re: Chavis ability to develop players

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You don't just stick athletes out on the field and they win. Look at Texas now. A team full of athletes with no development. Somebody has to teach CBs when to look for the ball, when to break, what a route tree is, how to play zone, how to use their hands to disrupt a route, how to attack the ball at its highest point and things like that

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The 2 are not mutually exclusive. Of course you can't just roll out athletes and have them play. But part of the problem with this debate is you are seeing things in absolutes. Texas may be under achieving relative to the talent and resoruces, but they still won 8 or 9 games in a top BCS conference and will have several players drafted. So its not as if they are getting no development at all. They may be in bad schemes, bad play calling stuff like that, but that is different from developement. If all that's worng with a kid is he takes bad angles or doesn't know where he is supposed to be in a zone, the NFL can fix that. Besides they are going to teach him a more complex D anyway. You can't coach 6'2" 205 with 4.5 speed. That's just natural.

I'd argue part of UT's problem is they are doing a poor job of evaluating. That's where I think LSU's staff (and obviously Bama's) are really out doing people. Mack has been very lazy in recruiting. Where LSU uses the summer camps to evaluate, Texas really hasn't, I've heard they rely more on tape, than those one on one type of evaluations.