Paul Finebaum’s Saturday column provided details about Tom Luginbill’s recruiting analysis, and why the ESPN analyst ranked the Tide’s class #3 when everyone else placed the Tide at the top.
“I don’t want to get into an ‘I told you so’ type of situation,” Luginbill said. “In our opinion, what you do in February with our rankings, you have to take that into consideration in August. If they don’t show up in August, they’re not part of it. This was one of the things we were very concerned about. If the guys aren’t there in the end, you can’t count them in the end.
“When we talked about this back in February, we knew there was going to be some of this. We didn’t feel comfortable talking about academic issues unless we knew it for a fact. It’s a very sensitive issue; we stayed away but we knew it was part of it privately. It explains where we were coming from.”
What a load of…manure.
Every team in the SEC experiences attrition in a signing class due to players failing to qualify, or backing out of playing football. But Luginbill wants us to believe this is a major issue confined only to Alabama.
Please.
Luginbill also wants us to believe the players who aren’t going to be on the Tide’s squad are somehow major parts of the class.
But according to Luginbill’s own rankings, players like Brandon Lewis (headed to JUCO) aren’t graded near the top of the class. In fact, all of the top players in the class are headed to Tuscaloosa—just look at the ESPN 150’s. Aren’t they supposed to the be the centerpiece of the class?
This is another reason Rivals.com and Scout.com are superior to Luginbill and ESPN. They calculate some attrition in their complicated statistical analysis (Rivals only rates the class on the first 25 players.) Unlike ESPN’s subjective and therefore biased ranking, Rivals provides a more impartial mathematical model.
Also, Finebaum throws in this comical line:
However, since Luginbill’s reputation is unimpeachable in most national circles and with a behemoth like ESPN on his side, some wonder if his rankings and recent comments take a tiny chink out of Saban’s armor.
Luginbill isn’t respected in recruiting circles. All Finebaum has to do is listen to his own archives when the Rivals CEO came onto the Finebaum show. Shannon Terry of Rivals responded to Luginbill’s allegations that sites like Rivals and Scout push an agenda to earn subscription dollars.
And now Luginbill’s “content†is being sold to subscribers too.
Hypocrite.
I’m just kidding, bammers. I never served in our armed forces. In fact, I’ve never left my card board box here on Wire Road (only to use the free wi fi down at the local zippy mart). I love Aufarm football because of that down home feel Aufarm provides for their Deliverance-ish fans. I love the rodeos. The trailers. Throwing toilet paper in a tree. Country music concerts down at the Sky Barn. Hunting. Fishing. Having sexual intercourse with my sister (and my son). And bending over for Tubby when I know the country’s back is against him.
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AUGirl, watch out tmc1 will throw a 9 in a row at you.
Boy, I never thought I would see someone get so pissed to call a female a whore in this blog. I try to state my point in a funny and kidding sort of way. I enjoy reading the comments back and forth between Auburn and Bama fans, and most of them are entertaining and thought provoking. I have had differences with some, but I take it in stride. I also have respect for many on here, Ballplay, Julio, and yes, even you tmc. But I gotta tell ya 007, if that was my daughter or sister or wife or mother, I’d make you shit your pants scum.
Someone one this blog TRYING to be me and saying the stupid things he/she said proves one thing and proves our point all along. Typical bammer fan. I thought it was an isolated incident, but hell no they are all that way. What a bunch of loser jerks. They are a second rate program with thugs and drug dealers and they can’t take the heat of being losers. They resort to beating up the military who defend their asses on a daily basis. Three words: TYPICAL BAMA FAN.
FinebaumJunkie- You can’t come in here an have fun with these bama fans. They resort to low down personal attacks instead of keeping it between AU and UAT. I have respect for so many in this blog. I love coming in and talking back and forth with the likes of tmc1 and others but this is ridiculous. typical bama fans I suppose. That is sad.
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sissy you SWAT NATS