Roger N
Beer: Ask your Doctor If It's Right For you
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At the current recruit rankings trajectory if we doubled the size of the class to 28 kids like Shafer, this class would be ranked #17 ahead of Ohio State.
Adding 6 more kids at the lowest rvls three star tier (5.5) - a 20 kid class - the ranking would bump to #38. That doesn't account for anyone else moving up or down, but rvls is heavily weighted towards numbers because they have a point system. The more kids, the more points, the higher the ranking.
It comes down to a few things for me (from the outside looking in).
1) Who offered,
2) how were they evaluated - in person, what camps, what combines, games, did offers come from those performances,
3) level of competition - what class size school, traditional football hotbed,
4) measurable's
5) awards/recognition - Team Captain, All State, ALL Star Games, State Playoff teams etc...
...what we don't see and can't rate is a kid's character. That would rank very high on my list. How does he face adversity, how is he viewed by his teachers and is he coachable?
Regarding class rankings, I always judge rankings by the average rating of each recruit. Last years class ranking was hurt by the loss of Samson and and Jordon not qualifying. Currently we have a few undervalued recruits. I love the recent defensive recruits.