1) I hope so, didn't really think it was all that subtle for most people.Originally posted by bagdropper:
There's no sense in arguing with you because your mind is already closed off. You've rubber-stamped Kirk Ferentz already. 1) Your poster name, "That's Football" - tells us all exactly where you stand.
You cannot see past your hatred to reasonably debate any and all subjects. 2) Only a complete fool would assume that in these visits, evaluating talent never comes up. Are you seriously that dense? That not a single solitary visiting coach never asked..."gee, Kirk. How did you find Dallas Clark? How did you find Bob Sanders? How did you project their talents they showed us all in high school into possibly being the players they wound up being for your program, and how did you develop them into that?"
Yep...nobody EVER asked those questions. "Hey Kirk, diagram the zone blocking scheme for me please." That's all he was ever asked.
2) And only a fool would actually think our coaching staff is stupid enough to tell competing programs precisely how they evaluate talent. I might show someone from a different company how my office operates, but I sure as hell don't let them sit in on board meetings. JFC, is this line of thought real for you? Do you also think Pat Fitzgerald sits down with Kirk in his office and they go through a copy of our playbook with a glass of Makers?
3) Lastly, if it is obvious that other schools have in fact learned Kirks secrets to recruiting, please do tell some of the programs you suspect are now using said knowledge to find players like Dallas Clark and therefore we no longer get them. Should be pretty easy after looking back at your quote:
"Iowa isn't finding the diamonds in the rough in the amounts they used to because other teams researched how Iowa did things and emulated how they did this and are now taking them off our hands to some degree."
Even more funny you even alluded to this making our recruiting harder, like our coaches just didn't know that showing all these other competing programs exactly how we identify talent would limit their own success in getting said recruits.
Your thought process is just fascinating to me.