re: Alabama retakes the #1 spot from Texas A&M in the 247 Sports 2022 recruiting rankings

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Because Alabama only took in 24 kids from high school vs the A&M 27, while Alabama had a much higher average.

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Let's take away A&M's 3 lowest-rated signees to make it even:

A&M - 323.93
Alabama - 321.80

So what will Fisher do with the recruits?

Here is what Saban is doing with recruits and transfers

Use it to his advantage.

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All it took was Rivals cooking the books deliberately so that Georgia and A&M dropped while Alabama went up.

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"It's a conspiracy, I tell you! It's always something to keep their thumb on the aggies!! If it's not those meanie bully sips, it's always someone else trying to keep the sleeping giant from waking! "

I have never understood how these grown men cry conspiracy and then act like they're not acting like 7-year-olds

Look at all the LSU celebrating. Nope. They don’t give a shite.

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Interesting theory. So Alabama is winning all of these championships with a lot less talent than we were led to believe?

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This star rating system is supposed to be a predictor of future performance and readiness to play CFB. Therefore 5* player is more likely to have more production and success than a 3* player. Let start from that premise.

What I said is these sites are either being paid to change the ratings by boosters to benefit Bama. Create the perception this is where all the great players go. One possibility.

Or, what I think is more likely, it is the site hedging their bets. They think Bama will win because of Saban. Pretty safe bet, so they change the rating based on who goes to Bama right now; Gump bump. The benefit to them is they can say, "come to my website we predicted all these 5 stars at Bama and see they won a championship." Give me clicks and I make money. Bama is not winning championships because they are getting 247 5 stars, they are winning because Saban develops players. This is NOT about rating players, this is about sucking in clicks to websites for advertisements.

For this star system to be truly about talent and potential outcomes, which it is not, teams like LSU 2019 would not happen. How can Bama/UGA full of 5*s get beat by LSU 2019 full 2* and 4* players? Why did LSU not have that many high star players, they were not expected or predicted to win. I have even posted in another thread how these sites change their ratings after a player's career is over to appear more accurate.

Again, this is all about these sites hedging their bets.

A&M has proven they are not going to win, therefore if they get rated #1 and then perform the normal Aggie way, the star rating system is not very accurate. Less clicks. Bama is a safer bet than Aggie when you are worried about the "accuracy" of your star system which drives your clicks.

Cool

print the cups!

i need to see if i can get a refund on mine

Lol that good old signing day bama bump

Screw the Aggies also

I see 8-4 in your future.

Losses to Alabama, Arkansas, Texas A&M, Ole Miss.

You beat
Florida, Tennessee, Auburn Miss State.

Everyone else is a cake walk.