Recruiting Forum Football Talk [RIP 9.3.2019]

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HoleInTheRoof said:
Whatever gave you the impression:
1. i wasn’t aware of that
or
B. I sought a “shield” for what I said

Also this convo was yesterday. Any other old news you wanna discuss like the Challenger explosion or the Black Dhalia murder?
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I don't like your JFC bombs, either. I know ydgaf but I'm expressing my opinion. I was traveling yesterday, but that should not matter as I am unaware of any current statute of limitations in responding to 'poseds.
 
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drvenner said:
Who are you pulling for in the ECL. I'm all in for Liverpool.
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Liverpool’s point total would have been enough to win every Premier League title going back till at least 1992, with the exception of this and last season.

Tough, being the third best team in 27 years and to not win the title
 
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Reading a thread on UF247 after Black announced he's going to JUCO, thought I'd share some posts...

Jesus we’re a ****ing mess rn

Mullen is kinda lookin like all smoke and mirrors right now. If we have the season I think we're gonna have the fanbase is gonna riot.

‘19 class looking like it’s held together with lube.

We can’t really lose Steele and Black, right? That’s both players in 2019 that people say are 5-star talents without being 5-stars.

Lmao this 2019 class is really going to be without three 4-star kids and 2 top 150 kids before our first game is played.

Jesus. That's 3 of our most important recruits out of the class by May. This "9th" ranked class was a bunch of smoke and mirrors built on taking guys with character, injury, and grade concerns that put off other schools. Whatever happened to all that stuff I heard that Mullen would vet the kids and they wouldn't be able to sign if they weren't gonna be able to get in? Could it be that he was desperate on the recruiting trail and reached for kids with red flags? Surely not, its UGA who is the house of cards.

Have we heard any kind of update on Arjei? Is he good to go?

The volcanic meltdown the boards would be if he couldn’t go

If Areji doesn’t make it, someone on the staff has gotta go

it's clear that this administration is not committed to football. We can have the moral victory by saying we don't take kids unless they live up to our prestigious academic standards but the truth is any real football school would have found a way. Dan will not have success unless certain people get the hell out of his way.

whatever, we deserve it. We're a laughing stock

Steele was running with the 1’s for a lot of this Spring. He wasn’t starting over Marco, but he was going to be the first guy off the bench at CB. People want to act like that wasn’t a significant loss, and while it’s not earth shattering, we still lost a guy who was going to be a major contributor this season.

The dumpster fire has gasoline constantly being poured onto it.

Mullen is who we thought he was. A boring hire who’s never going to win big, but will steady the ship. He won a game or two more than he was supposed to last year, then scooped up enough desperation takes that it looked like he exceeded expectations in recruiting.

That bill is coming due now, and so it feels like the sky is falling. But ultimately he’ll keep recruiting at a Top 15 level and winning 9-10 games a year until/unless the admin decides that isn’t good enough.

Great another lost decade of mediocrity

looks that way. I feel like it's not all on Mullen, obviously some staff changes need to happen and that's 100% on him but at the same time I don't think this happens at MSST or any high level football program. I guess the positive spin is he now knows he can't curtail the university standards the way he could at MSST. Maybe he should only target BC kids who are on the honor roll?
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nicksjuzunk said:
Liverpool’s point total would have been enough to win every Premier League title going back till at least 1992, with the exception of this and last season.

Tough, being the third best team in 27 years and to not win the title
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Pep Guardiola is perhaps the most innovative tactician since Johan Cruyff, who Pep of course played for on those Barcelona Dream Teams of the early 1990s. Pep is simply the best manager on Earth. He proved it in Spain, consistently beating the Mourinho-led Madrid squads (with one notable exception). He proved it in Germany with Bayern, and while they didn't win the Champions League, it was complete domination of the domestic competitions.

With Manchester City, It's not even fair with the unlimited financial backing from Abu Dhabi and the Mansours. You already have the best manager on Earth, Manchester City is literally paying for kids from the ages of 6-10 to travel from all over the UK to get the best talents in their academy (Phil Foden is going to be a legit star for club and country), and they can literally tap-up and buy almost any player on Earth. The UEFA Financial Fair Play laws are a joke, since the Arab sheiks at Manchester City and PSG are using creative accounting that uses marketing rights and sponsorships as a way to offset their expenditures on transfers and wages. FFP was specifically put into place to avoid these kinds of scenarios, yet the criminal Russian mafia gangster Roman Abramovich uses Chelsea as a money laundering operations, and Chelsea still has 100 players on loan at random clubs all over Europe.

If there's anyone who can knock off Manchester City, it's Liverpool. Jurgen Klopp is the Dabo Swinney of soccer. The comeback against Barcelona was just a masterclass of performance, beating Barcelona at their own attacking game. The Geggenpresse uses many of the tactics of the 2019 tiki-taka Pep employs at City, and I actually think that Liverpool are more fluid in the counterattack than City are. It's just that City has world class players at every position, which is something that not even clubs like Barcelona, Madrid, or Munich can boast.

That being said, this disappointment of losing out on the title yet again, Liverpool is going to be so hungry in the Champions League final. I really like this Tottenham squad, but their lack of transfers last offseason really hurt their depth, and that's going to be on display in a couple of weeks.
 
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Looking at availability on relocation and it appears a lot did not renew. Tax law change has to have a lot to do with it. Will be interested to see if donation levels get reduced in the future. I know not winning is coming into play but it is shocking to me.
 
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Is it just me or do other people think JUCO CB’s don’t make much sense? Taylor and Thompson are here at least 2 more years, and Fields and Burrel FR backing them up next year. Wish it was some OL or DL instead.
 
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tomq_123 said:
Is it just me or do other people think JUCO CB’s don’t make much sense? Taylor and Thompson are here at least 2 more years, and Fields and Burrel FR backing them up next year. Wish it was some OL or DL instead.
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always need big physical corners especially in 3 and 4 wide sets.
 
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Devo182 said:
I know many are still a bit down on recruiting so far - but look at it as far as quality. Not counting our Long Snapper (a position that will NEVER be rated a 4 star, just like punters, kickers, etc), we now have an average recruit ranking of 90.25 and 4 4-stars out of 6 recruits. That is a 66% blue chip ratio. It's been said the magic percentage for blue chippers (4*/5*) is 50% of your recruits over the previous 4 years to be a serious national contender.

Last year's class had 14 out of 25 players (including Harris and using transfer ratings). That is 56% blue chippers.

This gives us a 2 year average so far of 58%. We may not be getting everyone we want so far, but we are getting the right quality of players and until we actually finish a class with a poor average recruit, I'll keep on the Pruitt crootin' train.

As a follow-up on this -
Pruitt's current running BCR (blue chip ratio) is precisely 50%, including his 2018 class that had to be quickly thrown together. I excluded all P/K/LS recruits for all classes.

Butch's tenure average was 39%.

Dooley's was 42%.

Not including 1st year classes (since it can be sort of hard to blame or reward them for a class that mostly wasn't theirs or had to be thrown together in a matter of weeks):
Pruitt - 58%
Butch - 43%
Dooley - 40%

I'd say, so far, Pruitt is a significant upgrade in the recruiting department.


Lastly, about that 50% golden mark. It is simply based on 4-year recruiting averages, no transfers or walk-ons have been included in the past (maybe this year's version will since 247 started re-rating transfers). It does not reflect any type of attrition either. So it is not the most reflective of a current roster, but it is still a great mark if you want to make the playoffs. All 4 playoff teams were on the BCR list last year. 13 teams made the list in total. Only 10 the year before.

Blue-Chip Ratio 2018: 13 teams have title-worthy recruiting

Our current average looks to be only 39%. We are still a ways away from getting on the list and I'm not sure if we have ever been on the list before, at least since Fulmer. I estimate we won't make the list until at least 2021 (2 more classes), mostly because 2017 was so bad (19%).

Our running average over time:
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And a projection based on repeating exactly what we did this class:
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Patience grasshoppers, good things could be on the horizon as long as we can merely hold steady, at a minimum.
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Devo, you really shouldn't be sharing your password with @ChattaTNVol :p
 
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to me JUCO CBs are solid gets, they can add immediate impact/speed to the team. Even if only as gunners on Special Teams. I personally wish we had enough talent that I didn't see Warrior and Taylor having to avoid peel back blocks on punt/kick coverage.
 
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The guy who tries to convince everyone how much $ he has and challenges everyone to compare bank accounts/houses etc works at an amusement park?

 
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bignewt said:
Hey @WriterVol you know any freelance copy editors who would be interested in proofing a novel?
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My networking is atrocious. It consists of a LinkedIn account I check about twice a year. I work in an IT shop. I don't encounter many other professional writers. I'm not the worst copy editor (far from my primary function), but I'm definitely not the best either.
 
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