The red flags were there. Neither progressed up their respective depth charts, Davis got passed by a true frosh in Sellers and if you sniffed around those fan bases, there wasn’t much care that those 2 were transferring. Unlike a guy like Zeed that the UGA fans were upset about due to his upside.
It wasn't just one person. And the people that tried to point out the stars don't matter once you fail at your first spot got shouted down.
These two were wayyy overrated. Neither had a good skill set. Not sure how the so called experts missed so badly when rating them. That’s why I don’t take the ratings very seriously they’re often wrong
CDRW was ESPN top 100. That's a huge miss by the Gurus
If you go back there are so many rating misses. Similar to the current nfl qb evaluation, it is like flipping a coin.
Massive ! Just because a kid has measurables doesn’t make him a great player. I’m sure he had the same shortcomings in HS
I think it can be hard to tell with some QBs. If he so physically dominated high school competition he may never have had to make quick reads or fit throws into tight spaces or feel a pass rush. That's why you stock pile QBs and discard those that don't live up to the hype. But when a guy is bad at his first college stop and transfers, the high school ratings go out the window. You have to look deeper. Was the guy a player but didn't fit the style of a new staff (Shrader)? Did a guy produce but get screwed by a dumb staff (McCord)? Did a really good guy with big upside get beat out by elite competition (Burrows)? Was a guy underrated but killed it at a lower level and show ability that could translate to a higher level (Ward)?
Well you would think three guys from the SEC that were all highly rated would equal that.
HS ratings are all payola bull crap
Had they been guys that all narrowly lost a QB competition to a stud we could've concluded that. The two duds didn't fit that description and that was pointed out by people. People with orange colored glasses didn't want to hear it.
CDRW had a pretty live arm on film, he just didn’t progress up their depth chart. But I could get the excitement around him because we were QB recruit starved and he was a heavily recruited QB out of high school.
Football history is littered with QBs with great arms that amounted to little. I would think football junkies would know that and think to temper enthusiasm a little when noticing he couldn't climb a depth chart of a team with only ok QBs. Or at least when level headed people point out that side of the discussion they could say, "Good point, even if disagree with you." Instead of some version of, "Shut up. You're an idiot. He's a SEC 4 star."
CD-RW brought a jolt of energy when he came in vs ND, and we never really saw that guy again. He looked worthy of the hype then.
Yeah like I said I understood it with CDRW.
