"With Young, the Rams were very familiar with his game because of UCLA’s proximity to Thousand Oaks."The proximity should have zero to do with it.
Coaches should know to drop players a point BECAUSE they are local and BECAUSE the human tendency is to be biased to people they have heard of going into an evaluation.
They should be more critical of players like that than ones they don't know.
From a talent evaluation standpoint, this is amateur hour.
There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.
