(01-06-2017 06:27 PM)JBeagle Wrote:  

(01-01-2017 06:34 PM)correcamino Wrote:  

(01-01-2017 06:04 PM)HogDawg Wrote:  

(01-01-2017 04:24 PM)Eagle in the gym Wrote:  

(01-01-2017 03:08 PM)correcamino Wrote:  Will update as NSD gets closer.

1/1/17

247
1. UTSA- 23 commits (79.59)
2. MT- 21 commits (79.48)
3. WKU- 18 commits (79.39)
4. USM- 18 commits (79.44)
5. La Tech- 15 commits (79.85)
6. FIU- 21 commits (77.69)
7. Charlotte- 19 commits (77.09)
8. FAU- 10 commits (81.33)
9. UNT- 14 commits (78.17)
10. Rice- 13 commits (78.64)
11. ODU-18 commits (75.59)
12. UAB- 21 commits (74.31)
13. Marshall- 7 commits (79.24)
14. UTEP- 6 commits (77.16)

Rivals
1. UTSA- 23 commits (2.35)
2. MT- 21 commits (2.24)
3. USM- 19 commits (2.11)
4. Charlotte- 21 commits (1.86)
5. WKU- 17 commits (2.00)
6. FAU- 14 commits (2.21)
7. FIU- 11 commits (2.27)
8. UNT- 14 commits (1.79)
9. La Tech- 14 commits (1.71)
10. Marshall- 9 commits (2.56)
11. Rice- 12 commits (2.17)
12. ODU- 13 commits(1.69)
13. UTEP- 6 comits (2.00)

*The number in parenthesis is the average rating of each school's recruits. 247 rates on a 100 point scale and Rivals on a 5-star scale.

*I was going to include Scout too but a lot of the schools aren't updated. For example, 247 shows La Tech with 15 commits but Scout only has them with 4 commits.

Shouldn't a higher rating per player be more important than signing a large class?

Yes. A large signing class typically means a school is running low on scholarship athletes vs the NCAA's mandated 85 total scholarship limit. This can be due to a large number of athletes graduating at once, or scholarship athletes failing academically, or athletes just leaving the program for various other reasons. Regardless, it's typically not a good sign because it means the school is likely still at least a couple of years away from having enough mature scholarship athletes to compete well.

Conversely, a smaller signing class typically means a school has managed their scholarship athletes a little better long term. It usually means they have more "4-year" guys in the program who are succeeding academically, have relied less on Juco's (so they have fewer people exiting each year), and have a good inventory of stocked players via a strong red shirt program, gray shirts, etc...

No, not really. Due to attrition, graduation, transfers, declaring for the nfl, etc the average program probably loses 20-25 guys on any given year. Replacing them with another 20-25 guys is normal and not necessarily a sign of troubles. It also doesn't mean a team has an imbalanced roster as far as underclassmen/upperclassmen ratio goes. If anything it means you're more balanced. OTOH, if you have a smaller class this year that just means you have considerably more upperclassmen than underclassmen. Eventually you'll be on the other end of the spectrum where your team is too young. That was basically the case for UTSA in 2014 when we had a tiny signing class.

It's simple math really. There's 85 scholarships. You want 20-25 exiting and 20-25 new arrivals every year to keep a healthy balance of experience and youth.

Man I hate to use the SEC as an example but look at those teams. They routinely sign 25 or so players every year. Now it is probably because many are run off or realize they can't play at the schools. I'll also add that the SEC leads the nation is arrests each year so that many of these players are most likely in jail and not able to get on the field,

They certainly do, and by a long shot (six of the top ten...lol). Although, Washington State's football program easily leads the nation in most arrests over the last 5 years with a whopping 31. Florida comes in a distant 2nd at 24 arrests. There are 3 C-USA schools among the top 33 schools in arrests though.

I think the thing about the SEC is that they can afford to gamble on headcases. If you can turn a kid around, that's great. If you can't, it's not that big a deal when you have so many other top recruits practically banging on your doors. Those sorts of football programs recruit themselves, and arrest records are rarely (if ever) brought up on national broadcasts because heaven forbid the announcers speak negatively of the teams their networks have entered into long-term contracts with and possibly risk losing even a fraction of the viewers those programs pull in every week. So everything gets pushed under the rug in the name of $$$ and ratings, as SEC schools are quite happy to swim in waters that only Al Davis could part.

http://www.outkickthecoverage.com/the-mo...ica-081815

Marshall, muts, wky...if yall dont want to read the article

I believe we are the only G5 that is in the top 25 for arrests. Must mean we are doing something right.