Tom Herman just proved
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They won 8 games the year before and most football people knew they were returning most of their talent.
Houston is returning 8 Starters on Offense including Ward and 7 on Defense...plus they have a Borderline Top 25 Recruiting Class currently....28th in Rivals with four 4* Players and one already enrolled.
I never mentioned a 4.4 speed from one state being faster than from another...impossible and a really stupid take by you...I do think a 3* from TX is usually much better than a 3* from say KY, because the competition that they play every week has them much more prepared. They also practice and have to beat out better competition to get on the field.
Rankings are getting more consistent because showcase camps can get kids from different states going head to head, but hell yes I value players from Florida, TX and some other states over the KYs, TNs, IN etc.
I understand your point, but I think that the ratings take that into account in the first place. That's the reason that places like Texas and Florida already have dozens of 3 and 4 players for every one that Kentucky produces. That's why many Kentucky high school phenoms barely get a sniff from the scouting services.
Be careful fellas... You guys are going to make JAUK mad... None of those guys where 8.43 stars so you must be wrong...
The population of TX and FL is much much greater than that of KY...also another reason for their greater number of higher ranked players...basically because they have more
Dominated? We couldn't stop the running QB in the second half. They beat us by 8 not 50.
Per capita, each state has a lot more. I can look it up, but I would guess that it is between 5 to 8 times as many, per capita.
At times I think we should just give up. I've heard every excuse ever about obstacles that we have when someone else does good. Mississippi St. sucked as bad as we did for a number of years going as far back as the 80s and 90s. Then when they start kicking our butt they all at once get a great feeder system they never tapped into and it has nothing to do with a different coach.
You do have to have the guys to win when it gets down to the final four. You can beat some other teams with better talent just because of their own mismanagement and being able to outcoach the other sideline. Hard to win consistently though, and almost nearly impossible to win when it gets down to four left. Usually takes a pretty good coach to get to that point.
Kind of misleading statement since we totally dominated them most of the first half.
No kidding, not just well coached but also talented. Houston beat Louisville at their place, smoked Navy who went 11-2 (only other loss was to Notre Dame), and beat Vanderbilt 34-0, same Vandy that beat UK, Missouri and almost beat South Carolina and Florida. In short, I am confident Houston would have fared quite well in any P5 conference you can name, would not have won the conference, maybe, but would have been one of the best teams in any P5 conference.
You mean when they had the other QB in the game? We got 1 offensive TD on a drive? Luckily for us we got some TO's or they would have beaten us something like 49-10.
At the beginning of the year I'd say we were about even with the game being a toss up. They continued to get better as the year went along and we went in the opposite direction fast.
I know it sucks losing to them but you have to look in the mirror and face reality or your never gonna change it. Living in a fantasy world is something I'm glad our coaches are not doing. They want to get better and trying too, not patting themselves on the back saying ya we outplayed them for 1 quarter in the game.
Look I don't like losing ever to ul and they beat us worse in the second half then we did to them in the first half. But sorry they didn't dominate the whole game.