Recruiting Football Talk VII

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OrangenSC said:
And the people who are whining that we haven't gotten commits late are probably the same ones who, the past couple of years, were whining because we weren't getting them earlier.
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Our class is good in key positions and added quality depth. The 2WRs are as good as any in the country. We missed on Seaton, but with our whole starting OL returning except Lane we are in good shape there. QB is really good pickup.

Where we missed is DT and TE recruiting. I think we fixed TE with the portal and Harrison. DT is fine this year, but would have been good to bring in quality depth.

In other words, class is great in some places and not good enough in others
 
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mrMet said:
I was told it was going to drop the other day though from someone who knows it all and got blocked because of it!!! So you must be wrong or mistaken

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Butch Jones taught me class ranking means a lot less. That dude played the rankings and never brought in talent except for the top 5-8 in the class.
 
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MoCo_Vol said:
Butch Jones taught me class ranking means a lot less. That dude played the rankings and never brought in talent except for the top 5-8 in the class.
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I was looking earlier today while talking to a couple buddies. The 2014 class (7th overall), he whiffed on 11 of the 16 4* he took. Only 1 5* (Jalen Hurd) but he did hit on a couple 3*. Just wild

2015 he whiffed on pretty much every OL as well
 
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Oddly enough I'm pretty damn excited for a last minute add the most. Jeremias Heard, 6'7" 305lbs assuming he'll play DL (RG is his primary) but he also played part-time TE. Could be a monster if he's developed.

Edit: On3 has him listed at 6'8" :oops: he also played basketball and did track/field (shot put/disc throwing)
 
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Wait wait, hold the phones

Can anyone tell me how we landed the #1 players in MO and CO??

Can someone with a twitter remind Marrow, Prime, and Dorktwitz.
 
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UTProf said:
I agree with Christian Lowe somewhat. It does take a lot of excitement out of the regular season. Except for the rare year like this one, having a loss has proven meaningless for brand name teams, especially SEC and B1G teams. When we were in the hunt post-BAMA, we knew we could drop the UGA game and it wouldn't matter and when it happened no one was upset (well, dawg fans were upset because they knew it didnd't matter). And that was with just 4 teams in the invitational.**

When the invitational expands to 16, the regular season isn't going to mean what it used to mean. And given realignment, a genuine invitational that invites the best teams is going to have 3 and 4 loss SEC and B1G teams if they're picking the best teams.

**The college system is def. an invitational rather than a playoff given that eye tests, brand name, tv market, player injuries, coach popularity etc. all matter more than scheduling and on the field results.
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A 3 or 4 loss team won’t be in the playoff most years unless they win their conference. There will even be some years that a 2 loss team won’t get in.

If you look at the last 3 years, almost every top 12 team in the CFB Rankings had 2 or less losses. The only exceptions in the past 3 years were Utah (2021 and 2022) and Kansas State last year that had 3 losses and they were in the top 12 because they won their conference against a team with less than 2 losses.

On top of that, based off the NCAA website outlining the format, the 5 P5 conference winners and the highest rated G5 conference winner gets auto bids. Thats now only 6 spots for at large bids who didn’t win their conference. Just using last year as an example:

Auto Bids: UGA, Michigan, TCU, Clemson, Utah (3 losses), Kansas State (3 losses), and Tulane would have bad auto bids.

At-large Bids: Ohio State (1 loss), Alabama (2 losses), UT (2 losses), USC (2 losses), Penn State (2 losses), Washington (2 losses).

Chaos can happen and maybe 1 or 2 at large bids go to 3 loss teams, but it’ll be the exception and not the rule. Heck, 2 of the 3 years, there would have been at least 1 10-2 team left out.
 
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