Comments on: YOU’D PROBABLY DO THE SAME THING

By: El Guapo

El Guapo — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 20:55:18 +0000

I’m just afraid we’ve reached a point where coaches have to take rivals and scout seriously because their fans do. I believe Tuberville was fired at Auburn because of the combination of bad season and Saban beating him in recruiting on rivals. Tub didn’t do much worse than usual for him in recruiting but comparatively, Bama did much better. Fans forget that Tub was the master of finding athletic kids from the boonies (that rivals never saw) with talent and turning them into something.

The lesson of Tub (which Chizik is tyring–embarrassingly–not to repeat) is recruiting is the second favorite sport at Auburn behind actual football and ahead of . . . well, whatever is third. Baseball, basketball, swimming, horse riding I don’t know. Recruiting rankings now matter almost as much as wins in whether or not you keep your job.

By: yoyofutbawl

yoyofutbawl — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 20:44:09 +0000

GO GATOR!!!

By: Gen. Stoopnagle

Gen. Stoopnagle — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 20:35:10 +0000

Larry Coker *did* adjust down the difficulty on the gamecube:

UTSA plays their first season in 2010 in I-AA in the Southland Conference.

By: ALGator

ALGator — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 20:26:17 +0000

Irvin Meyers must be a really good coach to take a pack of players that went 8-5 just two seasons prior and turn them into a national champion.

By: Harris

Harris — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 20:15:35 +0000

I thought it was CORCH [redacted]?

By: zzgator

zzgator — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 19:45:57 +0000

#3…is that you Senator Boxer?

By: Zooker

Zooker — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 19:38:25 +0000

That’s COACH [redacted] to you, yoyo.

By: yoyofutbawl

yoyofutbawl — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 19:20:53 +0000

Who’s this Ron Zook guy? He’s supposedly a football coach somewhere?

I’ve never seen his name on this site before. I thought [NAME REDACTED] was the coach at Florida before Meyer.

By: Coop

Coop — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 19:05:32 +0000

While I am somewhat of an apologist for Rivals and Scout, when in reality they are nothing more than a diversion, much like EDSBS, for me to get through the work day…

1) Recruiting rankings are based on potential, and they are making the assumption that the schools that sign these players will develop the talents that they believe these players possess.

2) If Ron Zook did, indeed, just go down the Rivals recruiting rankings and pick and choose then that speaks fairly well for Rivals as Urban Meyer won a national title with a majority of Ron Zook’s players.