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Rellyrell said:
DK wasn’t a 3 star or attended a small school, though. Lol. He was a solid 4 star guy w/ offers from major colleges. I think the point is, the staff didn’t want to work b/c he committed to Ole **** in 2013 as a freshman, & they thought it wasn’t worth their time.

Again, like I replied to Brooklyndee, and u kinda proved my point, somewhere we lost our way in doing due diligence in recruiting AND scouting. That’s y I love Mario keeping Fields on staff; dude didn’t just give up on Skinner just b/c he was a Bama commit. He kept that dialogue up. When I see an offer go out now, stars be damned; I’m confident b/c the new staff is relentless in both recruiting AND scouting.

Another point u made, which is a bit disingenuous is regarding the NFL being filled w/ under recruited guys. Under recruited is not synonymous w/ stars. There are plenty of 3 star guys who have multiple P5 offers. In talking to my boy who’s in this arena, stars r based upon part ability, part production, part measurable, part school prestige, part recruiting prestige, part exposure (camps). A lot of 3 star kids didn’t have the exposure, & b/c of that, some of those offers came in late. With that being said, The Law of Large Numbers tells us the NFL is going to be composed majority of non-blue chip players b/c there’s a vastly bigger pool of such type.

There’s only 262 draft slots:
-Any given yr, there’s only 34 (avg.) 5* recruits: There’s a 52% chance (17-18) to make the league.

-Any given yr, there’s only 332 (avg.) 4* recruits:
There’s a 23% chance (76-78) to make the league.

So that’s, on avg. 93-96 spots of the 262 draft selections that are being taken up by blue chip players. You only have about 366 (avg)/yr of blue chip caliber players, but you have a 1000’s of 3-star & below players, so the likelihood of such players being drafted is much greater.
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This is a great post and spot on bruh especially about exposure and all that stuff. Hit the nail on the head with this one.
 
Rellyrell said:
DK wasn’t a 3 star or attended a small school, though. Lol. He was a solid 4 star guy w/ offers from major colleges. I think the point is, the staff didn’t want to work b/c he committed to Ole **** in 2013 as a freshman, & they thought it wasn’t worth their time.

Again, like I replied to Brooklyndee, and u kinda proved my point, somewhere we lost our way in doing due diligence in recruiting AND scouting. That’s y I love Mario keeping Fields on staff; dude didn’t just give up on Skinner just b/c he was a Bama commit. He kept that dialogue up. When I see an offer go out now, stars be damned; I’m confident b/c the new staff is relentless in both recruiting AND scouting.

Another point u made, which is a bit disingenuous is regarding the NFL being filled w/ under recruited guys. Under recruited is not synonymous w/ stars. There are plenty of 3 star guys who have multiple P5 offers. In talking to my boy who’s in this arena, stars r based upon part ability, part production, part measurable, part school prestige, part recruiting prestige, part exposure (camps). A lot of 3 star kids didn’t have the exposure, & b/c of that, some of those offers came in late. With that being said, The Law of Large Numbers tells us the NFL is going to be composed majority of non-blue chip players b/c there’s a vastly bigger pool of such type.

There’s only 262 draft slots:
-Any given yr, there’s only 34 (avg.) 5* recruits: There’s a 52% chance (17-18) to make the league.

-Any given yr, there’s only 332 (avg.) 4* recruits:
There’s a 23% chance (76-78) to make the league.

So that’s, on avg. 93-96 spots of the 262 draft selections that are being taken up by blue chip players. You only have about 366 (avg)/yr of blue chip caliber players, but you have a 1000’s of 3-star & below players, so the likelihood of such players being drafted is much greater.
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None of this has anything to do with my post though. All I said is that the league is full of guys who didn’t get to play at their dream school. For whatever reason, they weren’t considered a priority and ended up somewhere else.

Personally I don’t care that we never signed DK Metcalf or jj watt or marshal Faulk or whatever guy this board wants to bring up a decade after the fact. Digging up recruiting failures from 5, 10, 20 years ago is pointless. But you guys can go on.
 
DTP said:
None of this has anything to do with my post though. All I said is that the league is full of guys who didn’t get to play at their dream school. For whatever reason, they weren’t considered a priority and ended up somewhere else.

Personally I don’t care that we never signed DK Metcalf or jj watt or marshal Faulk or whatever guy this board wants to bring up a decade after the fact. Digging up recruiting failures from 5, 10, 20 years ago is pointless. But you guys can go on.
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My apologies; I saw ur clarification on page 4. The reason I responded to your original QP was b/c u started off saying half the NFL is made up of guys who were “under recruited” & wanted to go the Bamas/ OSUs of the world. Then u mentioned a lowly rated kid who wants to come to Miami but wouldn’t get offered. Lol. So since we were talking about DK, I was like “hold up, waaaaait” (in my Nate Dog’s voice). But I get ur point.

I think rehashing these stories gives confirmation of suspicions many fans had. At the end of the day, it’s spilt milk, & moving fwd, we’ll be good.
 
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