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The Power Five => Big Ten => Topic started by: ELA on July 05, 2018, 08:29:46 AM
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I don't get alternate uniforms at all, they seem like long term brand weakening in the name of short term gains.
While I don't think many of us enjoy the recruiting circus, I think there is some value there, and it gives us something to talk about in the offseason. I think for the players it's also *probably* a good thing. You'll always have late bloomers, but I don't think you see guys slip through the cracks nearly as often. I do wonder the impact it's hard on roster decisions of coaches though. I'm sure they'd all like to believe they can make their own evaluations, but we are all subject to biases, and when you review film knowing PLayer A is a 5 star and Player B is a 3 star, I wonder how often your brain allows you to see anything else. That probably extends to decisions made on campus too.
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two things I dislike
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3rd option: NEITHER
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I vote none of the above as well, but hard to deny the impact of recruiting coverage. It is so much larger than the cottage industry it used to be when Bobby Burton was such a one man band. In my prior life when I covered this stuff along with some others at a publication, Burton wasn't the only guy doing it (Dave Campbell in Texas has always been the Texas HS guy, even if he wasn't all about recruiting), but Burton was 'the' guy. I'm pretty sure he later helped start Rivals (which he sold to Yahoo?) Every reporter in Nebraska had his number. (nascent days of cell phones and early email days). We would just call him about guys that Nebraska was offering, or looking at, he was good dude. I'm sure he's way past taking calls from reporters.
There was a syndicated radio show I stumbled upon driving (I'm pretty sure it was based in Nashville) that talked college football recruiting , they had a couple of people who covered it, at least in the southeast. Otherwise you had to work your arse off to follow it. Street and Smith's had a page or two each season in its annual season preview.
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I always thought Lemming was the pioneer on recruiting coverage.
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I vote none of the above as well, but hard to deny the impact of recruiting coverage. It is so much larger than the cottage industry it used to be when Bobby Burton was such a one man band. In my prior life when I covered this stuff along with some others at a publication, Burton wasn't the only guy doing it (Dave Campbell in Texas has always been the Texas HS guy, even if he wasn't all about recruiting), but Burton was 'the' guy. I'm pretty sure he later helped start Rivals (which he sold to Yahoo?) Every reporter in Nebraska had his number. (nascent days of cell phones and early email days). We would just call him about guys that Nebraska was offering, or looking at, he was good dude. I'm sure he's way past taking calls from reporters.
There was a syndicated radio show I stumbled upon driving (I'm pretty sure it was based in Nashville) that talked college football recruiting , they had a couple of people who covered it, at least in the southeast. Otherwise you had to work your arse off to follow it. Street and Smith's had a page or two each season in its annual season preview.
I remember Athlon used to devote like 10 pages to it. It was basically a list of the top 250 guys and where they had already signed, and then like 500 or so unranked juniors to keep an eye on
https://www.houstonchronicle.com/sports/harvey/article/Burton-among-those-turning-recruiting-into-big-4569147.php
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I always thought Lemming was the pioneer on recruiting coverage.
That's a name I couldn't remember. Right, he was another dude.