celticdb15
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Check out this story i just found on draftdaddy. How ridiculous!!
South Florida Sun-Sentinel: Burned by Web hype, recruiters go with gut.
DD.comment: It's surprising that Miami's recruiting coordinator was candid enough to say they based much of their recruiting on Net recruiting sites. We've had a theory that too much reliance on the "star-ratings", by the traditional powers, has really helped some formerly sad-sack programs: While the Miami's of the world chase after recruits that get lofty ratings from a solitary person sitting in cubicle, who has never seen them play in person, programs like Vanderbilt, Stanford, Baylor, Northwestern, Connecticut, Boise State and Minnesota, that were going nowhere fast, went out and got a bunch of 2-star guys that were/are productive, hard <A style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 2px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: -2px; : http://s.adbrite.com/mb/s/green-double-underline-006600.gif repeat-x 50% bottom; COLOR: #006600; CURSOR: pointer; TEXT-DECORATION: none" id=AdBriteInlineAd_working name=AdBriteInlineAd_working target=_top keyword="working" display="inline">working</A> and absolute terrors on the football field.
South Florida Sun-Sentinel: Burned by Web hype, recruiters go with gut.
DD.comment: It's surprising that Miami's recruiting coordinator was candid enough to say they based much of their recruiting on Net recruiting sites. We've had a theory that too much reliance on the "star-ratings", by the traditional powers, has really helped some formerly sad-sack programs: While the Miami's of the world chase after recruits that get lofty ratings from a solitary person sitting in cubicle, who has never seen them play in person, programs like Vanderbilt, Stanford, Baylor, Northwestern, Connecticut, Boise State and Minnesota, that were going nowhere fast, went out and got a bunch of 2-star guys that were/are productive, hard <A style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 2px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: -2px; : http://s.adbrite.com/mb/s/green-double-underline-006600.gif repeat-x 50% bottom; COLOR: #006600; CURSOR: pointer; TEXT-DECORATION: none" id=AdBriteInlineAd_working name=AdBriteInlineAd_working target=_top keyword="working" display="inline">working</A> and absolute terrors on the football field.