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<blockquote data-quote="BrewingFrog" data-source="post: 2753070" data-attributes="member: 28"><p>Limp, I will politely disagree. What we have is <em>potential</em>, which you well know does not necessarily blossom into results. Boykin was a fine talent, and he certainly blossomed in the Meach/Cumbie system. It also helped mightily that he had a special talent at receiver in Doctson, in addition to a very speedy deep threat. I don't hold myself out as some sort of expert on kids talent levels, but I do know that for every Boykin that works out and becomes something special there are a dozen kids that were Big Time recruits with a galaxy of stars that don't develop into diddley-squat.</p><p></p><p>How do you sift through the many promising kids every year and choose the ones that will be workable, or even good? How do you then convince them to sign with you? How do you then train them into the condition and instruct them in the skill sets necessary to excel? There's a lot of variables in there that sometimes get passed over in these discussions. The SR story is a case in point: He would have flamed out just about anywhere. The only question is if other programs would have put up with it for as long as we evidently did.</p><p></p><p>IMHO, the old guys (Bumpas, Winder) were superb judges of not only talent, but character. I believe the current staff may be mesmerized by some things and turning a blind eye to others which may wind up making a kid a bust. As LHCGMFP has noted every February, "It ain't the ones you don't get that kill you, it's the ones you <em>do</em> get that don't work out." For every kid that we sign, there were plenty that were considered that we either passed on or were stacked at that position and didn't offer. How many of those kids would have worked out, blossomed into outstanding players, but were judged wanting a year or more before they would ever see a College practice?</p><p></p><p>"It's tough to make predictions. Especially about the future..."</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BrewingFrog, post: 2753070, member: 28"] Limp, I will politely disagree. What we have is [I]potential[/I], which you well know does not necessarily blossom into results. Boykin was a fine talent, and he certainly blossomed in the Meach/Cumbie system. It also helped mightily that he had a special talent at receiver in Doctson, in addition to a very speedy deep threat. I don't hold myself out as some sort of expert on kids talent levels, but I do know that for every Boykin that works out and becomes something special there are a dozen kids that were Big Time recruits with a galaxy of stars that don't develop into diddley-squat. How do you sift through the many promising kids every year and choose the ones that will be workable, or even good? How do you then convince them to sign with you? How do you then train them into the condition and instruct them in the skill sets necessary to excel? There's a lot of variables in there that sometimes get passed over in these discussions. The SR story is a case in point: He would have flamed out just about anywhere. The only question is if other programs would have put up with it for as long as we evidently did. IMHO, the old guys (Bumpas, Winder) were superb judges of not only talent, but character. I believe the current staff may be mesmerized by some things and turning a blind eye to others which may wind up making a kid a bust. As LHCGMFP has noted every February, "It ain't the ones you don't get that kill you, it's the ones you [I]do[/I] get that don't work out." For every kid that we sign, there were plenty that were considered that we either passed on or were stacked at that position and didn't offer. How many of those kids would have worked out, blossomed into outstanding players, but were judged wanting a year or more before they would ever see a College practice? "It's tough to make predictions. Especially about the future..." [/QUOTE]
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