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you're only speculating.

The very reason that many HS coaches in particular do not like to coach their own boy. If he is really good there is not a problem. If he is just middlin' or okay, then the coach has a perception problem from team and parents. And some have been known to react by not giving their son a fair shot...

Shows the fallacy of averages.

Quit reading when I got to that point about somebody has "expired their eligibility". Wake me when it's over.

I once saw a stat that as i remember showed that a bit more than half of such recruits ever succeeded in college. And as you note, many never see the field except from deep on the bench and spend their careers as practice fodder.

Dallas defensive tackle Bob Lilly immortalized one of Mark Twain's quotes with his own Deep South rendition for a commercial once: "It ain't the size of the dog in the fight. It's the size of the fight in the dog." Nobody ever wrote it better, and nobody ever said it better.

In their defense, and I do not claim to be a purist, but it is not the role of HS coaches to produce college or NFL players but to coach high school players playing high school football. If they think their late-rated "2 star" is all state or region that season, good for the kid. It is that part...

I read a piece on some aggregator site a couple of days ago that, depending on which scouting site one believed, if one believed in star ratings at all, there are only 33 five-star players in the entire country this year, most of them in the SE and almost none in the Midwest or NE. So if one...

It is, and it is. Is that not a wonderful line?

The writer Jimmy Breslin once described Dodger scout Clyde Sukeforth as a guy "who could go out to lunch and come back with a shortstop." Maybe we need a couple of those.

Again, I think ego is intruding. Nobody cares how hard it is or isn't -- lots of schools are hard -- if you don't offer what interests them. And not a lot of people are going to be successful that "few can compare to" if they just don't like what it is they are supposed to do. Lawyers call it...

Well, we will agree to disagree there. If I don't want to do technical stuff and that's about all you offer, then ...

It appears Mike Leach of Washington State shares Johnson's disdain for the posturing of the SEC, as well it seems as being a victim of "that can't work in this league" philosophy ... though it already clearly did. Actually the best quote is four paragraphs up but it wouldn't paste. It is a...

Once again, we don't get it. It ain't the academic policies that kill. Good players can qualify and have qualified. Our problem is not enough good players want to qualify because the course offerings are so limited. I don't know why we keep being surprised that not a lot of players have any...

You'd never know that the Jones TD against Georgia was a Georgia network call, would you? That third quarter still rates as the most exciting quarter of GT football in the Johnson era to me. Literally instantaneously we went from 16 down to a tie, followed by that classic Georgia sideline huddle...

Having a "great" QB is much desired, in any offense. But most of us would be hard-pressed to name even one Alabama QB during their run, and they got back into the final game with a freshman this year. (And I am at the front of the line in thinking this offense requires a very good one.) And...

I think that illustrates his point about burst speed. he got separation quickly and then kind gutted it out to the end.

If the question then is can Johnson coach well enough to win a title, yes, and with his offense, yes. Can he recruit, offense or defense, well enough? The only way we would find that out is if he coached at a large school that supported football and with a very large liberal arts curriculum --...

The conundrum is that every team out there that had a good year has a similar bucket list of what-ifs. Fact is we lost three, and what-ifs don't win championships. It's fun I know, but to be national champions you just about have to win those close games that tilted bad. (Clemson lost one but...

By he bye as somebody said once, were you aware that Bear Bryant once famously said that if he could coach the team during the week -- prepare that is -- and Bobby Dodd coach the game, "We'd never lose." i believe him.