Found my answer: Indiana HC has ties to Arkansas and Mississippi and one assistant corch is Kane Wommack, son of ex USM and OP defensive Coordinator Dave Wommack.

The "internets" are a wonderful thing..

(12-10-2018 09:09 AM)The Knight Time Wrote:  Some day you guys will stop worrying about stars or rankings from places like Rivals. They are utterly worthless when it comes to any school outside the Top 15 blue chips that they actually evaluate for recruits.

Not to mention they basically don't even attempt to evaluate linemen outside the Top 20 in the country. They'll just blindly slap a 3 or 2 star rating on them and call it a day. That impacts classes that are heavy on D and O linemen such as UCF's class this year.

Also, JUCO guys (IMO) rarely live up to ANY rating they're given. I much prefer HS kids.

^THIS! So much this!

The best past recruiting classes this year were UAB’s, because they did the only thing that matters.
The best past recruiting classes last year were FAU’s, because they did the only thing that matters.
The best past recruiting classes two years ago were WKU’s, because they did the only thing that matters...

Rivals rankings matters for conferences like sun belt mac cusa. If a school gets a 4 star QB & it translates on the field that's a game changer or all your recruits are 3 stars and they translate on field that makes a major difference. You can even ask P5 coaches and they talk about where they stand in recruiting. If they have 4 stars or 5 stars just like if a team in G5 has they best recruiting class , that's huge.

Here's how the sites all work. The creators of Rivals who sold it to yahoo, created 247.



https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cougcen...igning-day

COACHING MATTERS a lot more than what star ranking Rivals gives a kid unless you are talking about the top 5 stars kids. Especially in the G5


S. MISS National rank 48 CUSA 1
2011 S. MISS National rank 86 CUSA 3
2012 S.Miss nation rank 68 CUSA rank 1
2013 Nation rank 82 CUSA 2
2014 National rank 82 CUSA 3
2015 Nation rank 87 CUSA 5
2016 national rank 100 cusa 6

2010 wins 8 (cusa 2 east & 4th overall)
2011.... 12 ( CUSA 1st east & 3rd overall won conf championship)
2012.... 0 (cusa last & last)
2013.... 1 ( CUSA last & last
2014.... 3 ( cusa last & last)
2015.... 9 (cusa 1st west 2nd overall)
2016... 7 ( CUSA 3RD west 6th overall)
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2010 Marshall national rank 78 cusa 2
2011 nation rank 60 cusa 1
2012 national rank 78 cusa 2
2013 national rank 58 cusa 1
2014 national rank 62 CUSA 1
2015 national rank 75 cusa 1
2016 national rank 51 cusa 1

2010 wins 5
2011...7
2012...5
2013...10
2014...13 (conference champs)
2015...10
2016...3
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Western recruit ranking

2010 cusa 8
2011 cusa 2
2012 cusa 6
2013 cusa 6
2014 cusa 5
2015 cusa 11
2016 cusa 7

2010 wins 2
2011...7
2012..7
2013...8
2014....8
2015...12 (CUSA champs avg winning margin over 21
2016...11 (CUSA Champs avg winning margin over 21

Doesn’t mean squat unless you put trophies on the shelf and rings on fingers. We should know. Ugh!

(12-11-2018 12:46 AM)DustMyBroom Wrote:  The best past recruiting classes this year were UAB’s, because they did the only thing that matters.
The best past recruiting classes last year were FAU’s, because they did the only thing that matters.
The best past recruiting classes two years ago were WKU’s, because they did the only thing that matters...

What he said!