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Message: <blockquote data-quote="dressedcheeseside" data-source="post: 32413" data-attributes="member: 77">It's fine for you and me to use all the resources available to make our minds up on kids, but the services are one of the so-called "experts" in the field.  They are not supposed to do it.  Period.  Your analogy just fell to pieces.  Actually, the services probably do employ some competent evaluators.  They probably get it right, for the most part, with the upper 10 to 15% of recruits.  It's the other 85% where it's a total crap shoot.  Also, they evaluate the quality of kid now, not how they project in the future.  They also don't project them for specific styles of play, like ours, for instance.  Our coaches evaluate based on current factors, but also on how they project 3+ years down the road.  That's why you see coaches excited about lanky guys with "big frames" with room to grow.  Our coaches also evaluate based on how they fit the specific roles they'll play at GT.  Justin Thomas is a huge example of this.  He did not fit qb at Bama but he does fit qb here.  If everybody in the nation ran our offense, he would have been a 5* qb prospect and we never would have sniffed him.</blockquote>

Verification: Who had the game clinching interception in OT against u(sic)GA in 2014?