Billy Bean

I don't think he's crazy.  I actually like the idea of Paul Podesta sitting there at his laptop, crunching numbers that haven't typically been considered in traditional recruiting.  There seems to be a kind of scientific element involved in using data about what a player has done rather than intuition about what a player might do.  Still, I think it's probably best to have a blend of what Billy does and what the old school scouts have done.  I just remember what the Stanford coach said yesterday about how he looks at a players feet first, judging what type of balance he has, and how he also tries to measure respect for parents.  Of course these can't show up anywhere in the data.