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[quote=Anonymous]You don't get it. It is not the same thing. Training for football is training for football. Anything they use to evaluate a football player's potential is based on skills they will need on the field. The best sports analog I can come up with is prepping for the cogat is like knowing what pitch is coming in baseball. I can hit the ball consistently if I know exactly what pitch is comming. That is not a useful skill. The skill is to be able to read the pitch as pitched and adjust the swing (or decide not to swing). If you tell Bryce Harper that an inside fastball is comming, he will hit it out of the park every time. The analogy of test prep for the CogAT -- something that does nothing other than increase the CogAT score, which is not a life skill. Similarly, evaluating my hitting, telling me where and what pitches will be thrown might make my hitting look good, but it will not help me in a game.[/quote]
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