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<blockquote data-quote="Coloradojacket" data-source="post: 810129" data-attributes="member: 3070"><p>If you are referring to me, I responded directly to your questions. Do I regard recruiting, sure, but I don't place as much emphasis on it for Georgia Tech. We can not recruit at the level as many schools do to academics and as such have to develop and scheme and coach up. I can give you many examples of players graded at 2 stars that were actually close to high 3s or 4s.</p><p></p><p>We have never recruited a so called 5 star. Calvin Johnson was but they dropped him down when they found out he was going to Tech. This is a common practice among those people that rank players.</p><p></p><p>You asked if you have top 30 recruiting classes should you expect top 30 teams. I said sure if you have top 30 coaches.</p><p>I have a theory and I call it the funnel. You take kids in the 5th through 8th grade and many are trying to decide if they want to play football and are good at it. They may try again in 9th but generally quit if they are not players. In high school you have players but fact is on a team, you may have 2 players that can play at the college level. Size and skill dictate this, along with level of the team they are playing...2A versus 7 A. In college you get one of those two at each school to fill out your 85 man roster. From there to the NFL, it is about 1-2% of all the 128 teams times 85 players that go on. The funnel.</p><p></p><p>Football players are not made. You either can play or not. Once you have a player, it is up to coaches to develop them as they move up. To me the difference between a 2 star and a 5 is an arbitrary view of size, speed, and level of play. Is it exact, no. Georgia had a 5 star QB a few years ago...Eason...loved him there at Georgia. JT5 would probably have been rated a 2 star as a QB. Guess which one I would take.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Coloradojacket, post: 810129, member: 3070"] If you are referring to me, I responded directly to your questions. Do I regard recruiting, sure, but I don't place as much emphasis on it for Georgia Tech. We can not recruit at the level as many schools do to academics and as such have to develop and scheme and coach up. I can give you many examples of players graded at 2 stars that were actually close to high 3s or 4s. We have never recruited a so called 5 star. Calvin Johnson was but they dropped him down when they found out he was going to Tech. This is a common practice among those people that rank players. You asked if you have top 30 recruiting classes should you expect top 30 teams. I said sure if you have top 30 coaches. I have a theory and I call it the funnel. You take kids in the 5th through 8th grade and many are trying to decide if they want to play football and are good at it. They may try again in 9th but generally quit if they are not players. In high school you have players but fact is on a team, you may have 2 players that can play at the college level. Size and skill dictate this, along with level of the team they are playing...2A versus 7 A. In college you get one of those two at each school to fill out your 85 man roster. From there to the NFL, it is about 1-2% of all the 128 teams times 85 players that go on. The funnel. Football players are not made. You either can play or not. Once you have a player, it is up to coaches to develop them as they move up. To me the difference between a 2 star and a 5 is an arbitrary view of size, speed, and level of play. Is it exact, no. Georgia had a 5 star QB a few years ago...Eason...loved him there at Georgia. JT5 would probably have been rated a 2 star as a QB. Guess which one I would take. [/QUOTE]
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