Always enjoy dissenting opinion from you, it's never personal. I think we've been having this discussion for like 2 years now lol.
To be clear, I agree with you too especially regarding the infrastructure and investment into S&C and nutrition; it's clear we've been leagues behind the top programs in CFB.
I think your list of players actually makes my point for me, there's one or two 5-stars in there with a whole lot of 3's. That's good enough for the ACC but it's why we all knew we were going to get absolutely trounced by Bama and Clemson, which happened. We simply did not have the caliber of athletes on the line to deal with them.
Now give me the same list of players from Bama. They don't even know what a 3-star is. From the outside, it looks like they have some sort of special training program that makes their athletes better, but they don't, they have better athletes with a higher ceiling - and yeah, maybe some special sauce on top.
I was at a S&C conference a few years ago where a Bama assistant posted their periodization program, it really wasn't anything special. I also got a copy of Mickey Marotti's program when he was at Florida (Ohio State now) and again, it's nothing special.
I also don't really understand the resume issue with Feeley, what exactly was he missing? Your S&C coach is either implementing correct training protocols, or he isn't. He had a strong educational background and work history; just because he was at Temple means nothing to me, and likewise, Scott Cochran at Bama got WAYYYYY too much credit for the work he did which, again, was good but nothing special.
Training Julio Jones in college isn't hard. At all.
****, if DeVonta Smith is here at UM, everyone on CIS freaks out that he's too small. The difference is that he's a 5-star WR and can actually catch the ball, unlike Pope.
