Pretty simple. If we look at the 2021-2022 CDS for Williams, the test score spread for the 25th to 75th percentile: EBRW 720/770; M740/790; ACT 33/35. 90% of matriculates who were ranked by their HS were in the top 10%. Harvard’s CDS 730/780; 750/800; 33/36; 93.1%. Seems like a pretty similarly qualified group of students who end up at these 2 schools. Don’t know how you can conclude that the “top kids are not gunning for LACs”.
I agree. And as great as Fouts was, Marino didn’t have nearly the receiver supporting cast that Fouts had: Winslow, Chandler, Joiner, and James Brooks and Chuck Muncie in the backfield. Poor Dan … Don Shula was never able to build a running game for him, nor a reliable defense. For a stretch of about 6 or 7 years he was as good or better a pure passer as the League has seen. That season in 1984 was other worldly when you consider the milestones he set, that he was a second year player and that, again, Miami didn’t have great players around him other than Dwight Stephenson.
My opinion is that your post is pretty compelling.
My opinion is the thread has run its course