Rival's Recruiting Points

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Was taking a look at Rivals and saw that we moved up 2 slots in recruiting. We are now ranked at 50 instead of 52.
This got my curiosity up so I did some finiglerating and found that we are in a race with Tennessee.
UT is ranked in 9th place in the SEC while we are in 9th place in the ACC.
This is bound to help the Tennessee fan's moral.
Also while in the world of high math, I see that we are 2,265 points behind leader Florida, but only 1,816 points behind Fla State, our inhouse candidate.
One has to wonder, HOW IN THE WORLD WILL WE EVER BE A CONTENDER WHEN WE ARE RANKED SO FAR BEHIND THE LEADERS?
Alas, but not to worry !!!!
Appalachian State answered that query this past year, not only by beating Michigan, but right there in their front yard if front of everybody.
Maybe there's a lesson in life in there somewhere that we need to look for, like with David and Goliath.
Hopefully in the near future, our new HC will have to beat blue chippers off with a stick.
Hopefully in the near future, we can draw those highly rated prospects in here like flies and ants at a Sunday picnic.
Hopefully we.....ahhhhh, you get the picture.
 
romegajacket said:
Was taking a look at Rivals and saw that we moved up 2 slots in recruiting. We are now ranked at 50 instead of 52.
This got my curiosity up so I did some finiglerating and found that we are in a race with Tennessee.
UT is ranked in 9th place in the SEC while we are in 9th place in the ACC.
This is bound to help the Tennessee fan's moral.
Also while in the world of high math, I see that we are 2,265 points behind leader Florida, but only 1,816 points behind Fla State, our inhouse candidate.
One has to wonder, HOW IN THE WORLD WILL WE EVER BE A CONTENDER WHEN WE ARE RANKED SO FAR BEHIND THE LEADERS?
Alas, but not to worry !!!!
Appalachian State answered that query this past year, not only by beating Michigan, but right there in their front yard if front of everybody.
Maybe there's a lesson in life in there somewhere that we need to look for, like with David and Goliath.
Hopefully in the near future, our new HC will have to beat blue chippers off with a stick.
Hopefully in the near future, we can draw those highly rated prospects in here like flies and ants at a Sunday picnic.
Hopefully we.....ahhhhh, you get the picture.
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What we need is a basketweaving degree offered? Hopefully....
 
romegajacket said:
Was taking a look at Rivals and saw that we moved up 2 slots in recruiting. We are now ranked at 50 instead of 52.
This got my curiosity up so I did some finiglerating and found that we are in a race with Tennessee.
UT is ranked in 9th place in the SEC while we are in 9th place in the ACC.
This is bound to help the Tennessee fan's moral.
Also while in the world of high math, I see that we are 2,265 points behind leader Florida, but only 1,816 points behind Fla State, our inhouse candidate.
One has to wonder, HOW IN THE WORLD WILL WE EVER BE A CONTENDER WHEN WE ARE RANKED SO FAR BEHIND THE LEADERS?
Alas, but not to worry !!!!
Appalachian State answered that query this past year, not only by beating Michigan, but right there in their front yard if front of everybody.
Maybe there's a lesson in life in there somewhere that we need to look for, like with David and Goliath.
Hopefully in the near future, our new HC will have to beat blue chippers off with a stick.
Hopefully in the near future, we can draw those highly rated prospects in here like flies and ants at a Sunday picnic.
Hopefully we.....ahhhhh, you get the picture.
Click to expand...

What we need is a basketweaving degree offered. Hopefully....
 
There is far too much parity in college football to believe in recruiting rankings. Fact is you put any 18 year old through 2 years of riding the pine and college conditioning and every college is cranking out 20 year olds who can play all the positions.
 
I suggest everybody take a look at how they determine the points. On players, they're trying to rank them nationally. So just how do you justify someone who's ranked #43 being better than someone who's ranked #60? And just what does that mean? Are they almost twice as good or is it a matter of 2-3% in overall performance (assuming they could somehow judge that)?

Then look at team rankings. On Scout they talk about having a balanced class. But what if you don't need a balanced class? What if you have 12 guys who can play CB on the roster and so you don't recruit any? What if you take 4 QBs because you don't have anybody recruiting. Who is Scout to decide what a team needs? They also talk about body types at positions. What? Can they kid play or not? Who cares what his body type is.

This is such an inexact process that calling it an inexact science is an insult to inexact sciences. I'm not saying that people can make general judgements on player's ability but they simply can't be that precise.
 
Recruiting rankings are somewhat indicative of future performance, however, they are not the end all.
 
romegajacket said:
Hopefully in the near future, our new HC will have to beat blue chippers off with a stick.
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By golly if somebody is tough enough to get beat off with a stick and like it then they are probably tough enough to play major college football. My nether regions are way too tender for that sort of action.
 
gthog61 said:
By golly if somebody is tough enough to get beat off with a stick and like it then they are probably tough enough to play major college football. My nether regions are way too tender for that sort of action.
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:hugelaugh: :hugelaugh:

Best post of '08 so far!
 
Don't let the stars get in your eyes...

Speaking of stars, I just saw that Scout has all our recruits at three stars now. Man, the last few recruits sure got good in a hurry. :laugher:
 
You will find that PJ will get these guys playing as a team, and I'd rather have a team full of three stars that play as a team than a bunch of five stars playing for themselves. You can bet that every GT player will understand the meaning of TEAM if they play for PJ.

As you can see, the coaches are recruiting speed and more speed. That's PJ's calling card when he can get it. He had a hard time doing that at Navy, but his GSU teams were lightening fast compared to their competition.

Uzzi will be huge if GT can get him. I can tell you that he's probably the coaches' top target right now.
 
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