Those kids camped with Golden! His problem was he was not good at all at evals, or they'd never have been offered. Also Vernon Davis, Jontavious Carter, D'Mauri Jones, that fullback who was awful, plenty of kids. Brendan Loftus, who he took, you had really knowledgeable FL HS types saying no way was that kid even a D1 prospect. There was no process, no quality control, no clue on some of those evals. Dorito was actually solid at LB evals, IMO, and some of our S evals back then were good (Jaquan, Jenkins, e.g.).
As for the rest of it, you have to separate tail from dog. Cart from horse. Alabama gives a bump to kids because the services know Alabama knows evals. Alabama doesn't target kids because other schools want them. They may notice kids because other schools want them. But they do their own evals, and they have enormous resources dedicated to just that. If you want to know what separates Alabama right now, resources to evaluate is part of it.
When the recruiting cycle is all over, each school has targeted each other's kids and so you wind up with a decent top 10 assessment. But that's useless for recruiting because you have to start recruiting kids years earlier, and you have to do it based on your own evals.
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. Now what u just expained was the al Golden process of “building canes”...I’m saying don’t plan on bringing in Joe brown, alex Gall, Nate dortch, Larry hopes etc then wonder why they didn’t belong at the P5 level. If your evaluation process points you to that direct constantly then you need to reevaluate the process.
