win championships but in terms of importance I do not believe that they are both equal. You can actually be competitive and successful in CFB with good coaching & talent evaluation/development as evidenced by Wash St, Syracuse, Iowa, Iowa St, and Wisconsin. However...

I was agreeing with you, that what is most important is to recruit the RIGHT players irrespective of stars.

Yes stars matter, but coaching, and talent evaluation/development matter more. Much more. Who tf cares if MIA signs the 27th ranked class or the 8th ranked class, if it lacks the ability to properly coach & develop the talent? No matter the ranking every single class that MIA signs will...

I believe right now MIA has to at least prove/show that it can evaluate & develop talent at the level of Syracuse, Wisconsin, Iowa, Wash.St, etc. Once that happens the program will be in a much better position to challenge for those more highly contested recruits. Achieving the ideal 50-60% blue...

Simply chasing stars and attempting to win recruiting ranking contests results in what we saw with Shannon's O8' and Coker's overrated classes. They were overrated precisely because both of those coaches were poor evaluators and developers of talent. Compare that to Butch who was able to hit on...

Don't worry Dwin..you'll become a believer sooner rather than later. I know the last 20 yrs has really F'd with your mind, but rest assured there's a new sheriff in town and he lives by the mindset coaching & talent evaluations/development always trump recruiting rankings & blue chip ratios...