Sentences with phrase «elite talent»

Yes but then again you're a bad team in need of elite talent if you're picking there to begin with.

When you're picking in the top 10 you have a chance to get elite talent.

In this instance, it's worth paying up for elite talent.

I think he may have 2 - 3 elite talents on his board.

He really has done pretty well with above average talent, but certainly not elite talent.

This works, since recruiting rankings are proof of depth as much as elite talent.

What's more important and what the build through FA crowd fails to recognize is that it's extraordinarily difficult to acquire elite talent through FA.

This metric is quite useful for determining which teams have signed elite talent.

In the first round, the super elite talent is usually gone by the time you get to the 15th pick.

When you cover elite talent, you want nothing more than to see that special player play his or her best when the stage is biggest.

The vast majority of those guys weren't elite talents.

I agree that acquiring elite talent is the only way to win and that the best way to do that is to have multiple high picks.

Young, elite talent in baseball is the most valuable asset to have, and to the extent that our evaluation of him matches or exceeds where his market goes, we will definitely be a player there,» Zaidi said.

The ultimate blue - blood privilege is access to 250 - pound high schoolers who can move, and the Georgia defensive line is loaded with elite talents.

While this won't impact the markets for elite talent like Bryce Harper, a free agent a year from now, it has seen the markets for good - to - great players like Eric Hosmer dry up.

The one area where Clemson hasn't consistently recruited elite talent is the offensive line (and it is the hardest to evaluate and land) and that could be changing with this class.

Both of these historic programs feature elite talent including multiple future NBA draft picks.

I'm not going to try and argue that Cal's not a great coach though (although I would argue that he's not any better at getting elite talent into the NBA).

From the time James entered the league in 2003 to his departure for the Heat in 2010, he carried Cavaliers teams that didn't have elite talent around him.

With Staley old as hell, Brown a bad fit and coming off injury, low confidence at both guard positions, and seemingly only Center looking like a long - term strength, then yes, it would be terrific to add elite talent into the mix.

You only need one elite talent at the LB level in this D. Safeties and pass rush is far more important.

The uneven distribution has caused plenty of corporate hand - wringing, as human resources departments compete to attract elite talent who will stick around.

Sometimes, that's the devilish deal you need to make when retaining elite talent.

Teams that will never have a chance to get elite talent unless they are willing to move up (See Bears missing on Aaron Donald).

He knows elite talent.

A faction of LSU boosters in Houston consider him an offensive mind who's never been given elite talent to work with.

From the college football playoffs, he dominated elite talent, that's what sold me on the kid over Vea.

Sexton elevates his entire game against elite talent and is one hell of a defender when locked in.

I personally think if Wenger was in charge of Real or Barcelona where he could just focus on managing elite talent and not worry about developing it.

They are the next generation of NFL superstars, nine players coming off big years in which they revealed extraordinary talent that has placed them among the elite

Southern California has some of the most fertile recruiting ground in the country, but there evidently is not much room for both UCLA and USC to land and field elite talent.

There are some excellent players there - Ballack, Schweinsteiger and Lahm are / were obviously world - class - but both truly elite talents on that side were being played out of position, with Lahm better suited for right back, Schweinsteiger miscast as a winger and Ballack preferring to sit a little deeper.

A franchise QB surrounded by elite talent can haunt your dreams for over a decade (See: Patriots, New England).

Here's how many blue - chip players have come from every state in the last five years, with each state's national percentage of elite talent attached:

Each of their title - run teams either had Heisman - worthy quarterbacks, elite talent accumulation in a short period, and / or world - ending wackiness.

It mirrored the results I reported above: Texas, Florida, California, & Georgia account for 47.9 % of elite talent over the past 5 years.

With the bulk of the nation's hyper - elite talent coming from the South, it shouldn't be much of a surprise that the Southeastern Conference dominates recruiting on an annual basis.

Coach Sue Phillips and Archbishop Mitty are deep, disciplined and versatile, while coach Tom Gonsalves and St. Mary's possess elite talent and athleticism, but lack depth.

Similarly, fellow elite talents Phil Mickelson, Jason Day and Hunter Mahan have recently been forced to withdraw from tournaments with ailments that, according to them, inhibited their performances.

Tara Kole and Theane Evangelis are first - year associates at two of L.A.'s most elite talent boutiques — Kole at Gang Tyre Ramer & Brown in Beverly Hills and Evangelis at Ziffren Brittenham Branca Fischer Gilbert - Lurie Stiffelman Cook Johnson Lande & Wolf in Century City — firms with client rosters among the most enviable in the business that rarely take on young associates, much less lawyers who are new to private practice.

John has a reputation for high performance and cultivating elite talent and has proven himself as integral to the firm.

Our executive search consultants are especially adept at identifying manager, director, VP, and C - level candidates within the technology industry, one of San Jose's richest job markets, and can source elite talent within multiple related sectors, including engineering, computers, micro processing, and computer science.

It's time to address the LB core with elite talent.

And as elite talents like Marinovich and Junior Seau (final season: 1989) left, he struggled to maintain the same level.

Wenger sees a unique and elite talent in the player and believes that he is still able to fulfil this.

The Matt Canada offense has basically been the equivalent of the Dave Aranda defense — a scheme meant to make the most of versatile players to create advantages that are needed due to lack of elite talent.

Vancouver almost certainly won't be a contender until it can add more elite talent, and its best chance of doing that soon will be landing the No. 1 pick in the 2018 NHL draft.

LSU's bet is that whoever it hires will continue to recruit elite talent, but will turn it into wins more often than Miles did recently.