Oh I agree with you, honestly I don't mind schools that don't get high rated prospects like KU running a spread. If you are a major university that is basically a farm system for the NFL your hurting yourself by running the spread. The more NFL players/prospects you have the better that is for recruiting. You have teams like OU using an offense that is custom designed for teams with less talent to compete.

My argument to support college teams developing players would be that if you want the best recruits you can get develope them and help them achieve their NFL dream. Al Groh is an example. If I played defense or OLine i'm going to Virgina. He gets his players drafted.

it's sad that i actually don't enjoy the football talk on here much anymore.

Nature of the beast I guess, OKlahoma gets top of the line players at certain positions but honestly they've had a hard time landing top level QB's and skill position players outside of RB. Plus they're always slow....

They'd probably hit you with the "we don't get what SC or Florida gets"

ROFL, I sat through the poop threads waiting for real football talk all offseason. Now that the draft is close enough people are taking it serious I didn't get any work done today.


How do you compete with the recruitment tool of beaches and nice weather. Really I don't follow college recruiting at all. I only care about the players once they're at the schools and start playing. Is it that OU focuses on other positions with an emphasise on RB's, or that they just can't land big name QB's and skill positions? Or are there just not enough top of the line Texas kids to go around for the Big 12?

It has to do with their main recruiting base being Texas and here lately the Texas kids haven't been nearly as good as the Cali or Florida kids. Plus Texas is much tougher competition in recruiting than SC ever faces out in Cali or Florida is seeing right now.

Just take into account Sam Bradford was a 3 star recruit from Oklahoma.

I figured as much. Throw into it that USC and Florida now always seem to be championship contenders and guys want to win and if you go to USC you get the added bonus of a pro scheme.

The spread has made 3 star kids like Bradford and McCoy look like a million bucks and if you told these coaches they're hurting their programs in the long run they'd argue about it.

As soon as someone as hyped as Bradford busts maybe the top schools will change their ways. Of course that's probably asking too much Texas has all kinds of busts and people still want to go there.

Oklahoma has had hardly anyone transition very well to the next level if you want to be honest about it.

Well maybe the coaches that argue that they aren't hurting the long term value of their team are right. Personally I know if i'm going to go to the NFL I'm choosing a school that will get me ready to play in the NFL

Alot of kids don't think about it, it's sad but true. Kids from Texas have immense pressure to go to schools like Texas and OU.

SC actually gets so many players one of the recruiting tactics used against them is 'If you go there you may never play how are you gonna get to the next level when you aren't on the field?"

The Virginia schools and SC are cranking out some players that have the potential to be really great. And as far as Texas/OU goes, what does it say that a "Son of Texas" like Stafford looks at their programs and says "**** that"?
Georgia and Florida make some really good defensive players though.

That was sick how he was nailing those plates.

And painful too.:shake:

ADDENDUM:

It's Marino all over again. :doh!:

Imagine if you're Matt Stafford and you can titty **** some of the hottest coeds in the world. Of course you're gonna go to UGA and hammer some strange. It's ****ing hardcore.

****in-A; southern women know how to talk dirty, **** dirty, and cook dirty rice!

Count...me...IN.

OK...DOUBLE PUSSIES...SHITSTAINED BALLS, CUM SWAPPING AND THE HANGING BRAIN!!

:eek:ROFL

And I quote, "Hamas get's wasted bad".ROFL


http://i689.photobucket.com/albums/v..._1989_wade.jpg

The whole planet is a "Hamas is wasted thread" right now.

And we're all the better for it.:evil:

It's not about the Arabian Goggles and the Hot Carl.

Or Pussy Juice Cocktail...or cum swapping and the hanging brain. It's not about the rattlesnake wiggle, and the alligator ****house, donkey punch or the teabagging!!

Then what the hell is it about?

****in' shit!LMAO:BLVD:

Should you change your avatar while drunk? That seems risky...

Yes, the whole balance of world power could shift dramatically! ROFL

Enough Planet for one day, I'm out!

ROFL I'm really glad you got back on to make one last point. ROFL

This.

STAFFORD IS GOD AND THE HOWITZER ATTACHED TO HIS SHOULDER IS HIS MESSAGE.

Damn HJ get some sleep man. You have to be tired by now.:)

I've heard Bill Polian discuss the Colts decision to draft Manning over Leaf, and their concerns that Manning didn't have elite arm strength and that he might have maxed out.

Manning's level of play drops off in the post season.

Guys like Montana, Elway, Brady, and now Roethlisberger show up and make plays when games are on the line in the playoffs.

Manning doesn't.

Not the greatest QB ever.

Not even close.

He missed one.

He's going to be a bust.

:spock:

Yeah, Detroit is way smarter because they happen to have the number one pick. If they take Stafford at one, which is what I said, how the hell do you make the connection that they are smarter than the Chiefs when we wouldn't have a chance at Stafford anyway?

If we wanted a chance at Stafford, surely Jesus GM could have wheeled and dealed in His celestial manner to make it happen. He chose the fork in the road with the signpost that said "safer". Deny it not, for it is the truth and there is no point in bickering about it. Aided by the Ghost of Blackledge, the Marino Circle is now complete.

After watching the presser with those two and observing facial expressions, I could not help but notice that Jesus GM was a little irritable when discussing the 1st Messiah and his aged compatriot, Sir Ingram the Elder.
It was if he were not pleased that some in the fan community would question the Awesomeness of the 1st Messiah...
Meh. Welcome to football, big boy!
We'll jump off to a faster start with Cassel than Detroit or whoever takes Sanchez, but come talk to me about 5 years from now, and 5 to 8 years after that!

There's some push for "win now" going on, do not deny it. Two losing seasons combined with construction costs have produced a need for immediate revenue generation, and the only way to get that happening is to get those True Fans and former DiPardo groupies asses back in the seats!
Let the hickory smoke fill the parking lots! Stock the pro shop with throwbacks!
7 and 9,
HERE WE COME!!! :doh!:

Yeah, I'm sure all Scott Pioli, the former GM of the Patriots, is worried about is filling the seats. He has already won Super Bowls, so I'm sure he's just not that interested in that stuff anymore.

If you really believe the shit that you post, then you are even dumber than I thought.

And I am a big fan of Stafford, but if you are implying that we should have traded basically our whole draft this year and some picks next year to move up to #1 to get him, then you are even dumber than I thought.

And you're implying that economics have no bearing on the overall plan for the Chiefs first year under the new regime.

Try again Alfalfa.

Scott Pioli was never GM of the Patriots.