That's incorrect and there's even a post about it on your board posted by FIU Fanatic. Maybe you didn't see it.
Well, since FIU...and our recruiting... is one of the favorite topics in this board, I will chime in, as usual respectfully.
First off, as I've always mantained, judging recruiting just by the "stars" assigned by these analysts is a flawed proposition, particularly if you take that element by itself. Also, many or some of these players will not even set foot on campus, or fizzle within a year or two and drop out. Who the player is recruited against, again by itself, might be a better element, but flawed as well. Looking at both together is better indicator, I think, but, again, not a perfect indicator. It's not a science, however, many of these people indeed do their job and evaluate players to reach their "star" rankings, but it is way too subjective matter to absolutely assign total resolution as to who recruited better. However, there's no doubt, all other things being equal, that you would get more excited if you get a "5-star" player than a "4-star" player...and a 4-star over a 3-star...and a 3-star over a 2-star....however flawed this ranking is.
I don't know where the notion that FIU has always outrecruited FAU with better and more players with higher stars started, and has popularized here on several threads, but it is simply a fallacy, if you look closely. Under Strock we had good recruits, just as FAU had good recruits as well, but if you look at it closely and objectively, you will find out that before Mario Cristobal arrived FIU and FAU recruits on rivals based on stars were on the same basis. Actually, looking at what rivals.com has in their database, any objective observer would say otherwise....that FAU had more and better ranked players, based on stars ranking, than FIU.
Hardly facts support that FIU "out-recruited" FAU since the advent of our programs. Let's look at rivals and recruits and stars: Under each school the numbers of players signed listed and in parenthesis the number of 3 or 4 star recruits listed as signed.
Code:
Year FIU FAU
2002 1(0) 1(one 4-star player) Advantage FAU
2003 0 0 No Advantage
2004 2 (0) 2 (1 3-star player) Advantage FAU
2005* 8(0) 6 (1 3-star player) Advantage FAU *started IA,thus more recruits listed
2006 24 (0) 20 (0) Tie Last year Strock recruits
2007 18( 1 3-star) 17 (1 3-star players) Tie 1 and half month with Cristobal coach
2008 24(4 3-stars) 21 (2 3-star players) Advantage FIU 1st full recruiting year of Cristobal
2009 (partial) 23(1 4-star, 5 3-stars) 25 (2 3-star players) Advantage FIU
(02-20-2009 11:03 AM)TroyFootball05 Wrote: (02-20-2009 07:50 AM)NCowl Wrote: EVERY YEAR FIU out recruits us according to rivals and there stupid system, EVERY YEAR!
True, but only by one or two guys at most. In the past, the difference was only marginal. The last two years, they have recruited significantly better than you guys, and I think that will show up on the field over the next couple of years.