re: Sad Truth About Recruiting

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The thing that's most amazing about this is how we've averaged a top 10 class over those years. It just shows how far and away Bama's recruiting has been since Saban started winning there.

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On that note, I was looking at 247 today and they have a "class calculator" where you can add and remove players and it re-scores your ranking with their algorithm. I added every single 5 star prospect we are still targetting and even considered Edoga flipping from USCw back to UGA, making sort of a "dream team" saying we would get every one of our current targets that are highly rated, and even added another 5 star receiver from GA that is currently a Tenn commit.... literally I made a dream team.

I pressed "calculate".

It took us to a solid #2.

It still didn't sniff what Bama already has committed on this very day.

That's a different level of recruiting.

It's not like most things where the top 3 or 4 or 5 are all marginally very close to each other. This is one of those things where they are waaaaaay out ahead. And it's not just this cycle as some kind of anomaly. It's every damn year.


It's really discouraging actually.


Hey, love the TT committment, the Stanley commitment, and the Ledbetter flip, it's been in awesome couple of days for us and we are now #5.

All that excitement is what got me looking into the details.

The details are sad. It's ridiculous.