July Commitments

[OCIVol]

Originally Posted by getyopopcornready

So are you saying that July is officially SWAG month?

July is one of the 12 SWAG months

[UT = Checkmate]

Originally Posted by OCIVol

July is one of the 12 SWAG months

What are the other 11?

[wuwh_08]

Swag cannot be all caps because that is a acronym for "Stuff We All Get". So if we continue to use the word Swag please use it in the correct context.:D I kid!

[UTVOLKeith]

We need some difference makers to go along with the projects and certain red shirts.

hoping July is the month...

[VegasBaby!]

Originally Posted by OCIVol

During his tenure at UT, Dooley has received more commitments in July than any other month. Should be another exciting month for recruiting.

Commitments usually spiked during/right after a high school camp. High School Camp I was June 11 - 13 and look at the number of commitments right after that camp. This year High School Camp II is July 16 - 18. Look for some commitments during Camp II week and the following week or so.

[jlindsa4]

Originally Posted by UT = Checkmate

What are the other 11?

Swagnuary, Swagbruary, Swag, Swagpril, Swagay, Swagune, Swaguly, Swagust, Swagtember, Swagtober, Swagvember, Swagcember

[Benchwarmer]

[QUOTE=UTVOLKeith;6886366]We need some difference makers to go along with the projects and certain red shirts.

hoping July is the month...[/QUOTE

Yes, Yes, Yes!

I thought the following comparison might offer some anti-Swag to those who feel good about our recruiting class. We've got a long way to go, men and women, before we should start feeling good. Maybe we'll get there, but I don't see a lot to feel good about yet. So far, this staff is under performing relative to many of our opponents.

Just for the record, I feel good about the upcoming season. I think we win at least eight games and finish in the top 25. Winning more than eight is not unreasonable. But I don't feel as good about having one of the top six recruiting classes in the SEC. Essentially, every commitment we get from here on will have to be in the top 30 at his position for us to finish in the top six.

I used Scout's rankings because it is easy to see at at glance how high a commitment is ranked at his position. That does not mean I think Scout is better at assessing talent.

Here are some SEC schools and the number of commitments they have who are ranked in the top 30 at their position.

Alabama 12
Arkansas 3
Auburn 8
Florida 10
Georgia 10
LSU 9
Missouri 6
South Carolina 4
Texas A&M 13
Tennessee 1

[OCIVol]

[QUOTE=Benchwarmer;6887268]

Originally Posted by UTVOLKeith

We need some difference makers to go along with the projects and certain red shirts.

hoping July is the month...[/QUOTE

Yes, Yes, Yes!

I thought the following comparison might offer some anti-Swag to those who feel good about our recruiting class. We've got a long way to go, men and women, before we should start feeling good. Maybe we'll get there, but I don't see a lot to feel good about yet. So far, this staff is under performing relative to many of our opponents.

Just for the record, I feel good about the upcoming season. I think we win at least eight games and finish in the top 25. Winning more than eight is not unreasonable. But I don't feel as good about having one of the top six recruiting classes in the SEC. Essentially, every commitment we get from here on will have to be in the top 30 at his position for us to finish in the top six.

I used Scout's rankings because it is easy to see at at glance how high a commitment is ranked at his position. That does not mean I think Scout is better at assessing talent.

Here are some SEC schools and the number of commitments they have who are ranked in the top 30 at their position.

Alabama 12
Arkansas 3
Auburn 8
Florida 10
Georgia 10
LSU 9
Missouri 6
South Carolina 4
Texas A&M 13
Tennessee 1

If you're going to star gaze, at least use something better than Scout.

[Benchwarmer]

OCIVol, I think we would see similar results if I used Rivals or another service. Maybe not as bad as Scout makes us look, but still nothing to feel good about. JMO.

[Benchwarmer]

Just to see if Rivals makes us look better, I checked their rankings of our commitments and Florida's. Here are the number of commitments each of us has who are in the top 30 at their position.

Florida 14
Tennessee 5

So, we do look better with Rivals' rankings.

[MrBamSeydu]

[QUOTE=OCIVol;6887286]

Originally Posted by Benchwarmer

If you're going to star gaze, at least use something better than Scout.

Nothing wrong with star-gazing....

but there's definitely something wrong with Scout.

[Benchwarmer]

Here are the number of commitments at various SEC schools who are ranked in the top 30 at their positions by Rivals.

Arkansas 3
Auburn 11
Florida 14
Georgia 13
LSU 15
Missouri 6
South Carolina 8
A&M 15
Tenn 5

I did not see the position rankings of Alabama's commitments, but suffice it to say they have more than 10.

[Tha Don]

Originally Posted by Benchwarmer

Here are the number of commitments at various SEC schools who are ranked in the top 30 at their positions by Rivals.

Arkansas 3
Auburn 11
Florida 14
Georgia 13
LSU 15
Missouri 6
South Carolina 8
A&M 15
Tenn 5

I did not see the position rankings of Alabama's commitments, but suffice it to say they have more than 10.

C'mon man. If you're going to perform this type of comparative analysis at least take the time to look at the number of commitments. Except for Auburn all the schools on the list have far more commitments than we do.

If you account for this skewing of the data, we are in the ballpark.

[justingroves]

Originally Posted by Tha Don

C'mon man. If you're going to perform this type of comparative analysis at least take the time to look at the number of commitments. Except for Auburn all the schools on the list have far more commitments than we do.

If you account for this skewing of the data, we are in the ballpark.

Teflon Don Dooley

[Tha Don]

Originally Posted by justingroves

Teflon Don Dooley

There's a reason Rivals normalizes the data but I digress.