I never know which service to place more faith in. Honestly I'm skeptical of all of them. Scout has us as the best class in the league, Rivals has us as one of the worst, and 24/7 has us kinda in the middle. Hard for me to know which to actually believe. I'm a subscriber to 24/7 so I'd be inclined to lean towards them, but I'm biased.

(02-07-2013 08:57 AM)ECUGrad07 Wrote:  Marshall has the lowest standards for taking student-athletes quite possibly in all of college football. Most of these guys won't qualify, otherwise they would have gone somewhere else. Hmmm...the allure of Huntington, West Virginia must have been too strong. I guess they want to build something special with a coach that might not be there another year...

As Marshall fans like to say to ECU fans... those kids are "props."

See you in Huntington.

(02-07-2013 01:02 AM)Godzilla Wrote:  maybe nUTSAck was a bad choice? lol idk why cusa chooses to be UT-Austin's reject pile...

UTSA 38
TXST 31

(02-07-2013 09:19 AM)lebomb Wrote:  

(02-07-2013 01:02 AM)Godzilla Wrote:  maybe nUTSAck was a bad choice? lol idk why cusa chooses to be UT-Austin's reject pile...

UTSA 38
TXST 31

Texas State? You mean UTM on Friday Night Lights?

(02-07-2013 12:06 AM)ecumbh1999 Wrote:  

(02-06-2013 11:41 PM)mufanatehc Wrote:  

(02-06-2013 06:14 PM)blunderbuss Wrote:  LOL. Which recruiting service is that?

Anyway...... a blind man can see something isn't quite right up there in Huntington.

what's not quite right?

ESPN, Scout, 247sports are all about in the same area with their team ranking and Rivals is kinda the odd ball with some teams all over the board up and down. Yet the OP just uses the Rivals rankings to try and talk smack, for a class of players the most won't play or start for two years.

And to prove how little these rankings mean:

ECU's 2005 signing class Sr.'s in 2009 were ranked 12th, dead last, yet that class ranked dead last won C-USA.

C-USA team rankings 2005 - 2011

http://rivals.yahoo.com/eastcarolina/foo...5/CUSA/all

http://rivals.yahoo.com/eastcarolina/foo...6/CUSA/all

http://rivals.yahoo.com/eastcarolina/foo...7/CUSA/all

http://rivals.yahoo.com/eastcarolina/foo...8/CUSA/all

http://rivals.yahoo.com/eastcarolina/foo...9/CUSA/all

http://rivals.yahoo.com/eastcarolina/foo...0/CUSA/all

http://rivals.yahoo.com/eastcarolina/foo...1/CUSA/all

Marshall according to Rivals has had top 5 C-USA classes every year outside of 2009, and as of yet has failed to win the East once and finished top 5 in C-USA only once. ECU on the other hand has had 3 classes rank (by Rivals) outside the top 5, but has only finished outside the top 5 once since 2005, won the east and C-USA twice with classes the average 2 to 3 spots lower than Marshall. Hmmmm, wonder why ECU does better on average with classes that rank lower than Marshall.

Here a thought, one, our classes are under rated. Two, we're developing our players better. These ranking are garbage and decide nothing, none of these recruits have played yet or proved nothing.

Just a thought. Have a nice day.

He wasn't referring to performance, he was referring to recruiting improprieties, of which there are none.

I think he was attempting to attack the help program in a round about way...

(02-06-2013 05:31 PM)T_Won1 Wrote:  Get out of Louisiana! Texas isn't big enough for ya?

Skinner is a huge get for us. Trevon had a hand in recruiting him from Patterson (where Trevon went too).

Donald Gage and Josh Thomas were mega landings.

Sumlin tried to dupe Josh and Kliff went after Gage hard. Both stuck with us.