Clearly comes across as a very intelligent guy in that interview. I love targeting guys who have all the physical tools and have interest from service academies and Ivy League schools. Having a smarter team can be the difference between 7-5 and 10-2.
I'm sorry but this is a joke right? I do not disagree at all that a "smarter team" will allow to better comprehend a playbook, but I have to strongly disagree that it will translate that significantly into wins. I would agree with you if you told me that 50% of our recruits are in the top percentile academically along with being Division I size players. But to state that because we are recruiting "smarter" that we will win 3 more games a year, makes absolutely no sense. If that was the case, why don't we stand outside of the Scripps National Spelling Bee Competition every year and offer a scholarship to each competitor? Why aren't Vanderbilt and Northwestern the SEC & BIG10 Champs every year? *an outlier would be Stanford. I welcome intelligent, physical and good character recruits to our school, but to say that a team of "smart" students is going to take us not only bowling but January bowling yearly is ridiculous.