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WeBallinBoyz said:
A Lawayne McCoy flip would have us 11 just a heads up, a smidge behind bama for the #10 spot.

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Bama being at 10 is startling given the last 15 years until you see their player average sitting at 93.48 šŸ˜‚
 
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Gables Cane said:
Thatā€™s our ranking (score) based on total number of recruits? Iā€™m curious where we rank given the quality of our recruits.

Any idea?
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247 is literally reranking kids during the off-season and move you 100 spots if you commit to certain schools who pay them to make their program look better. I. Wouldnā€™t put too much stock into that right now.
 
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Gables Cane said:
Thatā€™s our ranking (score) based on total number of recruits? Iā€™m curious where we rank given the quality of our recruits.

Any idea?
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20th right now. Would probably get us no higher than 18thā€¦too many guys ranked in the 1000ā€™s and sub 650 range brings that down considerably.

Weā€™ll have to see if a lot of these early evals have good senior seasons and get bumps. Still too early to go by average recruit ranking imo. I focus more on that once November-ish rolls around.
 
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Hurracanes said:
247 is literally reranking kids during the off-season and move you 100 spots if you commit to certain schools who pay them to make their program look better. I. Wouldnā€™t put too much stock into that right now.
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Agreed but why dont we pay more? Honestly players would take less to us if we got the royal treatment
 
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The U is back to work said:
Bama being at 10 is startling given the last 15 years until you see their player average sitting at 93.48 šŸ˜‚
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Exactly. All of these are more important indicators of recruiting success than overall class rankings that can be inflated by quantity over quality:

- Average ranking per recruit
- How you fare at the premium positions: QB, WR, OT, DL, CB
[BGCOLOR=initial]- Number of Top 100 overall commits[/BGCOLOR]

Stanford with 22 3* commits and Nebraska with 18 3* commits currently have Top 20 classes. Texas, Oklahoma, and Auburn -- each of whom have 8 4* commits in the composite already -- are below those two programs in the rankings right now simply because they've accepted far fewer commitments from lower-ranked talent.
 
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The U is back to work said:
Bama being at 10 is startling given the last 15 years until you see their player average sitting at 93.48 šŸ˜‚
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Bama started slow last year too (and I assume in previous as well but did not pay close attention) and ended up finishing with the number one class in total points and average (their average with 28 commits last year was actually higher than their average with 13 is right now). They can start slow b/c they know that they can land enough of the plan A top end kids who wait until later in the year to commit. If Miami tried that in the past it usually meant scrambling for plan C kids b/c the plan B kids got tired of waiting on Miami to allow them to commit (a school like Alabama also has the recent history that the plan B kids will wait or flip for them even if offered late). Hopefully (and we have seen some signs of this), Miami can be one of the schools that moves up the ranking as the year goes on as opposed to one who falls as other schools start getting high end commits (or worse, you lose commits).

If anything, it's insane how many kids (and top end ones at that) that UGA already has. As of this post they have the exact same average as Alabama, but have twice as many commits (26 vs 13). Sitting at over 310 pts in mid July is crazy.
 
Shogungts said:
Bama started slow last year too (and I assume in previous as well but did not pay close attention) and ended up finishing with the number one class in total points and average (their average with 28 commits last year was actually higher than their average with 13 is right now). They can start slow b/c they know that they can land enough of the plan A top end kids who wait until later in the year to commit. If Miami tried that in the past it usually meant scrambling for plan C kids b/c the plan B kids got tired of waiting on Miami to allow them to commit (a school like Alabama also has the recent history that the plan B kids will wait or flip for them even if offered late). Hopefully (and we have seen some signs of this), Miami can be one of the schools that moves up the ranking as the year goes on as opposed to one who falls as other schools start getting high end commits (or worse, you lose commits).

If anything, it's insane how many kids (and top end ones at that) that UGA already has. As of this post they have the exact same average as Alabama, but have twice as many commits (26 vs 13). Sitting at over 310 pts in mid July is crazy.
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Things are moving faster than ever, thatā€™s why saying itā€™s only July just doesnā€™t hit for me anymore. 60-75% of the game is already wrapped up by the end of the summer these days. Bama is different though because their track record speaks for itself and they will hit on an unusually high number of kids come December that everyone else just canā€™t expect hope to replicate.
 
Gables Cane said:
Another CIS phenomena is that we are often more excited about the prediction of imminent news concerning new commitments than the actual commitments or players themselves. Itā€™s almost like the commitment announcement itself becomes a ā€œrubber stampā€ of what our brains have already recorded.
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Sometimes the anticipation of vacation is much better than the vacation itself.
 
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