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re: Our recruiters are straight-up embarrassing
Posted on 2/5/20 at 2:24 pm to djsdawg
Posted on 2/5/20 at 2:24 pm to djsdawg
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YOUR revisionist history that uga was a recruiting juggernaut and Spurrier struggled is exactly what I am trying to correct.
It was a lot easier in the 90s to pretty much claim whatever you wanted about recruiting classes... so long as it fit your narrative... Spurrier liked whatever narrative gave him the best chance to land a barbed jab at a rival...
I don't have the time or patience to do it, but would be interesting to cross reference this Google Doc that has all the old recruiting rankings pre-internet era by year, and try to approximate what the kids rankings would have been...
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Example rubric would be looking at last 5 years and taking average rating of positions by their relative rank (ie. on average #1 QB in the country is a .9785, #2 is a .9698, etc...) and then piece together some rankings... probably could be done with some excel magic, and maybe I'll have some time to cobble something together in the future, but suffice it to say, while that jab from Spurrier was funny, it wasn't really based on any empirical data.
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Posted on 2/5/20 at 3:04 pm to fibonaccisquared
Jesus, Mary and Joseph. Fib, you are gonna give me a headache. 
I will admit that yours and djs' reasoning sounds plausible, but I don't think Spurrier made that up out of thin air. Had to be some articles written or something similar in order for him to go there. He had a much more prickly personality back in the day. And I think he was a little sensitive about his recruiting or lack thereof.
As much as everyone likes to call Mullen a lazy recruiter, Spurrier wrote the book on lazy recruiting.
I will admit that yours and djs' reasoning sounds plausible, but I don't think Spurrier made that up out of thin air. Had to be some articles written or something similar in order for him to go there. He had a much more prickly personality back in the day. And I think he was a little sensitive about his recruiting or lack thereof.
As much as everyone likes to call Mullen a lazy recruiter, Spurrier wrote the book on lazy recruiting.
This post was edited on 2/5/20 at 3:05 pm
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