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I don't know why it is so hard for posters here to acknowledge a mistake.

I don't think there is any lack of acknowledging it was a mistake. In fact the comments about missing the Stanford camp and that "Shaw thought he was a bit of a tweener" is exactly an explanation of why (somebody thought) Shaw made that mistake.  I think the pushback is that whining over individual recruiting evaluation mistakes is both pointless (they're simply going to happen) and rather annoying to keep reading.

On the other hand, at least to me, systematic things seem to me to be much more worth discussing. While I think I understand why Shaw is conservative with offers, I think he misses the correct balance. The program would benefit from a more aggressive effort to get close to filling the scholarship limit.

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I don't know why it is so hard for posters here to acknowledge a mistake.

I don't think there is any lack of acknowledging it was a mistake. In fact the comments about missing the Stanford camp and that "Shaw thought he was a bit of a tweener" is exactly an explanation of why (somebody thought) Shaw made that mistake.  I think the pushback is that whining over individual recruiting evaluation mistakes is both pointless (they're simply going to happen) and rather annoying to keep reading.

On the other hand, at least to me, systematic things seem to me to be much more worth discussing. While I think I understand why Shaw is conservative with offers, I think he misses the correct balance. The program would benefit from a more aggressive effort to get close to filling the scholarship limit.