Dave bartoo's contenders

[ShotgunDawg]

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.

Not to take this conversation into a different direction, but you have just outlined here is the exact problem with analytics in sports & why ultra-analytical professional organizations will never be successful in the long haul. Sure... they can win big in time frames & be fairly consistent, due to likely never making ultra dumb decisions because the analytics in many ways works as a safety net that prevents ultra-dumb decisions.

However, you cannot replace the "eye test" scouting & the best professional/college organizations will ALWAYS be the organizations that can best blend the best attributes of both scouting & analytics. When an organization gets too far to one side, they begin making dumb decisions.