When Lang was giving out plays when he worked for Eddie Roman he gave out 3 plays a day. When Lang was a 3 plays a day handicapper he was as bad or worse than Northcoast. Take a look at Phil Steele / Northcoast's College Football magazine. It's all chalk every year. to finish 1st, 2nd and 3rd in each conference. He hasn't picked a surprise team like TCU last year or Arizona or Missouri this year to do well in the 10 years I have purchased the magazine. All he is from my study is an information gatherer.
You have Phil Steel down to a tee!!
He does and has done everything in the EXACT same manner as he has since he started NC around 40 years ago even if
they don't work which has obviously been the case for a long time and especially over the last few years.
When I was at another forum which is now defunct, one of the insiders told me that Steele is incredibly arrogant and that when
a game doesn't cover it is not because of his handicapping skills but because the team(s) didn't do what his impeccable
handicapping stated that they were supposed to do!!
Using different handicapping criteria and/or at least updating the current ones to how games are played today as opposed to
20-40 years ago is a no-no with him!!
This type of arrogance applies in fact to everything surrounding NC.
I mean think of it for a minute; his phony/bogus promotion discounts tied to his newsletter subscriptions are exactly the
same as when he started NC, way back when, and never has changed, his scandalous lies of omission, spin, using favorable time frames
and selectivity with his record-keeping is the same as it has always been as well as his SCRIPTED Games of Something
that are not based on merits but on marketing needs only!!
And yes you are quite correct in referring to his magazines as information gatherers!!
This also applies to his weekly publications where Steele compiles as much shit as he can into them to stoke his ego and show people
out there how much information he can gather as opposed to other services that only gather a fraction of how much he does!!
He also brags about his 100 -100 hour-a-week-plus work week to compile this mostly useless garbage for gambling purposes!!!
The bottom line though as you overall he sits near the bottom whereas virtually all of the services that sit near the top put in
a TINY percentage of the time and effort that he does.
What the better cappers also possess that Steele does not have and never will is just a plain old intuitive sense based on not
only stats but an overall feel for games!!
Thanks to anyone who took the time to read this.
As usual, when I post something that I consider worthy, I will also email this to Phil Steele, not that I expect Mr know-it-all
to consider anything I say worth considering!!