Our fatties are bigger than your fatties

The rankings don't mean much to me. There are too many variables to consider this early on and a lot of schools go after the "hidden gems" that others overlook.

I never put much creedence in star stuff. We will not know how well this class is until the fall of 2016 when they are RS Sophmores or true Juniors and the JCs have either finished or have one year left if redshirted. You can get better odds shooting craps than on judging how much a 17 or 18 year old kid is going to develop by the time he is 21 or 22.

(02-05-2014 05:58 PM)Alumniner2012 Wrote:  

(02-05-2014 05:26 PM)RonBurgundy Wrote:  I think the best measure of your class is how much beef you recruited on both sides of the ball. Athletic linemen each year usually add up to good teams every year.

Charlotte signed a 6'8'' 280lb offensive lineman. The guy is huge.

http://247sports.com/Player/Jean-Luc-Cerza-Lanaux-32805

http://rivals.yahoo.com/charlotte/footba...aux-154194

He's up to 315.

(02-05-2014 02:51 PM)DaSaintFan Wrote:  

(02-05-2014 02:47 PM)shiftyeagle Wrote:  

(02-05-2014 02:45 PM)WKUFan518 Wrote:  I thought Southern Miss fans seemed very concerned with this years recruiting class....Seems to be a good haul for Southern Miss based on these rankings..

We lost several of our best recruits in the last week....a few today alone.

7 total, with 4 flips (although Magee said 5 on one of his twitter feeds, so he must be counting someone I'm not)

No offense to Memphis or middle Tennessee, but watching Avery , white, and herrod sign with those schools instead of us so they can "play closer to home" is a punch in the gut. That really only happens coming off 1-23. We rarely lose more than 1-2 flips total at the end of a recruiting cycle and those almost always go to the sec. Incidentally, MSU deciding they are going to recruit most of their roster from Mississippi along with actually winning half their games is probably hurting us the most. Before Mullen, maybe half our Mississippi recruits were seriously considering MSU...now we have to fight them and their sec resources over every single decent instate recruit.

(02-05-2014 02:42 PM)Niner National Wrote:  The amount of disparity between Scout and 247 for ODU is pretty amazing.

You should look at ECU for Scout v 24/7, it's down right laughable, scout still doesn't have all of our signees listed. But, that's what happens when it's run by a NC State fan and Wolfpack Club member. That's right our scout board is owned and run by a fan of our bitter rival.

(02-05-2014 04:33 PM)MUHERD76 Wrote:  

(02-05-2014 04:24 PM)ODUDrunkard13 Wrote:  

(02-05-2014 04:19 PM)Lee Moses Wrote:  Not a very good way of doing it, IMO, since ESPN does not rate nearly as many players as some other services, and those they do rate they usually give 3 stars.

It's not a good way of ranking the classes but it shows you the difference for ODU between Rivals/Scout and ESPN/247. Rivals only has 18 commits listed for ODU and Scout only has 21, while ESPN and 247 list all 31. The Scout and Rivals rankings are worthless for ODU.

This.

247 Sports seams to be the new "standard" if you ask me. Seems to be the most fair and accurate across the board.

I like 24/7 for their composite rating which average all the recruiting sites ratings for each player to gather, giving a more balance look, vs those that are overrated or underrated on different sites. They do a good job on most for rating every player. Also, they do not just give out ratings ie just giving a 2 star for a G5 commit or 3 star for a P5. Players will have a NR beside their name until film and measurables are reviewed.

Side note, the Guy that started Rivals sold the site and started 24/7.

Nice class Marshall. 247 says we have the 3rd rated class in CUSA - kind of surprised we are that high but we finished really strong in the last couple of weeks.

(02-05-2014 05:50 PM)DxfanMiner Wrote:  Last place.. unacceptable Mr. Kugler.

I hope this is in jest...

Last place again, woooo!

(02-05-2014 09:20 PM)ecumbh1999 Wrote:  

(02-05-2014 04:33 PM)MUHERD76 Wrote:  

(02-05-2014 04:24 PM)ODUDrunkard13 Wrote:  

(02-05-2014 04:19 PM)Lee Moses Wrote:  Not a very good way of doing it, IMO, since ESPN does not rate nearly as many players as some other services, and those they do rate they usually give 3 stars.

It's not a good way of ranking the classes but it shows you the difference for ODU between Rivals/Scout and ESPN/247. Rivals only has 18 commits listed for ODU and Scout only has 21, while ESPN and 247 list all 31. The Scout and Rivals rankings are worthless for ODU.

This.

247 Sports seams to be the new "standard" if you ask me. Seems to be the most fair and accurate across the board.

I like 24/7 for their composite rating which average all the recruiting sites ratings for each player to gather, giving a more balance look, vs those that are overrated or underrated on different sites. They do a good job on most for rating every player. Also, they do not just give out ratings ie just giving a 2 star for a G5 commit or 3 star for a P5. Players will have a NR beside their name until film and measurables are reviewed.

Side note, the Guy that started Rivals sold the site and started 24/7.

Interesting. I did not know that.

(02-05-2014 09:09 PM)ecumbh1999 Wrote:  

(02-05-2014 02:42 PM)Niner National Wrote:  The amount of disparity between Scout and 247 for ODU is pretty amazing.

You should look at ECU for Scout v 24/7, it's down right laughable, scout still doesn't have all of our signees listed. But, that's what happens when it's run by a NC State fan and Wolfpack Club member. That's right our scout board is owned and run by a fan of our bitter rival.

how did that happen?

Charlotte has a Scout URL, but nobody updates it. Any updates for it are just auto-updates when we are mentioned in an article somebody wrote for another school or the AP.

247 wouldn't give us a site unless we gave up ninernation.net and we don't want to do that.

Very pleased with the class Coach Brohm has brought in for the Tops. Looks like he has been able to retain nearly all of the recruits that were verballed under Petrino. Areas of need were addressed, and a pretty talented group of Jucos coming in to help with depth as well. Speed has definitely been upgraded. All in all, a nice way to begin our Conference USA membership. Also, I am very excited about our new schedule. The upgrade in quality teams coming into The Houch will surely put more butts in the seats. Can't wait for August 28![/i]

(02-05-2014 09:20 PM)ecumbh1999 Wrote:  

(02-05-2014 04:33 PM)MUHERD76 Wrote:  

(02-05-2014 04:24 PM)ODUDrunkard13 Wrote:  

(02-05-2014 04:19 PM)Lee Moses Wrote:  Not a very good way of doing it, IMO, since ESPN does not rate nearly as many players as some other services, and those they do rate they usually give 3 stars.

It's not a good way of ranking the classes but it shows you the difference for ODU between Rivals/Scout and ESPN/247. Rivals only has 18 commits listed for ODU and Scout only has 21, while ESPN and 247 list all 31. The Scout and Rivals rankings are worthless for ODU.

This.

247 Sports seams to be the new "standard" if you ask me. Seems to be the most fair and accurate across the board.

I like 24/7 for their composite rating which average all the recruiting sites ratings for each player to gather, giving a more balance look, vs those that are overrated or underrated on different sites. They do a good job on most for rating every player. Also, they do not just give out ratings ie just giving a 2 star for a G5 commit or 3 star for a P5. Players will have a NR beside their name until film and measurables are reviewed.

Side note, the Guy that started Rivals sold the site and started 24/7.

So far about 8 or 9 of UTEP's recruits our listed as NR. I think that's true of UAB recruits too. The reviewers of film have a lot of work to do.