UT moving up in recruiting rankings

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Rooster1 said:
The East is recruiting well, hopefully the days of the West dominating are over.

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No offense, but I'm flat out done caring about our recruiting class rankings until I see how Pruitt handles their development and uses them on game day.

I admittedly was a stargazer back in the day but I have now learned none of that matters if you have a sh!t head coach.
 
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MWAVolfan said:
No offense, but I'm flat out done caring about our recruiting class rankings until I see how Pruitt handles their development and uses them on game day.

I admittedly was a stargazer back in the day but I have now learned none of that matters if you have a sh!t head coach.
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i think that probably should go w/out saying. but it has to start somewhere, and the thing that should have most of us feeling better about recruiting is just the type of guy the want.

this team is going to 'look' different going forward. bigger/longer.........if nothing else, when we got out on the field against Bama, UGA, UF, etc...we'll be able to go eye to eye with them.......:eek:lol:

and the kids we're going after, are in a lot of cases, the same ones our competitors are going after.

there's going to be an upgrade in talent.

development....well, we gotta wait on that.
 
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thunder5 said:
I just counted 6 teams in the west that are ranked ahead of us in those rankings
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look at the average. the reason there's that many teams ahead is just total points; they have more commitments than we do right now.

on average, we're 4th in the SEC (10th nationally)...UGA, BAma, Aub, TN. and the gap between us and Aub is miniscule.

not sure how that holds up by Dec/Feb, but it is an indicator that the overall talent level is on the rise.

not like when Butch would sign 25+ and wind up in the top 7. quantity over quality, with high attrition to follow.

this will be quality over quantity.
 
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jakez4ut said:
look at the average. the reason there's that many teams ahead is just total points; they have more commitments than we do right now.

on average, we're 4th in the SEC (10th nationally)...UGA, BAma, Aub, TN. and the gap between us and Aub is miniscule.

not sure how that holds up by Dec/Feb, but it is an indicator that the overall talent level is on the rise.

not like when Butch would sign 25+ and wind up in the top 7. quantity over quality, with high attrition to follow.

this will be quality over quantity.
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Agree with this. Tennessee is being slllllooooooooow locking up commitments and those other schools have more that UT at the moment.
 
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jakez4ut said:
i think that probably should go w/out saying. but it has to start somewhere, and the thing that should have most of us feeling better about recruiting is just the type of guy the want.

this team is going to 'look' different going forward. bigger/longer.........if nothing else, when we got out on the field against Bama, UGA, UF, etc...we'll be able to go eye to eye with them.......:eek:lol:

and the kids we're going after, are in a lot of cases, the same ones our competitors are going after.

there's going to be an upgrade in talent.

development....well, we gotta wait on that.
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The take away for me is that it is apparently very easy to hype your way into a good recruiting class or two but you get exposed as a fraud if you can't coach them. 5 stars means absolutely nothing if the players high school coaches were better than you are.
 
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thunder5 said:
I just counted 6 teams in the west that are ranked ahead of us in those rankings
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Based on quantity, yes. Based on quality, no. From the West I believe only Bama and Auburn are ahead, Auburn barely, and only UGA in the East.

Edit: Jake has it covered.
 
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MWAVolfan said:
Agree with this. Tennessee is being slllllooooooooow locking up commitments and those other schools have more that UT at the moment.
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yep. and that's by design. they're being pretty deliberate in their approach. and they understand that there's some of the top tier guys that are going to wait and see what we look like on the field before pulling the trigger.

and they're fine with that. bottom line, i don't know of any prospect that they've legitimately gone after that has told them to knock it off.

we have legitimate shots at some really good players this cycle, and yeoman's work is already being done on the 20 kids. this staff believes in relationships, and from what i can tell, the kids seem to respond to it. some, so much so they've committed. others, at least to the point they continue to listen and build the relationship.
 
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4-8 (0-8 SEC)
New coaching staff
We should all be grateful and consider ourselves lucky to have the players committed to UT that we do already.
After 10 years of mediocrity, it's a start.
I'm originally from Tennessee. Went to school at UT (Hess Hall and Kappa Alpha)
Start winning=Better players
Keep losing= Not as good as Bama, Georgia, Florida, South Carolina and LSU
 
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jakez4ut said:
look at the average. the reason there's that many teams ahead is just total points; they have more commitments than we do right now.

on average, we're 4th in the SEC (10th nationally)...UGA, BAma, Aub, TN. and the gap between us and Aub is miniscule.

not sure how that holds up by Dec/Feb, but it is an indicator that the overall talent level is on the rise.

not like when Butch would sign 25+ and wind up in the top 7. quantity over quality, with high attrition to follow.

this will be quality over quantity.
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Agree Jake. Average star rating/quality trumps quantity. Clemson has been a good example of this the last 3-4 years.
 
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MWAVolfan said:
The take away for me is that it is apparently very easy to hype your way into a good recruiting class or two but you get exposed as a fraud if you can't coach them. 5 stars means absolutely nothing if the players high school coaches were better than you are.
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it is when you get funky with the # of signatures you can take, which is what we did under CBJ. it was a shotgun approach.

it's just a function of how the rankings are made, by total points, so in those years you'd sign 25+ kids, it'd be hard not to see a ranking bump. the highest ranked class CBJ brought in here was, i think if ircc, that class he signed 32...the one after that was 30 kids. 62 kids in two classes, both top 7 nationally.

lots of points. and drama, and attrition. neither class broke a 90 average, and while both classes showed high rankings, if you re rank them both by the average, they're both outside the top 10.

quantity over quality. not say that they were all bad players obviously, but you get the idea.
 
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I’d just as soon the east remain weak! Who needs to have to recruit against FL GA MO & SC when they’re good??
 
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I flat out do care about recruiting rankings, even if it is just May, that's why I'm in this recruiting rankings thread.

We've a long way to go but how can I not be at least interested? This is part of it IMO. Butch sucked, he gone, let's see what Jeremy gone do!! We only have 8, but they seem to be a pretty good 8 Like KB and Jake have already said.
 
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McDad said:
Now I'm sad again.
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I remember about this time last year Alabama and Georgia were both ranked in the high 20's and low 30's. Some were wondering.. wtf?

I think we good for now. Jmo.
 
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Behr said:
I flat out do care about recruiting rankings, even if it is just May, that's why I'm in this recruiting rankings thread.

We've a long way to go but how can I not be at least interested? This is part of it IMO. Butch sucked, he gone, let's see what Jeremy gone do!! We only have 8, but they seem to be a pretty good 8 Like KB and Jake have already said.
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the recruiting rankings are what they are, and i don't think they should have any real value. at least not so much to say "recruiting was #7, so we should be a top 10 team".

it doesn't work that way, and i hate it when i see that. it's just so arbitrary.

and there's nothing arbitrary about how/why this staff offers a kid, regardless of his 'rank'.
 
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Behr said:
I remember about this time last year Alabama and Georgia were both ranked in the high 20's and low 30's. Some were wondering.. wtf?

I think we good for now. Jmo.
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well, last year we were around 60, and in 2 months he got us to 20.

we're at 20 in May this year, and 7 months to dec, and 9 to Feb.

i'd lean toward 'we good' as well.:thumbsup:
 
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