re: Hogs 2020 Schedule

The recruiting rankings are for the fans and not for the coaches. Bobby Bowden used internet recruiting sites when it started becoming popular in the early 2000s. His later FSU teams started declining to the point they went 6-6 in his last year. He said that was a big mistake because he didn't use his own evaluations.

The United States has a population of 330 million. Plenty of talent if a coach is willing to work hard to find them in this country. If you make excuses then we should have no point of even playing if hog fans have such an inferiority complex.

Frank Broyles, Ken Hatfield, Lou Holtz didn't bitch and moan a bout recruiting rankings because it didn't exist during those eras. Those coaches didn't need someone to tell them they had good or no talent. They knew what they had. Bobby didn't have so called good classes but he won 10 and 11 games. Hell even the Nuttster went 10-4 and were picked last in the west and he didn't care for them either.

I had a discussion with my uncle who is now a retired football coach. He said the gaps between Arkansas, Alabama and Arkansas state isn't much in talent. Upsets are becoming more common with these matchups. But what separates these teams are large areas of depth. Alabama has a talent advantage but the bigger gap is depth.

We didn't lose to North Texas or San Jose State because of talent. We lost because we had the worst coaching since the Otis Douglas years of 1950-1952.