(10-07-2015 08:47 PM)Fort Bend Owl Wrote: Going back a few years too, Morris Almond was a national top 100 recruit. So was Jason McKrieth. And while he was a transfer, Bobby Crawford was a national top-25 recruit (which tells you a little about some recruiting rankings).
Maybe you saw different rankings than I did but IIRC Almond was top 200 and McKrieth was lower than that (but still a good recruit for the WAC). Both turned out to be better players than recruits.
Transfers from big programs tend to be the guys that turned out to be worse players than recruits.
(10-07-2015 09:02 PM)Buho00 Wrote: Braun was a good recruiter. Kazemi, Ennis, Obi, Debose, Reischel?, Oraby, Ibrahim, etc. Most or all had numerous P5 offers. Rice was named the 2nd best recruiting class among all of G5 schools by espn one year under Braun. The problem was keeping the players at Rice.
Those were good recruits but mostly not as good as you described. According to rivals, Ennis and DeBose did have numerous other offers but none from P5 schools. Ibrahim had only one P5 offer. Oraby and Obi aren't listed, but Oraby seemed to be way off the recruiting radar. I don't remember about Obi: I wasn't paying much attention by then.
Braun also brought in a bunch of guys with no other offers at all. Most of them left as quickly as Ennis and Ibrahim, presumably for different reasons.
On paper, the 2015 class seems to be in the same arena as 2011 which was Braun's high-water mark for recruiting. (I'm going by competitive offers, not ESPN ratings.)
Standard disclaimers about recruiting rankings apply.
As for Josh Hall, his list of finalists is, uh, a bit unusual for a national #130 recruit with multiple big-time offers. I suspect there is more to his story.