Just refuting something over and over and telling lies about what I said does not make it any truer because you say it.
Well, I will never be convinced that recruiting kids that need special development will somehow become greater athletes than their counterparts at championship level B!G schools. I am grateful that Jerry Kill has not called this a great recruiting class. I think he would say it needs to be better to truly compete in our conference. The media has ranked Minnesota last or near last in recruiting this year and for our chances of winning the B!G. So, if I were to challenge the status of the virtual Delphi group that ordained the Goophies to come in last, I would be a bit naive. I won't challenge their opinion. I agree with it for the reasons I already have stated: low recruiting scores, longer development time, lag, lag, lag our peers. I also think too many Gopher fans, like yourself, have a penchant for magical thinking, and will continue to deny simple facts -- like thinking an unranked recruit in June is somehow something more than a diamond in the rough. Not every diamond is worthy of being sold for their flaws. The same with trying to sell me that all these gems are worth buying into for their clarity, color and carets. They all lack top strength, speed, or endurance. They all lack refined football skills to some degree or another to be considered lesser football players than the hundreds of others that were available and were picked up by other schools in the BCS.
According to the BCS officials, all 120 D1 schools are BCS, not just the top 6 conferences (wink, wink). Of those, Rivals has rankings for 19 categories. So, potentially their could be as many as 1900 players ranked. Although, not all do have that many. But, for our purpose, as biased as it is, I will say our share is 4 of 1900 or a mere .002 of ranked players. If we got a standard amount, we should have packed in a walloping .008 of these guys. So, we compiled 1/4th of our potential. If half of the recruits would not qualify academically for the U, then we are still only getting half our potential. If Rivals only ranked 950 players, we would still only have achieved half our potential. The would have's, should have's, ought to's really have no basis for suggesting our recruits are fabulous. They missed out on potentially 1900 top ranked spots. More cause for alarm. Not less cause.
If we win 5 games this year, instead of my 1 game prediction, I think that would be the top of my potential range of potential wins in a best case scenario. But, you didn't ask if I had a best case scenario. I only offered the worst case scenario. Why did I do that? In the hope that the board would put some pressure on Kill to improve his results. I wanted the board to put some fire under him to perform. Instead, you and others are willing to give him a free pass. Why? We fired Brew because he didn't get a free pass last year. Why give any of our coaches free passes ever? Is Kill proving in recruiting that he deserves a free pass? 4 out of 1900 is far less than 16 out of 16 recruits in their top 100. 16 would be a normal potential of top 1900 players in the BCS. If we only hit on 12, I would be satisfied that the class hit on all cylinders. This class fired on 1 cylinder on a 4 cylinder economy class vehicle. Nothing to crow about here.
