We follow recruiting religiously. Like, seriously. It is its own religious sect. It's own denomination. Sure, it's a much more common practice
in the deep South, but here I sit with 7 tabs open on my browser. 6 of the 7 are KU Football recruits. The 7th is this blog, where I am writing about recruiting. Find a blog post where I don't talk about recruiting, or a specific recruit, and I will buy you a yearly subscription to something. I don't know what for, say, a college recruiting website? Point being, we invest countless hours following the game's next stars, praying, begging, that they bring their talents to our Alma mater. After thinking about it for a while, following college recruiting is a lot like breathing: you barely notice you do it, but if you stopped, you'd probably keel over and die. I mean, you guys follow college football recruiting a lot too, right? Like 2, 3, 9 hours a day, right? Guys? Sooooo, this will come to the chagrin of a lot of you, but SPOILER ALERT: identifying "talent" in a high school athlete is a bit of a crap shoot. Yes... I said it. I'm just as befuddled by that statement as you are. I don't want to believe that "stars" and other ranking gauges are not an exact science. I don't want to believe that our newly signed 3* linebacker doesn't actually run a 4.5 and can't bench the bar. But I have to. Here is why.
