What one statement best describes the 09 class?

[GopherHole Staff]

What one statement best describes the 09 class?

 

[Schnoodler]

Other, All of the above.

 

[Bayfieldgopher]

Signed.

We will know the rest in another year or two.

 

[Maximus]

Stunning he didn't lose any recruits after the coords. left. Stunning that in this market, 5 of the top 6 kids in the state are Gophers. Stunning how he could get a kid to switch just a month after he went on national television to declare for someone else.

The ranking may not be top 20....but Brew certainly didn't hurt his recruiting reputation with those that follow college recruiting.

 

[Goldy74s]

Unproven.

 

[Tater]

No sh*t Sherlock

Unproven.

Wonderful insight! That's like describing the recruiting class as being "human beings."

I'll describe the class as short on superstar recruits but very good at addressing current needs/holes. My biggest concern is the lack of a D-line stud recruit or two. I'm impressed the most by the OL recruits coming in and the addition of a big time receiver recruit.

 

[Goldy74s]

Wonderful insight! That's like describing the recruiting class as being "human beings."

I'll describe the class as short on superstar recruits but very good at addressing current needs/holes. My biggest concern is the lack of a D-line stud recruit or two. I'm impressed the most by the OL recruits coming in and the addition of a big time receiver recruit.

And you have seen them play against BCS talent? Oh, it does not matter.

 

[Handsome Pete]

Unproven.

Your sentence is missing a subject and predicate. You should go back to fouth grade. It's possible, even for fat middle-aged men without jobs. Just look at Billy Madison.

 

[Schnoodler]

Once again the idiot takes a positive post and craps in it.

 

[Goldy74s]

Your sentence is missing a subject and predicate. You should go back to fouth grade. It's possible, even for fat middle-aged men without jobs. Just look at Billy Madison.

What one word?


And actually, "unproven" should not be so threatening to adults.

 

[grunkiejr]

Unproven.

Our recruits are as unproven as every other schools recruits. Maybe we should just ignore them and they'll go away.

 

[50PoundHead]

Solid.

 

[Tater]

And you have seen them play against BCS talent? Oh, it does not matter.

You mean they haven't? Brewster recruited kids that haven't played college games against BCS teams yet? What the hell is he doing!? From now on he should only recruit players from high schools that have played exhibition games against BCS schools. Great idea! Then we'll know for sure how great they are! I'm pretty sure we all know that recruits are "unproven." Great job.

Sorry to everyone else for responding to trolls. I'll stop now. We should all remember not to argue with morons. They'll drag you down to their level and beat you with experience.

 

[Goldy74s]

There really isn't that much else to say about recruits. Sorry, hard to build a job around that reality, but that is the way recruits are, unproven.

 

[Maximus]

Sorry, hard to build a job around that reality, but that is the way recruits are, unproven.

I don't get it.

 

[ORGopher]

A few years away from really knowing anything.

 

[Goldy74s]

The "Sport Industry"

There is the semi legitimate "professional sports industry". NFL, NBA, etc, etc. Thousands of people in America alone. Not millions.

Then there are all the "hangers on". The nearly unbelievable number of nearly no talent people who earn their wages off inventing the need for a "seven hour pre game show", 200 sport networks, talk sport radio (Chad Hartman), "recruiting experts", etc., etc., etc., etc. Literally, more than one million people.

My comment was that if the peasant class could not be convinced that "Fantasy Football Recruiting" rankings were real, there would be no market for those "jobs". You can not 'sell' something that is not perceived to be very real.

Just my two cents on a make believe industry that some people want to believe in.

 

[harrys ghost]

There is the semi legitimate "professional sports industry". NFL, NBA, etc, etc. Thousands of people in America alone. Not millions.

Then there are all the "hangers on". The nearly unbelievable number of nearly no talent people who earn their wages off inventing the need for a "seven hour pre game show", 200 sport networks, talk sport radio (Chad Hartman), "recruiting experts", etc., etc., etc., etc. Literally, more than one million people.

My comment was that if the peasant class could not be convinced that "Fantasy Football Recruiting" rankings were real, there would be no market for those "jobs". You can not 'sell' something that is not perceived to be very real.

Just my two cents on a make believe industry that some people want to believe in.

Must not believe in movies either.

 

[Jeshurun]

You have to admit the guy has a point. It is an imbecillic point, but a point nonetheless.

 

[Maximus]

There is the semi legitimate "professional sports industry". NFL, NBA, etc, etc. Thousands of people in America alone. Not millions.

Then there are all the "hangers on". The nearly unbelievable number of nearly no talent people who earn their wages off inventing the need for a "seven hour pre game show", 200 sport networks, talk sport radio (Chad Hartman), "recruiting experts", etc., etc., etc., etc. Literally, more than one million people.

My comment was that if the peasant class could not be convinced that "Fantasy Football Recruiting" rankings were real, there would be no market for those "jobs". You can not 'sell' something that is not perceived to be very real.

Just my two cents on a make believe industry that some people want to believe in.

Thank God we have places like the Gopherhole so we can live in reality. 166 posts later....you're a better man for it.

 

[GoAUpher]

There is the semi legitimate "professional sports industry". NFL, NBA, etc, etc. Thousands of people in America alone. Not millions.

Then there are all the "hangers on". The nearly unbelievable number of nearly no talent people who earn their wages off inventing the need for a "seven hour pre game show", 200 sport networks, talk sport radio (Chad Hartman), "recruiting experts", etc., etc., etc., etc. Literally, more than one million people.

My comment was that if the peasant class could not be convinced that "Fantasy Football Recruiting" rankings were real, there would be no market for those "jobs". You can not 'sell' something that is not perceived to be very real.

Just my two cents on a make believe industry that some people want to believe in.

Agree for the most part. There is plenty of hot air and nonsense that surround sports. Politics is the same way with the 24 hr newsday. I've been waiting for you to make a point like this (since you've been hinting at this thought throughout you past 20 rants on recruiting). I understand you think think all recruiting rankings are hogwash peddled by, I believe "pizza salesmen" was your term. Fair enough. Thats opinion and you're entitled to it. I'd even agree that the system is rigged in favor of power schools and players without a publicist can easily be overlooked. But then you start making wild claims that this pizza sauce covered BS is so worthless that it cannot be looked at as a predictor of success. And this is where you start pretending that only you understand the capital T truth while we peasants are stranded in a cave watching shadows on a wall (bonus points to those who get the reference). If only we would listen you could free us and we too would understand.

Guess what Sherlock. While not completely accurate predicters of a player's future performance or a team's future performance the ranking systems do a decent job of giving a general sense to the level of talent a team is bringing in. Anyone who takes the stars or RR #'s as gospel is in for a rude awakening. But you spend your whole day typing out semi-intelligble rants when the majority of posters view the rankings as a completely subjective tool that does an OK job of grading the overall level of talent of a recruiting class.

So keep up the good fight! Keep screaming about voodoo decimals and the magical fairy dust that has blinded us peons. We meanwhile will keep laughing at you.

 

[re3886]

Unproven....really?

Are you sure these aren't people who have been kicked out of school before and came back with new names....wait a min...Why does that sound familiar, in a Loony sort of way?

 

[cduff]

Stunning he didn't lose any recruits after the coords. left. Stunning that in this market, 5 of the top 6 kids in the state are Gophers. Stunning how he could get a kid to switch just a month after he went on national television to declare for someone else.

The ranking may not be top 20....but Brew certainly didn't hurt his recruiting reputation with those that follow college recruiting.

I have to agree with the market comment. I was listening to KFAN yesterday on my way into work, and they were going through the sports headlines. They got to.. "and today is national signing day, when high school football players sign their letters of intent for college". One of the guys (not sure who) replied with "So?" Everyone laughed, that was the end of the story, and they moved on to the next one.

It's sad that half of our battle is just to prove that the program is releveant. None of the other Gopher sports teams fight this, just football. I hope people's attitdue changes after a few games in the new stadium.

 

[RodentRampage]

The recruits are unproven, however this is not relevant. They could be better or worse than expected. It would be only relevant if it were impossible to estimate recruits potential with even the slightest degree of accuracy. If that were true, we couldn't tell the difference between a highly recruited athlete who goes to Southern Cal and one that goes to Crookston. It would mean that coaches are utterly wasting their time engaging in recruiting at all. There would be no difference between the #1 recruiting class and the #119 recruiting class.

It is of course possible that the Crookston recruit was an undiscovered gem, who could have been a star at Southern Cal. It's also possible that the Southern Cal recruit could be a bust who should have gone to Crookston. It's possible, but not very likely.

 

[Schnoodler]

74's logic is completly ill. He's got one piece of the puzzle and thinks he's got the whole picture. He's already laquered it and framed it and hung it on his wall.