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[QUOTE="billsin01, post: 693942, member: 837"]
This I absolutely agree with. I think where I disagree is with the general importance people put on "talent " -- at least as defined by general recruiting definition. The idea that we're in better shape with more highly regarded talent is great and I don't disagree that higher end kids will generally yield better results.
 
That said, kids with higher ratings are often deemed better by definition of being more game-ready or projectable in an NFL sense (size/frame combo). In other words it may not be as much a question of pure talent and more a question of polish. Obviously that's a generalization, but the point is guys like Jay Bromley or Derrell Smith or Nate Hemsley or JR Johnson or others are every bit the athlete those other guys are but they either don't necessarily translate to the NFL or they need more work to play at a high level in college.
 
This is a long, long, long way of saying I think you can get plenty of talent with 2-, 3-, or 4-star kids, but what you do with that talent is what matters.
 
So, to me, developing talent and creating quality schemes is every bit as important as recruiting itself, especially since we're unlikely to consistently pull in high-3, 4-star guys.
 
Plus, I still have yet to hear someone explain how our offense went from craptastic to nearly unstopable with many of the same guys in one year. Am I supposed to believe that Marcus Sales and Jerome Smith added [I]that[/I] much and that Nassib just miraculously became 40% better in one off-season? I don't buy that. The drastic change in scheme seems a far more plausible explanation.
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