SI re-ranks the 2012 recruiting classes...

Saw that.

Has nothing to do with the recruit and everything to do with the size and fanaticism of the fanbase. Giving the Bama bump results in tons more clicks and traffic. Giving a Pinkel bump will get a slight increase but not nearly as much as Bama or whoever.

No! Your wrong! Scout's and Rivals' rankings are the only thing that matters. And their predictions may as well be written in stone. They never make a mistake and never miss a kid. Any recruiting class not made entirely of 4 and 5 star recruits has no chance of winning anything worthwhile. We are doomed because we accept 2 and 3 stars. We will never improve because we don't get 15 5-star recruits every year. Haven't you listened to the recruiting experts on this forum and every other MU forum. We are doomed with no hope to ever win again!!!!

You're confusing football with basketball.

Ths is how every recruiting class should be ranked. After the fact !!!

I'm going to steal a post from the fellas at RockMNation about recruiting and GP.

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? I think Pinkel consistently outperforms his recruiting rankings by recruiting in their blind spots At the risk of oversimplifying, I think the services have two major blind spots. A strong prototypicality bias. That blind spot really riles the fan base. (What do you mean Chase Daniel is too small to play QB!?!) Players without a clear position. Services don’t like it when they don’t know what you are. There’s not really a category for that. And to be fair, it’s harder to evaluate what you can’t categorize. Even the Rivals/247/ESPN "athlete" category is overwhelmingly "slash" type dual threat QBs/WRs/DBs, where the skill set is fundamentally similar across the positions. They are rarely linemen or even linebackers. Pinkel has made a living exploiting that second blind spot. A bunch of guys who have been all-conference for Pinkel either didn’t have a set position at signing, changed positions on campus, and/or played multiple positions. Without thinking hard, I can name Weatherspoon, Ealy, Golden, Hoch, Marcus Murphy, Levi Coppelin, and recently Charles Harris as guys who have at least been contributing role players. All 3-stars or less (iirc). That’s not even counting the offensive linemen who all cross train. The recruiting services, by definition, cannot have that kind of foresight. I recall the question on Brantley was, well what is he? Services must rate based on what a guy is right now, and if they don’t know they knock a guy down. Pinkel’s staff, by contrast, excels at development. So he can recruit for a broad athletic profile, almost irrespective of position constraints, with the knowledge that he can grow and develop guys. I don’t know if Pinkel is a Nike SPARQ guy, but he undoubtedly uses something like that. He’s not just getting lucky. His development strategy is REALLY difficult to implement. You need an uncommon degree of stability in staff. "Those who fear disorder more than injustice inevitably produce more of both." -- Rev. William Coffin by dcrockett17 on 09.17.14 12:16pm

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