What we've learned: If a guy does not pan out, it just wasn't in the STARS for him to do so, heehe. Sorry could not resist the cormn pun.
The way I look at is exactly what ChucK Amato said: "There's plenty of good players out there for everybody, it's just what you do with them, when you get them there". I believe that. And like I've always looked at is like many of you have pointed out, the evaluations between a recruiting analyst compared to those of a real analyst (the coaches) vary widely.
One observation that I'll make is that I've seen it on here before. We beat out Southern Miss and Miss State, Memphis and Slippery Rock for this guy, heck he's gotta be mediocre at best. I've seen guys at Memphis that I'd like to have, Southern Miss, etc., but like many others because he was not ranked (starstruck as I like to say) so high coming out, I really did not think about it him not inking until 2 or 3 years later when his making plays against us. And then you say, yeah that's that NR guy that was offered by USF and Southern Miss only. It's vey funny to see, and you hear rumors about programs jumping on the bandwagon of other programs, i.e. Miami, Oklahoma, FSU have all offered heck he must be the next H Walker, we better offer too. Point being, don't get caught up in who we supposedly beat out for a guy, it does not mean that the big programs did not want him, but there's only so many slots (the Bryant days are over when UA had more athletes on the sideline than AU had on the field) and needs here and there that must be filled by each program and the 5 star said yes before you did, too bad, or we'll take our offer back now that Jason Jack wants to ink. Yeah I'm sure there's a little 'dang, I wish we had offered that guy 2 years ago instead of this decoration piece'.
The way I look at is exactly what ChucK Amato said: "There's plenty of good players out there for everybody, it's just what you do with them, when you get them there". I believe that. And like I've always looked at is like many of you have pointed out, the evaluations between a recruiting analyst compared to those of a real analyst (the coaches) vary widely.
One observation that I'll make is that I've seen it on here before. We beat out Southern Miss and Miss State, Memphis and Slippery Rock for this guy, heck he's gotta be mediocre at best. I've seen guys at Memphis that I'd like to have, Southern Miss, etc., but like many others because he was not ranked (starstruck as I like to say) so high coming out, I really did not think about it him not inking until 2 or 3 years later when his making plays against us. And then you say, yeah that's that NR guy that was offered by USF and Southern Miss only. It's vey funny to see, and you hear rumors about programs jumping on the bandwagon of other programs, i.e. Miami, Oklahoma, FSU have all offered heck he must be the next H Walker, we better offer too. Point being, don't get caught up in who we supposedly beat out for a guy, it does not mean that the big programs did not want him, but there's only so many slots (the Bryant days are over when UA had more athletes on the sideline than AU had on the field) and needs here and there that must be filled by each program and the 5 star said yes before you did, too bad, or we'll take our offer back now that Jason Jack wants to ink. Yeah I'm sure there's a little 'dang, I wish we had offered that guy 2 years ago instead of this decoration piece'.
