I would make the argument that theoretically, we all could point to something that has impacted our ability to learn that we had no control over.  For example, I come from a household where
my Mother and Father dropped out of school in 10th grade because my mother became pregnant with me.  I can remember my Dad learning his multiplication tables when he was in his 20s for tech school.  My parents didn't know what a GPA was or how to caculate it.  They didn't know the difference between a College and a University or a Private Liberal Arts College and a Public School.  Issue resolution in my house was "f this, I am going to the Legion".  Etc etc.  If you don't think those environmental variables severely impacted my ability to learn and or do everything I was capable of you would be mistaken.  I take pride in the fact that I have been able to move on and "break the cycle" so to speak.  My point is that everyone has a story, I don't know that its the Governments Job or my responsibility to spend the cycles attempting to ensure everyone's turns out perfect.

I think there are plenty of controls in place to assist those with LD's to succeed.  I don't think its a best practice or fair to insinuate that one is being greyshirted because they have a LD when most likely statistics would probably reveal its becasue the recruit just didn't do well in school for other reasons most likely unrelated to a LD.

I'm not saying people shouldn't have a fair chance, but this whole ADD, ADHD, so on and so forth phenomenon of the last 20 years introduces a built in out for a lot of people who really just don't understand what "you can" means because everyone has bought off on them saying "I can't".  

I don't mean to offend anyone.  This is a very interesting topic and as such tends to be touchy.

I don't know how Schiano and even Wannstadt are getting so many players out of Florida.  I know the obvious answer is they coached down there for years and built a network, but I don't think thats all there is to it.

I was visiting my family one Winter and was in teh Pittsburgh Airport and couldn't believe the parents that were on my plane flying back to Florida after a Pitt Game.  They all had their shirts on with the names of all the Florida players on the shirts and had some saying that was catchy.

I think you can win with the 2 and 3 star guys...I just think your margin of error is smaller when you are a half step slower or have your backups in against a team that has 4 star guys sitting on the bench.

The 80s and 90s were great for PSU.  But since 2000 only 1 top ten finish.  

I get your point, more four and five star recruits correlates to more success, no doubt.  But correlation is not necessarily causation, and other factors, mostly coaching, contribute.

In college football today most any asshole can go convince the most talented kid to go to your school, just ask Ron Zook.  Shit, you don't even have to find them anymore, just subscribe to Rivals for seven bucks a month then send your best used car salesman to go tell the kid he's going to start right away, and not to worry about school too much because he's a sure fire first round pick.  Then get your wins up, and move on for millions more at the next school, hello Rich Rodriguez.

But, I still trust the old man to look at a kids like Posluzny, Connor, Hunt, Robinson and Lee and say "that's a football player" and I don't think he guessing when he does it either, I think he knows intuitively who can play and who can't.  But when your coach is 80, there is no preventing being a little backward.  JoePa likes people he knows, and so he stays close to home, and deals with people he trusts.  It ain't perfect, but it's what we got.  Let's see how this season goes before we condemn him completely though.  

Not to make excuses, but it's tough when the competition will say anything to a 17 year old kid to get them to come to their school, and your not willing to do the same things.