Quote:Like I said, that's not how this works.


If you don't understand that that does not necessarily predict future success or failures, then I really have nothing to discuss with you.


Name one QB from Miami of Ohio prior to Big Ben?


It's so easy to crush your joke of an argument.

 

That is the key phrase right there.

 

I did not say it was the definitive, sole determinant of success or failure.

 

It is a factor/consideration.  Nothing more.  Caldwell has stated he would place more of a scouting emphasis on bigger schools.  His rationale?  That's where the players tend to come from.

 

http://www.jaguars.com/news/article-Edit...a9221ca7a3

 

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<b>3. Talking philosophies. </b>As Caldwell prepared for the combine last week, he took time to talk to jaguars.com about his draft philosophies. One, he said, was that the Jaguars moving forward likely will lean more toward major conference players as opposed to smaller schools, though he has nothing philosophically against selecting small-school players. Caldwell said the approach is simply a matter of playing the percentages. “I always believe in drafting and acquiring toward what the norms are,” he said. “If 93 percent of the players in the NFL are playing at Division I-A programs, that’s the norm. I’m not saying I would never draft a small-school player, but they would have to dominate that level. I wouldn’t say absolutes, but I’m a believer: big school, big competition.’’

(emphasis added)

 

So under your logic, Caldwell is "stupid" for leaning more towards schools that produce players than schools that don't.  How is that any different?

 

But if I am off, if it's always the player, not the school, how can a school like Penn State not produce ANY DBs to do anything in the NFL?!?

 

Answer that question.

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