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While I am somewhat new to following recruiting as closely as I am now, I have made one observation regarding recruiting sites ranking recruits. We see jumps and drops for recruits that don't seem to make sense, on a regular basis. My thoughts on this, and I am sorry if this has been written before on this board.
These recruiting websites increase the value of the recruit based upon their thoughts on how the player will be coached (based upon his recruiting leans) in addition to the obvious other factors of speed, etc. I see how once someone commits to The U they lose stars or rankings. For me this made perfect sense, we have had terrible coaches for so long that if we got a 4 star player we could easily coach them down to a 2 star player. How many players from The U blossom once they got away from Golden, Shannon and Coker. While the same player under a good coach would excel while in college.
The recruiting services get paid by being right. Well, if I was judged based upon how I looked 2-3 years down the road I would certainly take how they will be coached and utilized when in college into serious account. If Ed Reed played under Golden who the **** knows what could have happened to one of the GOAT canes.
I predict this will change with the coaching staff we have currently. The players we have will start to fulfill potential and even exceed it, hence they should get ratings bumps once they commit here.
Time will tell...
These recruiting websites increase the value of the recruit based upon their thoughts on how the player will be coached (based upon his recruiting leans) in addition to the obvious other factors of speed, etc. I see how once someone commits to The U they lose stars or rankings. For me this made perfect sense, we have had terrible coaches for so long that if we got a 4 star player we could easily coach them down to a 2 star player. How many players from The U blossom once they got away from Golden, Shannon and Coker. While the same player under a good coach would excel while in college.
The recruiting services get paid by being right. Well, if I was judged based upon how I looked 2-3 years down the road I would certainly take how they will be coached and utilized when in college into serious account. If Ed Reed played under Golden who the **** knows what could have happened to one of the GOAT canes.
I predict this will change with the coaching staff we have currently. The players we have will start to fulfill potential and even exceed it, hence they should get ratings bumps once they commit here.
Time will tell...