Foolish argument that star rankings have NO VALUE. People evaluate these players via games, tape and combines. Can they miss??? Absolutely. BUt to to dis" serious professional evaluations as no value nonsense is stupid.
Im just saying star ratings are more valuable when recruiting hot beds like Florida/texas/GA/Ohio rather than diamond in the rough areas like the northeast.
That was my point in the thread.
Your 100 percent correct. They rarely go by them if ever. But it does make sense as we start looking for better kids that these kids are rated higher. Our two lb we really like just happened to be 4* guys but in my opinion the best lb we got was the Canadian kid who was only a 3*. Take kids like that all day. I do wanna fight big dogs for prospects though and not immediately lose a qb to Clemson or Ped state. As we keep chasing better and better kids our rating will improve even though coaches aren’t looking at that.
In press conferences, HCDB has said they don't even look at those evaluations. (Have to assume they deem them unreliable)
Interesting comments. Don’t see the Dome looking old and dirty. I think it did 10-15 years ago when the old Astro turf was aging and was lined for 4 sports. And when the tartan surface under the turf was exposed for basketball games and looked kind of dirty.
I think that's fair. I do think the Dome looks a little dingy. Lack of attendance, with more grey never helped. Some banners look old-maybe just a lack of color. Be nice to see those walls that are always exposed, to have some color, or something, so it looks less like an unfinished basement, and more like a modern stadium .
Agree, the banners for bowl games, the retired jerseys and championship teams look like a bizarre mix. Lots of different sizes and colors, no consistency, no attention to detail. It could be done so much better and a lot of it could address the vast expances of bare concrete on interior walls. I hope this gets addressed soon. The goal should be no bare concrete walls anywhere in the Dome. Either use it for banners or paint it orange.
Cooper Dawson chose us over Clemson (yes, more to it).
It was pointed out in an earlier post. Most players in the northeast don't play year round. In New York they play shorter seasons and don't have spring practice. Somebody on here did the math once and it came out to something like 15 fewer games over the the course of a high school career along with all of the associated practices. Because of that, there are more kids that are less of a finished product but that doesn't mean that they are less athletic than southern players. It's why Chandler Jones was a 2 star recruit that became a 1st round draft pick after his junior year and is an NFL all pro.
Yep, they're scared all right.
Great post and so very true. The coaching here compared to down there is miles apart. When we were at cs u can’t take the dline over to the bench to talk to them cause they are now on oline. My friends son played for clay in Florida last year and when they were done on o u run to the bench and rewatch everything that just happened with the oline coach and each position did same thing. Technically we vastly far behind also. I think most we ever played was 9 games. They have spring ball summer camps and it’s all mandatory. It’s a way of life. Wish we had that here.
It explains why we are behind, but I'm glad we don't have it. All kinds of studies are showing that the professionalization of youth athletes, year round sports and the increased use of personal coaches, is unhealthy for kids. It's leading to increased rates of physical, mental, and emotional burnout. Dr. James Andrews wrote a book about it. He talked about the increased rate of injuries he was seeing in youth athletes and how many more surgeries he was doing on kids the last 10 or so years of his surgical career. He recommended that athletes not specialize in one sport until their senior year of high school and throwing athletes should take 3-4 months of every year and not throw anything. That's not a popular view in our culture, but, if we really cared about the health of our kids, it's one we should listen to.
My wife went to a small high school in North Carolina. She said PE was similar in that whatever sport season was taking place determined what the class did in PE. I am a sports fan, but I hate how sports and our distorted perspective for its importance seems to be taking over everything, especially academia.
Let's hire an interior decorator to have a quality consistent look inside the Dome to improve the aesthetic.
Yeah Mikey played center for them. Near Jacksonville I believe. P.s also the best southern bbque I have had was the back side of downtown Jacksonville in a little silver trailer. I ate there every day for a week. Great older couple but can’t remember their or it’s name.
I would love that
That’s really cool! I went to High school in Clay (but not clay high) Football is religion down here, the food truck scene down here with BBQ and seafood is amazing as well
