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[QUOTE="tep624, post: 5117969, member: 430"]
Washington is a bit of an outlier too in that the got Penix out of the portal and really only in the last cycle (2024) were the sites comprehensively including transfers in an overall class ranking.

Without Penix, Washington isn't a top 10 team.

And also, I get the argument of chicken or egg here, and I believe that most heavily influences recruits outside the top 250/300 where analysts have a lot more ability to be subjective where they rank players.  So using Rivals as an example, you could easily see an under the radar kid only offered by G5's that Alabama falls in love with and offers and lands, who was a 5.4 2 star prior to Alabama offering who is now a 5.7 3 star after - player isn't any different.  That absolutely happens.

What I like about Fran and his staff is that they don't necessarily chase after plateaued recruits that have fallen off with the power programs.  They'd rather pursue kids who are risers with strong measurables in the NE region that may have been overlooked than tack on a kid from FL who was a 4 star as a Soph whose offers have all dried up with heavier P4 schools because he didn't physically develop as expected or whatever.  We saw that with Dino's staff at times where they ignored the tea leaves and tacked on kids that looked good on paper but eventually would never develop into anything.  I don't get that feeling at all with Fran.

2 recruits from the '24 class who really intrigue me are Xavier Miles and Fatim Diggs - 2 kids that had some good offers early and basically just vanished on the recruiting scene.  It will be really interesting to see what becomes of them.
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