Recruiting rankings thread

#231
#231
What will be really nice is when we also add Mouhon, Gaulden, Barnett, Lauderdale and likely a couple others before the season starts.
 
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#233
#233
Question:

I know Rivals only counts points for the 20 highest rated players. But when it comes to average star rating, does it count the entire class, or the highest 20 also?
 
#234
#234
Can someone provide an updated list of when all our potential recruits will be making their decisions? It would be good to know who, besides Bates, will be deciding this summer.
 
#236
#236
CroKev said:
Can someone provide an updated list of when all our potential recruits will be making their decisions? It would be good to know who, besides Bates, will be deciding this summer.
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i try to keep track of that in the Dates to look forward to threads
 
#238
#238
Holy ****

How many commits did we have this time last year, like 9?

BUTCH FREAKING JONES!
 
#242
#242
Alot of highly ranked recruits remained uncommitted, and when they finally sign they will most likely do so with the usual suspects, thus boosting the final rankings of those schools. I bet we finish with a top 10-12 class, but the other big boys will leap frog us when all is said and done. I've just seen too many "locks" or "leaning UT" go the other way year after year after year. And it didn't start with Dooley - been happening for several years.
 
#243
#243
PassedOutAwake said:
Question:

I know Rivals only counts points for the 20 highest rated players. But when it comes to average star rating, does it count the entire class, or the highest 20 also?
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Yes the average star ranking is from the whole class...I took Michigan and Florida's class from last year and added up all 29 and 27 commitments respectively and came up with the rating they had....
 
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#245
#245
fade route said:
Alot of highly ranked recruits remained uncommitted, and when they finally sign they will most likely do so with the usual suspects, thus boosting the final rankings of those schools. I bet we finish with a top 10-12 class, but the other big boys will leap frog us when all is said and done. I've just seen too many "locks" or "leaning UT" go the other way year after year after year. And it didn't start with Dooley - been happening for several years.
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True but UT will sign a large class this year and only the first 20 count toward Rivals rankings. The average "stars" unless something dramatic happens will still be between 3.3 and 3.6. However UT could well have a top 5 class since as many as 10 of the lower rated players will not count.
 
#246
#246
I think we also have to look at how many 5 stars we will realistically have a good chance of landing. I believe Hurd gets the bump to 5 star but don't think we land any others.

There have only been 3 schools since 2012 that have finished in the top 10 in recruiting (on Rivals) that had one 5 star or fewer. The one thing that helps are chances of landing a top 10 class is the number of recruits we can take this year - I'm hearing around 30. Rivals only calculates our ratings based on the top 20 recruits in each class. With that, I believe we end up with 12-15, 4 star recruits. That should give us a class ranked between 8-12 come Feb 2014.

Disclosure - This is subject to change should we have a great first year under CBJ. Finish 6-6 with a bowl win and I think we end up with class in the top 8.
 
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sjt18 said:
True but UT will sign a large class this year and only the first 20 count toward Rivals rankings. The average "stars" unless something dramatic happens will still be between 3.3 and 3.6. However UT could well have a top 5 class since as many as 10 of the lower rated players will not count.
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Aside from the recruits ranked beyond #20 being non-factors when tabulating the official class rankings, there is another factor to consider when projecting the final class ranking.

Many of these young men will receive grade bumps that could potentially push them into a 4*, or even a 5* athlete.

This will surely effect all teams, but revealing who will benefit the most from this variable is nearly impossible at this point.

If we drop the recruits who rank outside our top 20 highest commits, then have the good fortune to benefit from the recruit re-evalutions, we have the potentially to finish among the Top5 recruiting classes nationwide.
 
#249
#249
Looking back at the last couple years of Composite, if we sign who I think we will, we'd fall between 8-12th nationally.
 
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