[martyup]

One thing this strange short season has shown us is that we can win games with a lot of unheralded "next man ups."  IMO, the only player that would really hurt our chances for winning if he leaves is Mills.  Of course if we want to win championships, we will need some unheralded guys to become stars, like we saw happen in Fehoko.

 

Simi Fehoko, a 4 star recruit top 100 player in the country coming out of HS, is unheralded to you? Jesus christ.

How about "unproven?"  Many 4 star recruits never become stars on the college level.  We've had our share of those.

Setting the Pac-12 record for yards per reception last year was "unproven" to you?

You missed my point.  He became a star at Stanford.  I never said he was unproven until this season.  My point is that we need more guys to develop into impact players before we can expect to win championships.  On the average, our recruits have more ground to make up coming in than Alabama's recruits.  I'm sure the Tide has quite a few top rated recruits that don't pan out, but they can afford some misses when they have so many 4 and 5 star guys coming in each year.

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If you want to argue every point on this board, that's fine.  Fehoko did not set the record for receiving yards per reception last season.  His 2019 mark of 23.6 ypr is 5th all-time in the Pac-12.

https://www.sports-reference.com/cfb/con...eason.html

[martyup]

One thing this strange short season has shown us is that we can win games with a lot of unheralded "next man ups."  IMO, the only player that would really hurt our chances for winning if he leaves is Mills.  Of course if we want to win championships, we will need some unheralded guys to become stars, like we saw happen in Fehoko.

 

Simi Fehoko, a 4 star recruit top 100 player in the country coming out of HS, is unheralded to you? Jesus christ.

How about "unproven?"  Many 4 star recruits never become stars on the college level.  We've had our share of those.

Setting the Pac-12 record for yards per reception last year was "unproven" to you?

You missed my point.  He became a star at Stanford.  I never said he was unproven until this season.  My point is that we need more guys to develop into impact players before we can expect to win championships.  On the average, our recruits have more ground to make up coming in than Alabama's recruits.  I'm sure the Tide has quite a few top rated recruits that don't pan out, but they can afford some misses when they have so many 4 and 5 star guys coming in each year.

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If you want to argue every point on this board, that's fine.  Fehoko did not set the record for receiving yards per reception last season.  His 2019 mark of 23.6 ypr is 5th all-time in the Pac-12.

https://www.sports-reference.com/cfb/con...eason.html