Kevin Cooper

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Kevin Cooper committed to the Vols. He's a 6'1 240 pound running back / fullback from Baylor School in Chattanooga.

Anyone know a little more about Cooper?
 
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not much...he's friends with Juaques Mclendon apparently....the only think i've seen about him is that he could be a fb or rb in a single rb set, and that he apparently is a good pass catcher....

i haven't seen anything else about the kid....but he's an in state guy....and he's got good size, don't know anything about speed....
 
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I saw where Baylor's new Coach was talking about how big he looked and that he was a team leader.
 
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I have a feeling that he will end up playing fullback.
 
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Unrated by rivals. but he did receive other offers. I still dont thinkthat the recruiting is up to par.
 
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Again with the ridiculous "rivals" criteria to decide whether or not a player is good. He had offers from Alabama, North Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia. And, he is 6-1, 240 and plays RB in high school. Comments about him say his is a hard worker, has great hands and feet, and is an old school type player. Rivals is all about hype and combines. If he was out there going to combines and getting his name hyped up he would be "listed" by rivals. Sounds like a good player to fill the FB slot.
 
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(therickbol @ May 2 said:
Again with the ridiculous "rivals" criteria to decide whether or not a player is good. He had offers from Alabama, North Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia. And, he is 6-1, 240 and plays RB in high school. Comments about him say his is a hard worker, has great hands and feet, and is an old school type player. Rivals is all about hype and combines. If he was out there going to combines and getting his name hyped up he would be "listed" by rivals. Sounds like a good player to fill the FB slot.
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Wow, we agree. I've seen him play and I think he will be a very good fullback for them.
 
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arian foster was ranked as the 69th rated back in the nation when he was a senior in high school. when are we going to get over the preseason hype about recruiting?
 
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(texas_vol @ May 2 said:
when are we going to get over the preseason hype about recruiting?
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Not all four and five star rated players pan out and some low/unrated players turn out to be awesome; however, you have to have some way to evaluate the talent. For now this is the best system we have and of course people are going to get caught up in it. This is the first year I have followed early commitments from HS Juniors but when your Top 3 preseason team somehow goes 5-6 you tend to pay more attention to every move that is made.
 
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(texas_vol @ May 2 said:
arian foster was ranked as the 69th rated back in the nation when he was a senior in high school. when are we going to get over the preseason hype about recruiting?
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Hillbilly is correct. OSU, FSU, and USC are recruiting a lot of these kids. Did you see how well those teams did when it came to producing draft picks?
 
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Just a thought here: Perhaps rivals is at least a little more accurate with its evaluation of basketball prospects than football. It just seems that since the number of players in the pool is so much smaller, the rankings would be easier to put together.
 
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(ukvols @ May 2 said:
Just a thought here: Perhaps rivals is at least a little more accurate with its evaluation of basketball prospects than football. It just seems that since the number of players in the pool is so much smaller, the rankings would be easier to put together.
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UK had three MD all americans on the court last year....but you do make a good point. It would certainly be impossible for Rivals or Scout to find every football prospect out there. It is not a perfect rating system, but it reduces the margin of error quite a bit.
 
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Yeah, the argument is not that rivals misses a lot on its 4 and 5 star prospects. The argument is just because rivals DOESNT give a player a big star ranking does not mean that player is not any good. Rivals does not get an equal amount of information/workouts on every player out there. And, then some they rate purely on combine workouts and that doesn't always tell what kind of "football player" a kid is. Now when a kid gets a 5 or 4 star ranking from rivals it does mean that the kid has the tools to be a successful football player in college. But, many kids that dont get the same exposure also have those same tools.
 
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im just not a big believer in recruiting rankins, whether it be be Scout, rivals, whatever.....it's such a crap shoot. and none of those services have the means to properly evaluate all the players out there.

I don't know that anyone ever does this, but has anyone ever gone back and measured the success rate of those services? I wonder what kind of accuracy rate those services have based on thier rankings coming in to College, to where those kids are leaving college....don't even know if it's possible, not sure what criteria you'd use....but i'd bet we'd be shocked at how many of these so called great players out of HS actually panned out in College, and vice versa, the kids that were wildly succsfull in college that weren't ranked highly by a recruiting service....?

 
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Yeah there was actually an article I read today on the rivals frontpage or on espn (I don't remember which). But, the article went through the draft they just had and brought back how much rivals hit or miss with the players taken in the first 2 rounds. Most of the players drafted in the first 2 rounds were 4 and 5 stars. It was about like 40 somthing of them I think. So, definately by no means all of them. The biggest "miss" was Cutler. He was a 2-star coming out of HS. AJ Hawk was only a 3-star. What the article didn't identify were how many 4 and 5 stars from 4/5 years ago did not get drafted.
 
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