Ethnicsands
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Who do you think is the bigger impact college player, leatherwood or nelson?A few months back I was debating with one of the many dummies on this site who constantly whine that Miami will never "be back" if it continues to lose battles for 5 stars to Bama. I pointed out that Miami's historical success was not built on outrecruiting Bama and bag schools for 5 star players, it was built on finding the under-the-radar prospects who might a year or two to develop, then turn into top draft picks in year 3 and 4. The problem is that a sizeable percentage of the fanbase are impatient morons who want to kick a kid to the curb because he isn't an all-american his freshman year or gets put on the field before he's ready and looks terrible. To prove this point, I bet the dummy that 2 star Zion Nelson would end up being a higher draft pick than 5 star Alex Leatherwood (looking like a 2nd rounder now). Of course, the dummy thought this was outrageous and there was zero chance of that happening. I'm not going to call the dummy out by name, but you know who you are.
This whole under the radar stuff is 78% fiction. Miami evaluated well and recruited well. More kids overall were ‘under the radar’ back before the internet tuned up the ‘radar.’ But we got some top national top kids, and many top local kids.