There is no track record he's a great recruiter period. Show me examples of him recruiting when he wasn't at fucking Alabama and was beating blue blood programs for 4 and 5 star recruits. [/i]
I "showed you" him being Butch Davis' undisputed ace recruiter at the U at a time when going there was really uncool. I "showed you" him being Schiano's ace recruiter and putting together talent at a program that had never had it. But you told me you didn't care about that, so I guess it doesn't count. You just want to focus on Alabama, where he also landed huge recruiting classes, because of your stupid af argument that it's a non-job. Apparently Saban doesn't consider the job of recruiting coordinator to be an important position. Only fanboys really believe that programs recruit themselves. Even during a run, there is competition. Amari Cooper, from, and wanted to sign with, Miami; wound up at Alabama.
He completely outperformed expectations bringing in talent (e.g. TY Hilton) to an FIU program that was amongst the worst in Division I. There is not a professional person in the sport who doesn't think that Pete Garcia completely fucked up letting him go after one step-back season after having made history at that shit show with a bowl appearance and winning record. Little or none of that sentiment was based on his football IQ. Everyone there knows he's a great recruiter.
AGAIN, as for Oregon, LIPO. That book is still being written; please spare me the idea that you know how it ends.
This past class and this current class UW is beating the likes of USC, Notre Dame, Stanford, Alabama, and Oklahoma for recruits. That is what big boy recruiting looks like.[/i] No shit? A program led by a nationally-respected coach who's been to two high profile post-season bowls in a row is recruiting well? Who would have thought? Oregon loses head to head with USC during the best of times. He's an unproven coach. They've been shitty. Let a recruiting class see Oregon go 10-3 or 9-4 and see what happens.
I'm not getting vastly overrated anything. Miami doesn't deal in overrated classes.
You guys gave Petersen a lot of time and slack before starting the process of writing him off. At least appear to be somewhat objective. There is not a recruiter in the country who is going to step in at Oregon, of all places, and start beating Ohio State, USC, Alabama, Clemson, etc. for elite recruits on a regular basis. I don't see Scott Frost meeting those standards at Nebraska, and he's at Nebraska[/i]. I see a lot of 3 and 4 stars who are being recruited by lower-tier programs or programs coming off a coaching change or in some other kind of turmoil. I don't follow Nebraska, so I stand to be corrected here, but a quick fly by of their list didn't look like it was a giant-killer time, so maybe Frost can't recruit either.
Just face it. You're going to make this argument no matter what happens. If the "right" program offers the kid, it's not a "real" offer. If they don't offer, it's because the kid's overrated, not because he's not OKG, or because he doesn't fill a priority recruiting position, oir because there's another prospect they'd rather have (which, btw, doesn't make the first kid overrated). No. It's always because the kid sucks.
This level of doogery is just so unmanly.