re: 2023 Recruiting

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If it works, it works. I don’t care how he does it. But do you realize how insanely good you’d have to be to find enough diamonds in the rough to compete with Bama/UGAs recruiting? Not a great strategy to use.

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I'm pretty sure that there was an analysis out there that found that Bama/UGA actually did even BETTER than most at evaluating "3-stars". So not only do they sign 5-stars, but when they pick a 3-star to be in their class, they're actually very good at evaluating those players too.

This obviously makes sense as these are elite staffs with elite coaches who also happen to be elite talent evaluators. It's very silly to assume that these schools just randomly pick recruits based off of star rating, while Harsin is going to "do his own evaluation". As if Saban/Kirby and company aren't doing their own evaluations as well.

For example, that white WR from UGA that destroyed us last season was a LOW 3-star. He still somehow made it into UGA's recruiting class in 2020 despite the fact that he was ranked as the #169 WR in the 247 Composite. I'm pretty sure that Vandy was his only other SEC offer. So in that case UGA clearly identified him properly, to the degree that pretty much no one else in the SEC did.