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» JeffH_6 - College recruiting over-rated

Every year hero-worshiping sports writers rate the glamor schools on how well they recruited which group of glamor high school players. In the end, however, these big-time recruiting classes seldom perform on the field the way they were rated on paper.

All one needs to do is check the past decade of these classes, and they will see that the ultimate winners on the field were generally those schools who possessed the best coaching staffs, and those who were lucky enough to have all their most important players for the duration of the season.

Regardless of who recruits whom, the Ohio States, Nebraskas, and Florida States are going to get most of the highest rated high school players each year, but that does not always translate into the best overall team.

Since Division 1-A schools do not have any kind of playoff system, the top teams are still determined by those same starry-eyed media members who rate the recruiting classes. Consequently, the best 10 or 15 teams according to these childish individuals are not always truely the best.

Until this division develops a playoff system similar to Division 1-AA, where the national championship is decided on the field by two teams, not in a corporate coliseum with "Tostitos" or some other form of advertizement splattered all over the surface, by two political survivors, the true national championship of Division 1-A football will continue to be subject to conjecture.

-- posted by JeffH_6

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