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(08-03-2020 09:49 AM)Gilesfan Wrote:  I cannot believe people still pay attention to those 247 rankings. They don't care about ODU in the very least and have never even scouted the majority of players that ODU will sign. Some of the kids that have ranked 3 stars in the past for us were walk ons.

I don't care about what 247 says a player should be ranked, or their number of stars, but I do care about who else has offered. Getting guys with offers from AAC, MAC and CUSA schools is great, getting guys with offers from the ACC is even better. It shows their coaches think highly of these guys too, so we're not just taking a chance on a guy with hopes we see something nobody else does. That works occasionally, but you cant build an entire team that way (unless the guy is Taylor Heinike). We were getting guys with offers from Morgan State, Howard, Charlotte and Towson before. Now we're competing for recruits at our weight class and aiming for even higher. I like it.