Josh Pate dispels the myth of the "Bama Bump"

So the Bama Bump is fact. That's is what he is saying? He is just justifying it because Bama is successful?

He's missed the mark entirely, based on the headline of the tweet. I didn't watch the video.

Not a soul is calling them overrated. What people are saying is that when a player commits to alabama they will often shoot up the rankings, thereby improving alabama's class ranking.

Now..there is obviously some logical thinking behind this. If a guy is good enough for a scholarhip at bama, it's enirely possible that he may have been very undervalued in the 200s or wherever, and may warrant being higher. BUT, even if that was 10000% true, rivals needs to stop pretending it isn't true. They should just own it and say it. "yeah, bama offered this guy so we raised his ranking. If he's good enough for saban he's good enough to be int eh top 100". Instead of hemming and hawing about how they now have "more film" or he did good at camp or something.

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He's missed the mark entirely

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I didn't watch the video.

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Lazy frick.

Players gain recruiting ranks after the most meaningful 2-3 month period of their football careers to this point (playoffs as seniors and AA games/practices) and people think its some conspiracy.

I do think there is some confirmation bias because Bama has been so good at player evaluations where Bama recruits move up a bit more than they probably should relative to recruits of other teams, specifically around the All-American events. But I also don't think they are bumping Bama recruits without any reason other than the fact they are Bama recruits.

Man who works for 247 sports says 247 sports isn't biased. More at 10.

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Not a soul is calling them overrated. What people are saying is that when a player commits to alabama they will often shoot up the rankings, thereby improving alabama's class ranking.

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But that would make them overrated

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Now..there is obviously some logical thinking behind this. If a guy is good enough for a scholarhip at bama, it's enirely possible that he may have been very undervalued in the 200s or wherever, and may warrant being higher. BUT, even if that was 10000% true, rivals needs to stop pretending it isn't true. They should just own it and say it. "yeah, bama offered this guy so we raised his ranking. If he's good enough for saban he's good enough to be int eh top 100". Instead of hemming and hawing about how they now have "more film" or he did good at camp or something.

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Yes this is spot on. Javon Brooks for example, A so called 4 star receiver out of Georgia in which I don't think Georgia offered. He runs a 4.8 40. He's billed as being a "tough" receiver. He goes to Bama and does nothing. He enters the transfer portal and ends up at Kentucky. Just one example.

It's not just that they raise the rating of players that commit to Bama. It's that they lower the ratings of players that don't commit to Bama.

Walker Howard was a 5 star QB and ranked the #1 QB in the 2022 class.

After signing with LSU he was dropped to a 4 star. What changed?

Ask your boy Barrett Jones if the Bama bump is real.

Kid had never played center at all in high school but that didn't stop Rivals from listing him as the #1 center in the country, which is what it took to give Bama the #1 class that year.