Quote:The concept of scouting a player by school is so absurd its amazing how many people still subscribe to it. Perhaps at one time, it applied when you have guys like Bowden and Paterno who was at the same university for decades on. Ok, in that case, I get it. That may happen again with Saban in Bama, fine.

 

But what's the point of labeling someone a "Miami CB" when that team has had so many different coaches, and thus differing schemes? Penn St was "Linebacker U". If there's a good LB from Penn St this draft, do you still consider him a "LB U" despite the university moving on from Paterno to O'Brien to Franklin?

 

"Florida Wide Receiver" was a thing back in the Spurrier days. But tell me, what does a wide receiver who played for Spurrier's Fun N Gun have anything in common with Meyer's spread offense? And Muschamps?

 

Absolutely nothing.

 

Scout the player, not the school. Just do your due diligence.

 

Then to what do you attribute schools who produce stud players at the same positions irrespective of coaching changes?

 

USC under McKay and Robinson produced stud safeties like Browner and Lott,  Even under the low point of Hackett, IIRC, USC produced guys like Tim McDonald.  Then they produced Polamalu.

 

Under several coaches spanning generations, Miami produced Chuck Foreman, Ottis Anderson, Edgerrin James, Clinton Portis and Frank Gore.  DT?  Rubin Carter(pre Schnellenberger)  to Jerome Brown (Jimmy Johnson) to Warren Sapp (Erickson) to Wilfork (Coker).

 

Alabama has produced stud LBs from Bear Bryant (EJ Junior), Ray Perkins (Cornelius Bennett) Bill Curry (Derrick Thomas), Gene Stallings (Dwayne Rudd), Mike Shula (Demeco Ryans) to Nick Saban (Donta Hightower).

 

Answer the question I posed above.

 

Why the derision over the guy from the Colorado School of mines?

 

If you find football players where you find football players, nobody should have had any problem with that signing.

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