(06-22-2017 10:47 AM)Crump1 Wrote: (06-21-2017 06:00 PM)AtlantaJag Wrote: (06-21-2017 02:43 PM)Crump1 Wrote: https://n.rivals.com/team_rankings/2018/sbelt
Missing about 5 of our commits and we have a transfer from Ball State and one from Boise.
Christian Howard
Howard is coming this year as a late add.
Cameron Myers
Just in case some don't know this, transfers from four-year schools aren't added in recruiting rankings.
We know this but just in case some don't know, those players play football and have the same impact. It is one reason recruiting rankings are more useless than they ever were.
But do we know why recruiting services don't include them? The answer is that they have little to no video they can use to rank those players again since most did not see significant action at their previous school. Using their rankings from high school or JUCO would rarely ever be accurate since they probably weren't ranked correctly to begin with or they would have played more (at least those coming from P5 schools).
Case in point, LB/S Shawn Jennings is transferring to South Alabama from Alabama. He was a pretty high three-star player coming out of high school but redshirted his only year at UA. Thanks to being an early enrollee, he's has two springs and a fall at Alabama, so he's likely a better player now than in high school, but how good is anyone's guess. Maybe he was accurately rated in high school but can't break through Alabama's depth or maybe he was overrated originally but now may have improved enough to be worthy. It's impossible to know.
I know it's frustrating to not have these players included in recruiting classes, but the difficulty in judging them and the wide variations in how much experience they have and eligibility remaining makes leaving them out of class rankings the right move, in my opinion.
Sorry if my initial response seemed like I was talking down to you. That wasn't my intent. There are some folks that request transfers be added to commit lists all the time without realizing that they aren't there for a reason. That's who I was talking to.
I'll see about adding Ark St's commitments to the 247 list, but I'm surprised the Scout lists aren't already being used to update them.