[GreenMeany]

To a certain extent, he's right. We have done better when we've had better recruits. We've also done better when we've had better coaching (as we do now). I'd have to look back and see how Perles and Saban recruited in their first couple of years. That's sort of the real comparison, isn't it? Also, that was pre-Internet. Did Perles have to contend with a recruiting environment in which recruits could go on the "hometown" website and find people asking, "Why would X come here when he can go to USC (or Alabama)?" I still found people asking that question on this site per the recruiting of people like Perry and Ingram and it stupefied and maddened me. ... Does the phrase "Shooting yourself in the foot" mean anything? Why did Plaxico Burress choose to come here? He didn't do so bad. How about Andre Rison? He did okay. Etc., etc.