Quote Originally Posted by Political Hack View Post
Even Nick the Mesiah Saban has never seen a true freshman play a college football game before his first game. That's not really a realistic position to suggest someone can't know what to expect from a freshman because they've never played. There's no other way to predict it other than to predict it. In all honestly, a lot of our fans have seen these kids in high school live WAY more than our coaches can. They just can't make every home high school game in the state. I know a lot of guys that pegged high school kids way more correctly than college coaches. And the ones I trust, I would tell people about on the boards. I got ridiculed out the Ying yang when I said BMac would be a better LB than CJ Johnson. Absolutely blasted... How'd that work out?
The debate hasn't really been about seeing the players first game as much saying a certain player is better without ever seeing him compete against college players. Like our coaches have been able to do all during fall camp. That's the issue. How can you or anyone make an informed opinion that a true freshman is better than what is playing without seeing that competition during practice this fall. And you know as well as I do you don't see very many freshman safety's come in and start right off the bat. Jamal Adams didn't last year and only really started contributing mid way through the season. And he was more talented and polished than the players we signed.

It's not about if they will end up being great players it's an uninformed opinion that they are already better than what is playing. We can't possibly know that right now.