Based off Recruiting rankings (from Rivals)

[keckjm]

True...but based off these numbers, I'm predicting no less than a 7-6 season. Anything less, we should be very disappointed.

Your stats are missing a ton of variables that drastically change they outlook of a football program 3 years later. These numbers don't give a true representation of just how bad our roster has been the last 3 years. If you are basing a 7-5 season on the stats you provided then you are in for a big disappointment.

 

[JohnMarxism]

Based on Florida's recruiting over the past decade, they should have been a top 5 team each season and competing for a national title each year. Obviously, that has not been the case, even with their attrition levels not being poor. Recruiting rankings are a good indicator of success if you take the overall quality of those classes into context.

 

[lonelawyer]

I decided to go back all the way in 2005 to see how our recruiting ranks matched our overall record for those years. Rivals goes as far as 2002, so I took each 3 years prior and that current year to give the AVG Recruiting rank. I only could start in 2005 because of that. So in 2005 it's 2, 18, 20, 4.

2002 - #2 - -------------------
2003 - #18 -------------------
2004 - #20 -------------------
2005 - #4 - FULMER - AVG. #11 - RECORD (5-6)
2006 - #23 FULMER - AVG. #16 - RECORD (9-4)
2007 - #3 - FULMER - AVG. #13 - RECORD (10-4)
2008 - #35 FULMER - AVG. #16 - RECORD (5-7)
2009 - #10 KIFFIN - AVG. #18 - RECORD (7-6)
2010 - #9 - DOOLEY- AVG. #14 - RECORD (6-7)
2011 - #13-DOOLEY- AVG. #17 - RECORD (5-7)
2012- #17- DOOLEY- AVG. #12 - RECORD (5-7)
2013- #21 -JONES - AVG. #15 - RECORD (5-7)
2014 -#5 - JONES - AVG. #14 - RECORD ( ???)
2015 - ??

The one thing clear from this research is inconsistency of Coach Fulmer's recruiting during the last few years of his tenure. Fulmer's strength as a coach was his recruiting and when that slipped he did as well.

 

[I Love Lamp]

I used 2006 and 2007.

In 2006 the incoming class was #23 and AVG was #16.
In 2013 the incoming class was #21 and AVG was #15.

Those numbers are very close.

In 2007 the incoming class was #3 and AVG was #13.
In 2014 the incoming class was #5 and AVG was #14.

Those numbers are very close.

In 2007 they won 1 more game better and was able to reach the SEC championship game for an extra game.

In 2014, we should win 1 more game plus 1 extra to simulate the SEC championship game.

7-6 is my PREDICTION. Book it.

It never ceases to amaze me how people can mark up a bowl win when we don't even know who we would be playing. Carry on though.

 

[HuntsVol_AL]

you CANNOT correlate the equation.. recruiting ranking equals wins.....you have omitted so many variables they would take to long to list.....i suggest sir if you wish to apply math to logic, you do so in a more complete manner. Your logic is entirely flawed thus rendering your equation mute.

Mute? Or moot?

 

[MWAVolfan]

First of all, there is no "Derek Dooley" factor in your equation.

Secondly, the landscape of the SEC had changes a ton since UT was last dominant and recruiting well.

Back then, UT would have had the best, if not near the best recruiting class in the SEC.

Nowadays UT could have the # 4 or 5 best recruiting class and all the other teams above them are also SEC teams.

Look at how well Ole Miss has been recruiting, but it wont translate into dominance because teams like Bama, Auburn, and LSU can recruit even better.

 

[MWAVolfan]

Mute? Or moot?

Hope he means mute

 

[oldfartvol]

so his equation is mute? "recruiting ranking equals wins....." that's what I got from this post, ....jimmys and joes to work the x's and o's

Yep. Deaf as a post. Helen Keller deaf!

It's MOOT, you know, like poot.:crazy:

 

[1972 Grad]

Maybe his equation couldn't here.