Re: Recruiting: What changed for 2018 vs. 2017?
I find that really interesting because it's happening at the same time comments like this are being madeThe new hires have suggested Saban be quicker when pulling the trigger and offering a guy. This probably pushes the evaluation period up 6 months earlier than Alabama has previously done, but it will pay off in the end.
Phil Savage explains why so many of Alabama's 5-star recruits get drafted in first round
Is pushing the time table going to impact our ability to evaluate? or is it just changing the timing/process slightly?"It's evaluation, then it's development, and then they play schemes that are easily transferable for the NFL scouts to walk out of that building or off that practice field and see those players doing things that they will be required to do at the NFL level," Savage said on Thursday. "Those are really the three reasons why they have had so much success in the draft."Savage, a Crimson Tide radio analyst, explained that college football is 10 percent evaluation and 90 recruiting, while the NFL is 90 percent evaluation and 10 percent recruiting.
At Alabama, it is different.
"Alabama has at least a 50-50 split," he said. "They truly evaluate these guys. They don't just go off some list or magazine and say, 'Oh, we got another 5-star.'"
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