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<blockquote data-quote="Northeast Stinger" data-source="post: 100126" data-attributes="member: 1640"><p>Hard to argue with the points you made but I would want us to be careful not to set up straw arguments. I don't recall CPJ ever suggesting that getting a number one rated recruiting class was unimportant. All he has ever said is that these scouts do not have time to watch several thousand athletes in person and therefore we should take it with a grain of salt when a player is rated the 126th best player at his position in the country. You have to admit he has a point. After you get past the top twenty players at a given position you are kind of guessing on the small nuances of difference in the remaining 300 or so players. We have seen the last few years, with regard to Tech recruiting, that there is sometimes a little bit of group think by scouts when it comes to recruits. Some of this is directly related to the SEC hype machine. Simply put, if Alabama offers, the player must be good. If Alabama does not offer, the player must not be quite as good. Some teams in recent years have done an exceptional job of finding good players who were not highly ranked. Utah and Boise State have kind of made a thing out of beating big time college programs while stocking their rosters with recruiting classes that do not even make the top 50 in the nation. </p><p></p><p>Anyway, it is not either or, in my opinion. No one, not even CPJ, is saying recruiting rankings don't matter. Rather we have to recognize that Tech is probably going to be one of those schools that can occasionally get really good recruiting classes that are not actually rated as really good. In this regard one prediction that CPJ made a few years ago has come true. He said, basically, wait until we have a large number of players in our recruiting class and you will see us jump 20 places or so in the rankings." He was right.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Northeast Stinger, post: 100126, member: 1640"] Hard to argue with the points you made but I would want us to be careful not to set up straw arguments. I don't recall CPJ ever suggesting that getting a number one rated recruiting class was unimportant. All he has ever said is that these scouts do not have time to watch several thousand athletes in person and therefore we should take it with a grain of salt when a player is rated the 126th best player at his position in the country. You have to admit he has a point. After you get past the top twenty players at a given position you are kind of guessing on the small nuances of difference in the remaining 300 or so players. We have seen the last few years, with regard to Tech recruiting, that there is sometimes a little bit of group think by scouts when it comes to recruits. Some of this is directly related to the SEC hype machine. Simply put, if Alabama offers, the player must be good. If Alabama does not offer, the player must not be quite as good. Some teams in recent years have done an exceptional job of finding good players who were not highly ranked. Utah and Boise State have kind of made a thing out of beating big time college programs while stocking their rosters with recruiting classes that do not even make the top 50 in the nation. Anyway, it is not either or, in my opinion. No one, not even CPJ, is saying recruiting rankings don't matter. Rather we have to recognize that Tech is probably going to be one of those schools that can occasionally get really good recruiting classes that are not actually rated as really good. In this regard one prediction that CPJ made a few years ago has come true. He said, basically, wait until we have a large number of players in our recruiting class and you will see us jump 20 places or so in the rankings." He was right. [/QUOTE]
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