quote:There are GREAT scouts
There are GOOD scouts
There are AVERAGE scouts
There are POOR scouts
And there are TERRIBLE scouts
Insert any profession or occupation for the word scouts. This is human nature and applies to all human activities.
Do we expect all hitters to bat 1.000? or all pitchers to have 0.00 ERA's, or all fielders to have 1.000 fielding percentages? All lawyers to win every case? Do we expect scouts to be right 100% of the time?
No, we expect professionals to be right much more often than amateurs. In hindsight, any kid can tell you Michael Jordan was the greatest player of his generation yet he lasted until the third pick in his respective draft class. It was not perfectly clear back then and it wasn't clear to his freshman coach who cut him.
Here is a premise that seems hard to argue against. There will be mistakes made in every draft, in every sport from now until the end of time. Given that, it seems like we may be beating a dead horse