Jalen Smith Committed!

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Kid is the most talented player on a very talented team. He plays well in space and is a tackling machine that attacks the ball and usually always is in the right position.
 
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I honestly believe this young and Obviously intelligent man is a great commit but why is he only a 3 star? I know I'm opening a can of worms here but I had to ask.... I've watched tape on Smith and he looks fast in his decision making and hits hard. What do 4-5 stars do.... shoot turbo speed and fly over the lines to make the tackle??

Ty for allowing me to vent

Great pick up
 
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chuckb1448 said:
I honestly believe this young and Obviously intelligent man is a great commit but why is he only a 3 star? I know I'm opening a can of worms here but I had to ask.... I've watched tape on Smith and he looks fast in his decision making and hits hard. What do 4-5 stars do.... shoot turbo speed and fly over the lines to make the tackle??

Ty for allowing me to vent

Great pick up
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Not doing camps can be a reason. I know a young man that was a consensus 4*, declined to attend a service’s camp, and was then demoted to a 3* by them (though they eventually bumped him back up I believe)
 
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chuckb1448 said:
I honestly believe this young and Obviously intelligent man is a great commit but why is he only a 3 star? I know I'm opening a can of worms here but I had to ask.... I've watched tape on Smith and he looks fast in his decision making and hits hard. What do 4-5 stars do.... shoot turbo speed and fly over the lines to make the tackle??

Ty for allowing me to vent

Great pick up
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For the most part (there are exceptions), young football players go from totally unknown outside their home town to rated in just a couple of years.

There are 1.1 million high school football players. 1.1 million. Only about 7% of them will go on to play in college (about 70,000). And only about 10,000 of those will get a rating (any rating, even 2 stars).

So the ratings industry, ESPN and 247 Sports and Rivals and so on, they have a huge task. Just becoming aware of those thousands and thousands of high school players is a massive chore, much less studying them closely enough to make the rating accurate.

Things that help with that:
-- a high school coach who really knows the system, maybe even knows folks at ESPN or 247 to talk up his best players
-- being in a major metropolitan area where the ranking scouts are more likely to see the kid play
-- being invited to and attending the higher-profile camps

So a fella being unrated, or rated low for his measurables, often is simply the rating services not yet having caught up to him. That's probably the case here.

Go Vols!
 
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Not doing camps can be a reason. I know a young man that was a consensus 4*, declined to attend a service’s camp, and was then demoted to a 3* by them (though they eventually bumped him back up I believe)
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Precisely why a lot of these services ought to be taken with a big grain of salt. They seem to add stars and remove stars in response to what good coaches (Sabans of the world) do and who attends their stuff more than their own skill of observing talent. I think they're more of a lagging indicator, is the best way to put it.

I think this guy is a legit 4* on the border of 5* based on his stats alone.
 
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