Here's what I know on Mark Matthews...

[No_Fly_Zone]

If you’re looking for something tangible, it’s just a (small) crack in the armor that coaches will use to negatively recruit.

How tangible is this? Likely not much, but I’m answering your question. It’s not entirely a twitter trolling situation.

There are coaches, 100.0%, who will tell other recruits Miami can’t even keep their homegrown stars home, something’s wrong, blah blah blah.

It also impacts future recruits. Again, albeit in a very small capacity, but it is a data point. LSU gets **** near every single kid they want from Louisiana. Why? Because it’s drilled into every kid’s head from birth. You’re a baller? You go to Baton Rouge like *waves hand at 500 elite local players*. It’s not realistic to get every single SFL kid we want, but the more we do get, the more kids in future classes see that and it’s hammered home over and over that your best option is to stay home.

Getting this worked up over one kid at the one position we trust our staff to produce is peak CIS. Get ahold of yourselves. We’re more than fine.

But there are actual real-life impacts. They’re just not exactly crippling, like most people here want to portray. Go the **** on to College Station. Enjoy yelling at midnight. We’re just fine over here.

Actual impact and perceivable miss, but one our staff should be able to overcome... especially at OL.

 

[Bigzook]

Just remember Samson is still here and was a 5star tackle coming out of HS … OL is the last position i worry about with our coaching staff … LB’s and DT’s are the only spots i really want us to get better at recruiting

 

[Dwinstitles]

For the record, I said if the staff doesn’t land a top 10 class, the rep would take a hit. Not just MM. Missing on him would just be a lowlight to also not landing a top 10 class. But from what I’m reading, recruiting ranking don’t matter anymore all the sudden? Must have missed that memo.

I do understand for sure it is a hit but as long as we got no cut Nick we good. To me he was a bigger recruit then Russel by 100 miles, MM is elite asf but we can’t force dude. Depending on who we pivot to we shall see if it hurts us, and we got till NSD. If we flip DJ and or Bryant I would not lose sleep over MM. If we also got Brysen Wright I won’t even care bruh, let MM go wear those military uniforms. Asher as well, bring me those monsters and I trust Mario can patch the OL eventually.

 

[Calinative]

For the record, I said if the staff doesn’t land a top 10 class, the rep would take a hit. Not just MM. Missing on him would just be a lowlight to also not landing a top 10 class. But from what I’m reading, recruiting ranking don’t matter anymore all the sudden? Must have missed that memo.

The only way we aren't signing a top 10 class would purely be because a couple of the 10 teams ahead of us have substantially more volume than us.
We are currently 9th on the composite with 11 commits (8th by average). Every team ranked ahead of us has between 2-10 more commits than us right now.

Teams I'd be surprised for us to finish higher than: A&M, Ohio St, Texas
Tossup but lean better than us: Oregon, ND
Tossup but lean worse than us: USC, LSU, UGA, TTU, UF*, OU*
Schools we will have a better class than: Michigan, UCLA*, PSU
* = Schools I think will chace volume and for that reason alone could technically finish with more "points" than us.

 

[RVACane]

Anyone else like me, just happy to be relevant and competitive again??? Like it’s great that we’re in these big national recruitments - and not simply as a hat to discard - we actually win some of them.

 

[RVACane]

Just remember Samson is still here and was a 5star tackle coming out of HS … OL is the last position i worry about with our coaching staff … LB’s and DT’s are the only spots i really want us to get better at recruiting

Welcome to CIS.

Those are two areas of need. It’s random but I’d also like us to get better at recruiting centers out of high school. I don’t know how we don’t land a top one every other year or so.