(12-20-2017 10:30 AM)hapapp Wrote:  

(12-20-2017 10:20 AM)stAte_3 Wrote:  Everyone always thinks it’s a good day, but you just never know.

This. Its what they do once they get where they are going.

Its a numbers game not every two star is going to be a back up and not every high three+ star is going to be a four year starter. It is finding the 11 starters on each side of the ball out of a pool of higher ranked kids vs lower ones. Your chances of finding playmakers out of a pool of higher ranked talent is much higher than walk ons.. that is not a debate. AL signs a bunch of players that could start at just about any other FBS team in the country that never see the field because they signed four or five kids just like them the three years before and will the next three years. Being able to sort through a pile of four and five star kids is why they have dominated since Saban has been there. Not making the field as a four star at AL does not mean you were a bust it just means the three or four other four and five star kids they signed were just better. It is all relative and applies at any level of the FBS. It is a game played by humans so nothing is one for one with rankings but the correlation is there on the macro level. Saban is not winning a NC with Vandy talent but he can win an NC at Vandy with AL talent.

Hope the entire Sun Belt does well and we can start closing the gap on the rest of the G5.