Pruitt is 'Cruiting Like Heck!

#52
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508mikey said:
Not sure about this thread after seeing this today Football Class Rankings - ESPN
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(a) ESPN sucks. Use 247 or Rivals.

(b) Doesn't matter where you are in June. Matters where you are in February.

(c) We're around #9 on average recruit ranking for 247. Many of the teams ahead of us in the team rankings are only ahead because of quantity right now.

(d) Bigger point of this post: we have a lot of very elite recruits interested in us right now and if we land a few of them, that average recruit rating and overall ranking are both going to improve.

(e) If Pruitt can coach well and grab top 10 classes, we'll be in good shape. Butch could only do one of those two.
 
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#58
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I’m tired of all these low ball predictions. We have VERY GOOD talent coming in this year. Everyone wants to compare us from last year. This season is going to be fun as hell.
 
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DiderotsGhost said:
(a) ESPN sucks. Use 247 or Rivals.

(b) Doesn't matter where you are in June. Matters where you are in February.

(c) We're around #9 on average recruit ranking for 247. Many of the teams ahead of us in the team rankings are only ahead because of quantity right now.

(d) Bigger point of this post: we have a lot of very elite recruits interested in us right now and if we land a few of them, that average recruit rating and overall ranking are both going to improve.

(e) If Pruitt can coach well and grab top 10 classes, we'll be in good shape. Butch could only do one of those two.
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This.

Except butch got high rankings b/c of volume too. You better be in the top 10 if you sign 30+ in a class.:)

But yeah we're doing just fine on the recruiting front and you get wright, crouch, hill, bogle, Knox, fields among others....maybe taulia, to'oto'o...

Whew. Ain't nobody complaining regardless of the 'rank'.
 
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jakez4ut said:
Except butch got high rankings b/c of volume too. You better be in the top 10 if you sign 30+ in a class.:)
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I'd respectfully disagree with this. Butch's recruiting numbers were great for the 2014 - 2016 classes. They fell off after that.

2014: average star rating .895, natl rank = #7. While this class did have big numbers (32), average ranking was fine. The bigger problem was that there were a lot of busts from this class, but it also included Josh Malone and Derek Barnett. Overall, this class was probably overrated a bit, but less because of "quantity" and more b/c of a extraordinarily high percentage of busts.

2015: average star rating .895, natl rank = #4, 29 commits. This wasn't a huge class quantity-wise, but ranked #4. It included Kamara, Shy Tuttle, K-Mac, DK Jr., Drew Richmond, Jack Jones, Jauan Jennings, Quarte Sapp, Micah Abernathy, John Kelly, and Darrell Taylor. I think this holds up as a top 5 class even if we were to re-rate it based on current knowledge.

2016: average star rating .891, natl rank = #14, but on reduced numbers (22), so quality over quantity class. Included Nigel Warrior, JG, Kongbo, Tyler Byrd, Marquez Callaway, Daniel Bituli, Ryan Johnson, CFA, Brandon Johnson, Marcus Tatum.

2017 was where it dropped off with the average rating dropping to .872. Class included Trey Smith, Ty Chandler, Will Ignont, and Josh Palmer, so there were a few good players there, but very light on depth, and a lot of guys who haven't been huge contributors. And then, Butch's recruiting pretty much collapsed completely for 2018.

Overall, Butch's 2014 class was obviously overrated filled with busts, but 2015 and 2016 classes were excellent. Right now, I think Pruitt is recruiting at a level similar or even higher than the 2015 and 2016 classes, which is great, but really, if he can just coach them better than Butch, I'll be a happy Vol fan :)
 
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508mikey said:
that 247 site shows Georgia with no 3 stars though
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Wouldn't matter, their avg. is @ 95.16 with top 20 players at their projected positions. No denying they are loaded

#1 WR, #2 WDE, #4 WR,#4 TE, #6 ATH, #11 SDE, #15 OT, #16 OT, #18 OLB, #19 ATH
 
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