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(07-22-2018 11:05 PM)CalODUFan Wrote:  

(07-22-2018 08:27 PM)Old Blue Wrote:  

(07-22-2018 11:27 AM)Mr.BigBlue Wrote:  

(07-22-2018 06:44 AM)ODU AGGIE Wrote:  247Sports has now rated all the current football commits of 2019. Two of the nine newly rated players are three-stars, WR Baxton Collins and DE Kevin Dameron, giving us a total of three along with QB Hayden Wolff. The good news is this places the Monarchs as the number two class in the conference. The bad news is -- this is solely because we have 15 commits. Our average rating is the next-to-worst in the conference at 0.7902 and ahead of only UTEP. Personally, I like just about all of our commits based on their videos, but we are not getting much love from 247Sports on this recruiting class to date.

https://247sports.com/college/old-domini...ll/Commits

Whats new...been going on for the last 5 years. headed in the wrong direction recruiting. The new stadium if done correctly should help but even that s looking marginal at best.

I don't know, give me a kid who has some athletic ability is coachable and has a strong work ethic. And I'll take that kid all day. I'm not a huge believer in the star system.

Many people on this board obsess over 247 and the ratings. Our two highest rated recruits on 247 were Bentley and Appouh, both were very high 3 stars, on the edge of 4 stars. Bentley was a massive bust and Appouh is our 3rd best DE. The two best DEs, Ximines and Ward (low two star), were 2 stars when committed. Most of our best players were unrated or low two stars: Heinicke, Pascal, Pinkard, Duhart, Ricks, Wilkins, Clarke, etc.

And, I just saw that 3 out of our 4 three star recruits from the 2017 class are gone and never saw the field: Perkins, Colbert and Keisean Wilson