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  • GreenRiverGatorz
    GreenRiverGatorz Member Posts: 10,168
    A program must have at least one 247Sports Composite five-star prospect on its roster (Every championship game participant and playoff team the last 16 years has had at least one).

    Maybe I'm missing something, but I don't recall us having a composite 5-star player since Shaq was on the team. Budda wasn't one, so I'm not sure who they think we had on our team in 2016 that would qualify for this criteria. That's a blatant error before they even started their analysis, which isn't a good sign.

    But regardless, this kind of "analysis" is just lazy and faulty. To start, it's being based off of a highly subjective measure (composite rankings, which includes ESPN's recruiting staff, a department that has less funding than Fetters' hot dog budget). And that subjective measure doesn't even look at those rankings holistically. If they were to measure the composite rankings of the entire roster, then their analysis would be a lot more convincing. But arbitrarily setting the cutoff at 5-star recruits is just a bad methodology.





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  • Doogles
    Doogles Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 12,865 Founders Club
    nor have they reeled in a top 10 class the last four cycles — anther critical indicator historically for championship game participants and playoff teams. It should be stated that Washington did buck that trend in 2016, so it's hard to rule the Huskies completely out.

    My understanding is THAT refers to not having a top 10 class but making the playoff anyway.

    The entire premise of the article is the criteria required to make the playoff and it states not one team has made it without at least 1 composite 5-star.

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  • MikeDamone
    MikeDamone Member Posts: 37,781
    Emptaman was a 2 star
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  • dnc
    dnc Member Posts: 56,855
    edited August 2018

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  • Tequilla
    Tequilla Member Posts: 20,270
    Stars are a leading indicator but not an end all be all ... UW gets good QB play and they are right in the mix
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  • YellowSnow
    YellowSnow Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 37,895 Founders Club
    Tequilla said:

    Stars are a leading indicator but not an end all be all ... UW gets good QB play and they are right in the mix

    We can make the CFP with "good" QB play. But so far the evidence is skrong that it cannot be won - at our current talent level - w/o "elite" QB play.
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  • Tequilla
    Tequilla Member Posts: 20,270
    YellowSnow said:

    Tequilla said:

    Stars are a leading indicator but not an end all be all ... UW gets good QB play and they are right in the mix

    We can make the CFP with "good" QB play. But so far the evidence is skrong that it cannot be won - at our current talent level - w/o "elite" QB play.
    I agree with this 100% ... having elite QB play is one of the few competitive advantages that P12 schools have historically had against SEC schools
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  • Pitchfork51
    Pitchfork51 Member Posts: 27,695
    RaceBannon said:

    Matt Leinhart carved up Auburn in his first start and it was at Auburn

    We don't have Matt Leinhart though.

    RACESTOp
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