Dave bartoo's contenders

[gravedigger]

unnderrated in state players, quality QB development, and maybe most of the fact that JUCO players are objectively ranked lower, due to their potential of only giving 2 years of production. So guys like Sweat, Guidry, Abram, Cole, Rivers, etc had their recruiting ranking artificially lowered out of JUCO not because of their talent but because they were JUCO.

Your right though, doing it right would require a lot more work.

And your comments above are why recruiting rankings are just not reliable. People always point to Bama and Ohio State as an example of recruiting class accuracy and discount the VAST majority of mid ranked teams who have legitimate players who didnt have the luxury of a ranking based on offers from Saban and Meyer.

I dont have a problem with any of the preseason predictions or the recruiting rankings because I know they are simply propaganda for large fanbases and always have been. Bartoo selecting Tennessee is just flat lazyness. LSU is the same. Anyone who watched their spring game could clearly see that Orgeron is struggling to find an identity for his offense and they also have a good amount of talent. But a recruiting ranking isnt going to go very far for them this year.

Florida will be pretty good defensively, but the offense is going to struggle getting used to Mullen's system.

Florida State and ND may very well be good, but they shouldnt either be picked over us on a neutral site.

We didnt pick a guy with automatic national credibility to lead our program. We picked the next great coach who hasnt established himself and that is perfectly fine with me.

I just dont understand how Bartoo and others can discount our team experience and the fact that we won a big bowl game with only an assistant coach and a backup qb against a very potent offense.