A comment:
True, Puke can probably recruit NFL pure drop-back passers for QB then we can.
So what? We don't use such players in our O, as many of you have probably noticed. Further, we can also get really good QBs who fit our system - Thomas and (yes) Tevin - more easily because the Pukes of the world aren't recruiting them to play the position. This is a wash, as far as I can see. The only QB we have lost out on in recent years that probably could have been pretty good in our system but left is Llewelyn. As to other O positions, the same thing goes. our AB recruits are often as fast as TBs, but are usually smaller and are recruited as DBs, not runners. We actually recruit real FBs from high school and then let them run instead of fattening them up to be extra OGs in the backfield (Brendan Douglas take note; blubber is in your future). The OLs are not always NFL prototypes either, though we get pretty good ones (the pros recast every OL they draft anyhow).
In short, the recruiting advantages and (supposed) disadvantages we have in the present O are part of the package. And that, I might add, is probably why we so consistently outperform our "star" ratings. And why we suddenly find ourselves in the unenviable position of having our recruits trolled by other teams; i.e. we recruit them and, all of a sudden, interest from other schools goes up. (Pretty much the same ones, btw: Stanford, Puke, Wisconsin, Louisville, Cincinnati, Miami, ect.) None of this is a coincidence.
Oh, and I don't think Puke will come close to equalling last year's run.
