I think they would take Cooper above Crowell, but if they could get Crowell and Edwards right now, they’d probably do it and be finished with it. Crowell has a lot more prima donna in him than the other two.
Same same. Far and away, $9.95ers rank the OL the worst out of all positions. I think it is due to two reasons:
1) A lot of $9.95ers are clueless as to what they’re doing. The team site guys are often just laughable. Does anyone here think Geoff Ketchum has a clue about the football trenches? I mean, sure, he’s always been a rotund glutton, but the guy stopped playing organized football in junior high. He got the OB job by interning for Bobby Burton and being in the right place at the right time. That’s true over and over for many of the team site mods and analysts.
2) OL evaluation is truly benefitted by seeing guys in person. Most of the $9.95 crowd see a guy in person once or twice at a camp, if that recruit is lucky enough and interested enough to attend one. Few of them get out on the road and watch them in drills at their school or at a local game. Few get to know coaches from repeat appearances to catch-up, which is when the best of the best get to pick up nuance around the character of a recruit, potential distractions due to family, gangs or pussy, etc.
And no, contrary to the stooge you quoted, HS coaches don’t just randomly hand out full film of a player.
One other thing to keep in mind about Gerry and Bobby - they actually talk to a ton of college coaches and analysts. They’ve both been doing this for decades.
If Gerry’s really high on a guy at OL, DL, TE, or LB, you can mix into your thinking about that player that, hey, Texas might really like this guy too. I’m not saying that means “trust the coaches”, but it’s a data point. If you think Banks and Flood know what they’re doing, that’s a good way to discern for yourself that maybe the national rankings on a player aren’t worth the ass sweat seeping into Ketchum’s couch on a daily basis.