Recruiting analyst's criticism of rankings raises ire -- and interesting points

I love the Braves!!

That hat had mo swagga.

It is common knowledge that recruit's stars are adjusted, USCe coach stated in an interview that he has called and said he felt a player should be evaluated to a 3 from a 2 or a 4 from a 3 before.

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geaux braves

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'Bama hat YOU ASSHOLESLKFHD! frick WPRU

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YOU ASSHOLESLKFHD! frick WPRU

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someone call 911. i think UASports just had a stroke

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I’m equally sure that gullible fans will continue to put more stock into winning the recruiting ratings war than actual results on the field and then wonder why these “great” recruiting classes just don’t seem to be as great as projected. Nonetheless, these susceptible fans will continue to fill the coffers of recruiting services, like Rivals, and take their superficial evaluations of players as gospel.

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That being said if you look at the guys that make the NFL, then the recruiting services do a pretty good job. They do about as well as NFL GMs in predicting success. Coaches, injuries, depth chart, attitude, etc have a lot to do with their success.

In the top 10 of the NFL draft:

5 Star:

Cam
AJ Green
Patrick Peterson
Julio Jones
Tyron Smith
Blaine Gabbert

Considering there are that many more 3 and 4 stars, getting 60% of the top 10 is pretty accurate.

4 star:

Von Miller
Jake Locker (shouldn't have been a top 10 pick)

3 star:

Dareus (should have been a 2 star but Bama players get extra stars on Rivals)
Aldon Smith

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These great recruiting classes seem to be working out just fine for Alabama with a 36-5 record, SEC title, and national title since our first #1 class stepped foot on campus. How are all of those average classes working out for Arkansas?

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I looked at the numbers several years ago and there is an obvious distortion of player rankings for specific teams. Either that or you have less player development at some schools, I looked at the numbers in the early 2000-2005 and when you look at that several schools outperformed their average 'star" rating and some performed on par or about on par and others performed poorly.

An example of this is Texas and Miami, when you look at the player rating those two schools have they should just about dominate their conference year in and year out and yet Miami sucks and Texas has very good consistent years but they never put it together on a consistent basis and as you could see last year several Texas recruits were just flat overrated.

Hell look at Richt's "Dream Team" from last year, he said his problem is talent and yet UGA consistently is in the top 10 nationally in recruiting.

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These great recruiting classes seem to be working out just fine for Alabama with a 36-5 record, SEC title, and national title since our first #1 class stepped foot on campus. How are all of those average classes working out for Arkansas?

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They are great because of Saban, not because of the ranking someone gives it...

Exactly

It's a combination. You have a few different kind of coaches out there that excel in particular traits, and the best ones combine traits from each one.

Recruiting
X's & O's
Motivation
Player development


Tubbs was phenomenal at player development and motivation.

Richt is good at x's and o's and pretty good at recruiting.

Chiz (with the help of trooper and luper especially) is great at recruiting and motivation.

Saban is possibly the best at both recruiting and player develppment, and is also awesome at x's and o's. He can motivate a team to anything if he has something to build that motivation off of, but he SUCKS at creating motivation out of nothing.