01-16-2019, 05:17 PM
Some 17-19 year old young men are at their athletic peak. Others are just beginning the climb. It's genetics, stupid (to paraphrase James Carville).
An Alabama can recruit both players from these cohorts of bell curves without worrying about filling their needs. Stanford needs to be smarter to find the ones beginning the climb, and nurturing at least the best of them to to compete where they wish and are capable to compete, at the highest level.
In the past 3-4 years, we have lost far too many potentially great players underachieve for various reasons. This cannot continue, if we wish to be great and not just above average....
An Alabama can recruit both players from these cohorts of bell curves without worrying about filling their needs. Stanford needs to be smarter to find the ones beginning the climb, and nurturing at least the best of them to to compete where they wish and are capable to compete, at the highest level.
In the past 3-4 years, we have lost far too many potentially great players underachieve for various reasons. This cannot continue, if we wish to be great and not just above average....
All models are wrong; some models are useful......
George Box