The problem with this class is that 90 percent of the prospects are not only friends that want to play together, but they care more about playing for a playoff contender than they do coaching relationships. These kids are all drama for the most part. I’ll give you a big example: Elias Ricks was (and im dead serious about this) was gonna decide to shut down his recruitment ONLY based on if they had beat Alabama. If they had lost he would have decommitted, and I’ve heard some people say he’s still gonna hold off and sign with whoever wins the national championship. This time last year, Rakim Jarrett was on IG live bragging about how 4 of his top 6 were playoff caliber teams. This class only cares about who the hot team is playoff picture wise. That’s why LSU, Ohio State, Alabama, Georgia and Clemson are getting pretty much all the 5 stars. Usually about half those kids would spread out between schools like Michigan, Penn State, Oregon, Texas, FSU, Oklahoma, Auburn, USC, Stanford and us. With the 1 occasional kid going to the oddball school like Iowa or Purdue. They’re not even doing that. Everything between 8-17 in this class is actually pretty close and that’s the range we’ll be in after signing day, but the top 6-7 are loaded. As for A&M, it’s becuase they’re in the middle of Texas and sites are EXTREMELY generous with players from the state as far as their ranking is concerned. Their 7-5 is a whole lot different from ours because 4 of those losses are against teams that could’ve made the CFP. They’ve also recruited the right type of kid as a lot of them are loyal to their word. If LSU goes the usual 9-3, all these kids their getting flip to Alabama or Georgia. We’re gonna pass the schools like UNC, FSU and Penn State and finish around where we did last year, but it’s not this staffs fault they didn’t finish higher. If they were recruiting the 2019 group over again with this season to sell, we finish top 5 because a lot of those kids actually cared about coaching relationships and what school was gonna help them grow. This group only cares about twitter followers and who’s ranked in the top 10. I know there’s kids like that in every class but this time it’s damn near the entire group. I think next year that changes because a lot of the blue chip guys are looking at schools like Texas, Penn State, Washington, etc. and we’ll be able to jump in on those guys easier. Dylan Brooks, Isaiah Johnson, Payton Page, Lee Hunter, Troy Franklin are some big names to watch. It’ll be a whole lot more fun next cycle
