I don’t know about that.
With the caveat that we can only use the reading services available (and I tend to defer to 247), We’ve never had a four-star recruit. And only this year have we had our highest rated ever commitment.
It seems we have been adding Money to the athletic budget in the last few years that helps us identify quality recruits; some thing the P fives already had.
I think the proverbial diamonds in the rough few and far between.
Who decommitted and then flipped to commited to UL
My point isnt about where a kid may or may not go.
I just think the circumstance that the early signing period creates aTremendous and rapid sense of urgency on personnel movement.
If Florida had not said, “ hey Billy Napier, you have to be here before the beginning of December because of recruiting”, ours and other programs like Ours would not be behind the perpetual eight ball.
Man, we don't have any sense of urgency on recruiting right now compared to anyone else who just lost their coach. How many of these guys have hit the transfer portal from other programs? Not saying it isn't important, but. How many UL recruits have decommitted only to recommit somewhere else? One? And the mere fact that one is decommitting to go to a historically top SEC school is like a calling card for these coaches. I'm glad UL doesn't have their class full of over rated recruits most of whom will turn tail & run at the first sign of adversity.
I think MD is spot on in the way he is handling his business at this point. To me, it seems like he is giving guys on his present staff a chance to coach their way up the food chain, or coach their way off the team. And he's got a chance sure up the recruits he has & build new recruits with the transfer portal going full blast. The real test for this staff will be the second signing day. All of this first signing day garbage is for spoiled overly expectant fan bases who are only going to be disappointed anyway.
I’m not necessarily talking about diamonds in the rough. I’m just talking about kids not high on the P5 recruiting boards. We come in early and they sign in December. Meanwhile, if they don’t sign in December they can climb up the P5 recruiting boards due to numerous reasons and sign with a last minute offer from said P5.
Billy's first recruit class here was less than stellar. we just need to get through this rough patch and move on. . Faith fellas.
1) Number of stars tell you nothing about the quality of the athlete, but they can give you some idea about the competitiveness (but again, not the quality) of your recruiting. Remember, Dez had very few offers coming out of HS. Hardly anyone wanted Jake or Babb.
2) Both Billy & Dez have said it's about evaluating the overall package, the fit, the work ethic, the intangibles, and from those, the potential. Rating services have tens of thousands of kids to go through, so they overemphasize size, speed (but not quickness so much, because that can't be measured), flashy stats, and players on winning teams. (Remember, Wuerffel won the Heisman, and he and Jake played together in Europe. Jake eventually advanced to the Superbowl, Wuerffel never made much of a splash.)
3) Probably because they can't do a thorough job, sometimes the rating services have been known to drop a player's rating when he's seriously talking to a mid-major.
4) Recruit smart, train players physically & mentally, win, repeat. The stars (like winning) are a by-product of doing it right.
…Nobody is denying the entire recruiting aspects as being very important…but the biggey this year for us could be the portal or JCs….we badly need OLs and LBers…we need them now…would need somebody to substantiate this but is this about correct?
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