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First, recruiting rankings from pre 2008 were garbage, many players never were evaluated and the talent evaluators were nowhere near as good as they are today.

I was going not just by the recruting rankings, but also by the offers they received. Javier Arenas' only offer besides Bama was FAU. Iowa State was the only D1A program to offer James Carpenter out of HS. Rashad Johnson didn't get an offer from any D1A school. Apparenty the coaching staffs across the country didn't think any higher of them than the 'garbage' recruiting services.

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More importantly though, the NFL drafts talent.

And they miss on a lot of those evaluations, too.

Bottom line, I defy you to find a 2008 pre-season preview of Bama football that says anything about how 'ridiculously talented' they were, outside of Andre Smith, Rolando McClain and their incoming Freshmen ( here's a representative sample). Hell, even the SEC coaches didn't think much of them - they had a whopping 4 All-SEC position players (two 1st team, two 2nd) selected in the preseason. To put that in in perspective, AU had 7 (one 1st, six 2nd). 2008 All-SEC Pre-season

So, yes, I stand by my assertion that 2017 AU, preseason, is more talented than the 2008 Bama team that went 12-0 and fell just short of winning the SECC and playing for the BCSC.

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Posted by GenesChin

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Posted on 5/10/17 at 4:17 pm to FearlessFreep

What you are pointing out is that the preseason predictions were wrong, not pointing out that Bama wasnt talented

We don't know just how talented our team is but it is highly unlikely that 13+ of our starters get drafted like that Bama team With 9+ RD1-2

Also this was before Bama became a juggernaut so this "Bama/Saban bias" was nothing like what it is today and marginal influence at best

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Posted by Tigerman97

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Posted on 5/10/17 at 4:26 pm to FearlessFreep

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So, yes, I stand by my assertion that 2017 AU, preseason, is more talented than the 2008 Bama team that went 12-0 and fell just short of winning the SECC and playing for the BCSC.

So you believe we will have more than 13 players drafted from our team? Your argument hasn't proven they weren't talented, just that they hadn't been given the opportunity to show that talent. I hope you are right. If we have 10 1st-3rd round picks starting for us we will win big. Assuming they aren't all kickers and punters.

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