Gunzlingr
04-25-2003, 02:33 PM
It's that time of year again, time for football fans to get all geeked up about the NFL Draft.
You'll have to excuse me for not joining the party.
Having watched most of these guys in college and followed their careers closely, I don't see why the process has to be so mystical.
We're talking about a pool of prospects who have played against a similar level of competition. Just pick the ones who performed the best.
If it were that simple, though, scouts and personnel gurus wouldn't be able to justify their existence. They have to prove they're capable of seeing and knowing things the average Joe with a DirecTV package can't. Thus the combines, the interviews and the private workouts.
Thus their often puzzling decisions.
more (http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/inside_game/stewart_mandel/news/2003/04/22/mandel_draft/)
You'll have to excuse me for not joining the party.
Having watched most of these guys in college and followed their careers closely, I don't see why the process has to be so mystical.
We're talking about a pool of prospects who have played against a similar level of competition. Just pick the ones who performed the best.
If it were that simple, though, scouts and personnel gurus wouldn't be able to justify their existence. They have to prove they're capable of seeing and knowing things the average Joe with a DirecTV package can't. Thus the combines, the interviews and the private workouts.
Thus their often puzzling decisions.
more (http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/inside_game/stewart_mandel/news/2003/04/22/mandel_draft/)