Talent Comparison Game by Game 2014

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tennesseeduke

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Tennessee vs. Utah St.

Rivals teams recruiting rankings:

2011 UT #13 Utah St. #78
2012 UT #17 Utah St. #117
2013 UT #21 Utah St. #105
2014 UT #5 Utah St. #106

IMHO like last year when everyone was squawking about how tough Western Kentucky was going to be with Bobby Petrino, UT was way more talented and it proved out on the field. Same for our opener this year. This should give us some indicator for each game of talent vs. talent and coach vs. coach!

UT 42 vs. Utah St 17

I will try to do this game by game for the 2014 season.

:loco:

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tennesseeduke said:
Tennessee vs. Utah St.

Rivals teams recruiting rankings:

2011 UT #13 Utah St. #78
2012 UT #17 Utah St. #117
2013 UT #21 Utah St. #105
2014 UT #5 Utah St. #106

IMHO like last year when everyone was squawking about how tough Western Kentucky was going to be with Bobby Petrino, UT was way more talented and it proved out on the field. Same for our opener this year. This should give us some indicator for each game of talent vs. talent and coach vs. coach!

UT 42 vs. Utah St 17

I will try to do this game by game for the 2014 season.

:loco:

Tennesseeduke
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Please this kind of analysis is so silly. Do you think Vegas cares? Good grief, these are the worst.....
 
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hep said:
He ruffled your feathers.
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Well, it's silly. Number one, they have nfl prospects that were not rated highly at all coming out of high school. That right away invalidates anything anybody knows about Utah state. If their qb is healthy, he is one of the best in the nation. He was not rated highly. It's a bunch of nonsense. We don't even have many 2011 recruits still on the roster and no way they were truly rated that high in hindsight. Once you have the benefit of seeing players, what they were in high school is out! Do you think the nfl drafts players from rivals ratings? :eek:lol:
 
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tennesseeduke said:
Tennessee vs. Utah St.

Rivals teams recruiting rankings:

2011 UT #13 Utah St. #78
2012 UT #17 Utah St. #117
2013 UT #21 Utah St. #105
2014 UT #5 Utah St. #106

IMHO like last year when everyone was squawking about how tough Western Kentucky was going to be with Bobby Petrino, UT was way more talented and it proved out on the field. Same for our opener this year. This should give us some indicator for each game of talent vs. talent and coach vs. coach!

UT 42 vs. Utah St 17

I will try to do this game by game for the 2014 season.

:loco:

Tennesseeduke
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The only thing is that 15 of 27 players in the #13 rated class of 2011 have either left, or never see the field.

And 13 of 22 players in the #17 class of 2012 have either left, or never see the field.

So....no matter what your analysis says....the stats don't mean squat here bro.

UT has been bitten hard by the bug of attrition and Dooley. Those were good classes by the ratings, but they don't do us much good if they're not on the field.

UT wins...but not because of it's Rival rankings.
 
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BeattieFeathers said:
Well, it's silly. Number one, they have nfl prospects that were not rated highly at all coming out of high school. That right away invalidates anything anybody knows about Utah state. If their qb is healthy, he is one of the best in the nation. He was not rated highly. It's a bunch of nonsense. We don't even have many 2011 recruits still on the roster and no way they were truly rated that high in hindsight. Once you have the benefit of seeing players, what they were in high school is out! Do you think the nfl drafts players from rivals ratings? :eek:lol:
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Kind of the point of the thread!

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BeattieFeathers said:
Please this kind of analysis is so silly. Do you think Vegas cares? Good grief, these are the worst.....
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So you are saying that talent rankings and *'s mean nothing? All coaching evaluation and development in your opinion?

Just curious. This is the point of the thread. Everyone is always griping about well we get a 3* kid and why not a 5*. We can use this season to take a look at how that actually plays out in regards to each team on the schedule.

:hi:

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tennesseeduke said:
So you are saying that talent rankings and *'s mean nothing? All coaching evaluation and development in your opinion?

Just curious. This is the point of the thread. Everyone is always griping about well we get a 3* kid and why not a 5*. We can use this season to take a look at how that actually plays out in regards to each team on the schedule.

:hi:

Tennesseeduke
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Not when the kids with the *'s are no longer here.

If you make this point in another 4 years, and we haven't lost over 50% of the classes in point, then it may be a valid way to look at things. But for today, it's not.

Luckily, the past two classes are still mostly all on campus, and will hopefully all contribute. Bringing in most of them as EE's go a long way for that.
 
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After evaluating the information contained in this thread one can conclude that Tennessee has consistently out recruited utah st. We will not lose that game. :no:
 
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tennesseeduke said:
So you are saying that talent rankings and *'s mean nothing? All coaching evaluation and development in your opinion?

Just curious. This is the point of the thread. Everyone is always griping about well we get a 3* kid and why not a 5*. We can use this season to take a look at how that actually plays out in regards to each team on the schedule.

:hi:

Tennesseeduke
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Look at last season. Some actually think that Tennessee had better players than Carolina. We don't win if Conner shaw doesn't get hurt.....probably. We beat them one out of 10 times and we were better that day, but we did not have the best players. The ratings say we did! Stupid.....
 
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tennesseeduke said:
Tennessee vs. Utah St.

Rivals teams recruiting rankings:

2011 UT #13 Utah St. #78
2012 UT #17 Utah St. #117
2013 UT #21 Utah St. #105
2014 UT #5 Utah St. #106

IMHO like last year when everyone was squawking about how tough Western Kentucky was going to be with Bobby Petrino, UT was way more talented and it proved out on the field. Same for our opener this year. This should give us some indicator for each game of talent vs. talent and coach vs. coach!

UT 42 vs. Utah St 17

I will try to do this game by game for the 2014 season.

:loco:

Tennesseeduke
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Why can't we thumbs down posts?
 
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TNHopeful505 said:
The only thing is that 15 of 27 players in the #13 rated class of 2011 have either left, or never see the field.

And 13 of 22 players in the #17 class of 2012 have either left, or never see the field.

So....no matter what your analysis says....the stats don't mean squat here bro.

UT has been bitten hard by the bug of attrition and Dooley. Those were good classes by the ratings, but they don't do us much good if they're not on the field.

UT wins...but not because of it's Rival rankings.
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It is all in the *****.
 
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