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[cwl1951]

Everyone appreciates what you do with these....including me. In fact, I may need to put you on the game prep payroll.

THIS…HIGHEST COMPLIMENT DAVE MAY GET!!

[RaginDave]

I'll pay you in bourbon.

I will take it. I might just hold you to that.

[Million$Mullet]

Don’t let coach prime get ahold of this interview.

[RaginDave]

THIS…HIGHEST COMPLIMENT DAVE MAY GET!!

I appreciate all of the compliments from everyone on this board, but yes knowing that Jay reads it and uses it at times is a huge compliment. I have tons of respect for the "Voice of the Cajuns."

If I can help him in any tiny way then yes, that is a huge compliment.

[facelessjonmoon]

Don’t let coach prime get ahold of this interview.

I was thinking the same 😬

[BeauCajun]

I will take it. I might just hold you to that.

Probably from Melrock’s stash.

[RaginDave]

Probably from Melrock’s stash.

I've never seen a stash like Melrock's stash, ever. I think Total Wine shops at Melrock's.

[CajunT]

Or if you want to keep it local.

https://www.aicompanystore.com/cajunsgearonline.aspx

Yes sir

[CajunT]

This is the problem with the preseason prognosticators now. It used to be much easier to predict teams and how they would perform each season because when you have roughly 20 kids signed to a recruiting class and about 15-17 make it to campus and 4-6 are redshirted, you can figure that a team would have an average of 10 new players each season that could make some sort of impact. So if they were good last year and replace 10 players and 7 were guys who were impact players, they would be down, if only 2 were impact then they would be the same or possibly better. Since the transfer portal and NIL and other factors, some teams have as many as 50 new players coming in on a team that carries 80 scholarships. Now you never know if a team won 3 games the previous year if they are going to win 3 or 9.

This is not the same situation as 5 years ago making preseason predictions. MAT knows this, the landscape of college football has changed dramatically and turning a 3-win team to a 9-win team in one year is much easier than it ever was before, that being said turning a 9-win team to a 3-win team is also just as easy.

Yes, you are correct. Phil Steele has been the most accurate over the last decade or more, and he usually completes his interviews with each program right after spring games to get everything back to the publisher and shipped out to locations by the middle of July. By the time August begins, some information is now incomplete.

Most recruiting classes at least a few that never show up on campus. In addition to that, some programs can sign late transfers from JC or Portal that may have enrolled in the second summer semester or August. And then you have injuries and surgeries that take place, and rehab. That means some athletes may not be available at the start of the season.

Then there are staff changes that take place as well, so up-to-date information is not always available and how it effects certain position rooms and programs isn't really known until the first few weeks of the season.

[Turbine]

This is the problem with the preseason prognosticators now. It used to be much easier to predict teams and how they would perform each season because when you have roughly 20 kids signed to a recruiting class and about 15-17 make it to campus and 4-6 are redshirted, you can figure that a team would have an average of 10 new players each season that could make some sort of impact. So if they were good last year and replace 10 players and 7 were guys who were impact players, they would be down, if only 2 were impact then they would be the same or possibly better. Since the transfer portal and NIL and other factors, some teams have as many as 50 new players coming in on a team that carries 80 scholarships. Now you never know if a team won 3 games the previous year if they are going to win 3 or 9.

This is not the same situation as 5 years ago making preseason predictions. MAT knows this, the landscape of college football has changed dramatically and turning a 3-win team to a 9-win team in one year is much easier than it ever was before, that being said turning a 9-win team to a 3-win team is also just as easy.

Hadn't thought about the prognosticator challenge before.

You are so right.