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<blockquote data-quote="Bruce Wayne" data-source="post: 132704" data-attributes="member: 231"><p>I agree [USER=959]@MidtownJacket[/USER]. </p><p></p><p>I remember there is/was a radio show on Tech sports that the publisher from Scout for GT, Jonathan Leifheit, co-hosted. Every year when he covered recruiting he would tell the listeners to treat the stars assigned <em>by his website</em> with a huge grain of salt. He seriously downplayed them all the time. Yet, there are always a slew of Tech fans carrying the water for these recruiting site evaluations. That is the only thing that makes me even discuss my opinions on the star system; namely, its utter irrelevance to a fan of GTFB. I actually think Tech fans who want to stay informed should go ahead and join the pay sites , they would surely be additional ways to feed the addiction of fandom. But as the publisher of one said, there is no reason to care about evaluations and rankings.</p><p></p><p>Also, I think it is extremely reasonable for a evaluator for some online recruiting site to follow and use the evaluation of Saban's staff at Bama as his primary guide to talent in the SE, and to OSU in the midwest, etc. Sure, I find this reasonable in part because of human nature and the proclivity towards laziness and cutting corners we are all prone to. But it is not simply pessimism. It also just makes sense for a talent evaluator to do so because a) it saves them time and expense and b) is likely to prove extremely accurate.</p><p></p><p>Why b? Because: 1) Alabama has a deep-pocketed and very tuned in and active network of bagmen which puts them in play for the full range of talent; 2) Bama has no compunction about admitting the comatose and criminal which means they <em>only </em>have to evaluate athletic talent, which is all the pay site cares about; 3) they ruthlessly exploit football talent by oversigning and dismissing, hence they will go after <em>all </em>of the most talented players they spot, thus cluing the scout into those kids; 4) factories often pay their assistants incentives for landing 4/5 star recruits, so there are good chances at kickbacks that the scout can receive from that program or it's assistant coaches.</p><p></p><p>Sure, some of my factors assume the possibility of a <em>lack of ethical conduct</em> by an online talent evaluator. But I will make my stand in defense of pessimism on concupiscent human nature itself, as well as the likely low-pay of this kind of career.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Bruce Wayne, post: 132704, member: 231"] I agree [USER=959]@MidtownJacket[/USER]. I remember there is/was a radio show on Tech sports that the publisher from Scout for GT, Jonathan Leifheit, co-hosted. Every year when he covered recruiting he would tell the listeners to treat the stars assigned [I]by his website[/I] with a huge grain of salt. He seriously downplayed them all the time. Yet, there are always a slew of Tech fans carrying the water for these recruiting site evaluations. That is the only thing that makes me even discuss my opinions on the star system; namely, its utter irrelevance to a fan of GTFB. I actually think Tech fans who want to stay informed should go ahead and join the pay sites , they would surely be additional ways to feed the addiction of fandom. But as the publisher of one said, there is no reason to care about evaluations and rankings. Also, I think it is extremely reasonable for a evaluator for some online recruiting site to follow and use the evaluation of Saban's staff at Bama as his primary guide to talent in the SE, and to OSU in the midwest, etc. Sure, I find this reasonable in part because of human nature and the proclivity towards laziness and cutting corners we are all prone to. But it is not simply pessimism. It also just makes sense for a talent evaluator to do so because a) it saves them time and expense and b) is likely to prove extremely accurate. Why b? Because: 1) Alabama has a deep-pocketed and very tuned in and active network of bagmen which puts them in play for the full range of talent; 2) Bama has no compunction about admitting the comatose and criminal which means they [I]only [/I]have to evaluate athletic talent, which is all the pay site cares about; 3) they ruthlessly exploit football talent by oversigning and dismissing, hence they will go after [I]all [/I]of the most talented players they spot, thus cluing the scout into those kids; 4) factories often pay their assistants incentives for landing 4/5 star recruits, so there are good chances at kickbacks that the scout can receive from that program or it's assistant coaches. Sure, some of my factors assume the possibility of a [I]lack of ethical conduct[/I] by an online talent evaluator. But I will make my stand in defense of pessimism on concupiscent human nature itself, as well as the likely low-pay of this kind of career. [/QUOTE]
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