Class of 23 and 24

[MACHETE]

Went back and looked at our 2023 recruiting class, which was ranked #61(transition year after Clown). Out of a class of 20, there are only six players remaining on the roster. Out of the ones who are no longer with the team, only Singleton and Seymore were contributors. That would suggest that the other 12 that we lost were effectively not good enough to get PT.

Contrast that with the class of 2024, ranked #33 composite, where 20 of 23 signees are still with the team.

The class of 2024 is ranked #21 so I would expect even better things from them.

We'll see how things shake out from a transfer perspective after Spring ball but bottom line is recruiting rankings matter in the aggregate.

 

[swampsting]

Went back and looked at our 2023 recruiting class, which was ranked #61(transition year after Clown). Out of a class of 20, there are only six players remaining on the roster. Out of the ones who are no longer with the team, only Singleton and Seymore were contributors. That would suggest that the other 12 that we lost were effectively not good enough to get PT.

Contrast that with the class of 2024, ranked #33 composite, where 20 of 23 signees are still with the team.

The class of 2024 is ranked #21 so I would expect even better things from them.

We'll see how things shake out from a transfer perspective after Spring ball but bottom line is recruiting rankings matter in the aggregate.

But I argue it is what you get out of that class too, not just what's in it.
clown's 2020 class was ranked top 25-30.
By the end, it was Brooks, J. Williams and Boyd left from that ballyhooed class.
The 2010 and 2011 classes were a composite No. 43 overall. But those were the two classes that gave us the seniors and redshirt seniors for the 2014 season. Isaiah, Synjyn, Zenon, Deon Hill, Nealy, Perkins, Smelter, Bostic, Waller, Shaq, Jamal Golden, Zach Laskey, Milton, Errin Joe.
That also pre-dated NIL and transfer portal, which have turned over the apple cart of recruiting.

From 23, we still have MacKenny, who has started a lot at LT. Stockton has shown flashes and Zion Taylor could still contribute.
There's one or two others on the OL and DL who had a lot of upperclassmen ahead of them - Galloway on the OL and Shymeik Jones on the DL. Perhaps it's the same thing with Nico Dowdell in the secondary.
There has been a great deal of attrition from that class, but the ones left are now just entering their redshirt sophomore years. Let's see if they can develop.

 

[00Burdell]

There has been a great deal of attrition from that class, but the ones left are now just entering their redshirt sophomore years. Let's see if they can develop.

Yeah, too early to make the call. And when there is substantial improvement in quality coming in subsequent classes, that can create the impression that the former class was a dud when maybe it wasn't.

 

[GoGATech]

But I argue it is what you get out of that class too, not just what's in it.
clown's 2020 class was ranked top 25-30.
By the end, it was Brooks, J. Williams and Boyd left from that ballyhooed class.

Not defending clown by any means but it's hard to make that comparison because of the age of the transfer portal. Many of those kids saw the writing on the wall before some of us did and got the hell out. If there was no transfer portal and all those class of 20 kids stayed, we would have had:

Brooks, Williams, Boyd, plus Jahmyr Gibbs, Jared Ivey, Nate McCollum, Kyle Kennard, and Akelo Stone. That would have been an extremely solid class by the time they were all Seniors.