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Message: [QUOTE="tep624, post: 1082565, member: 430"] This whole A list, B list thing is pretty cloudy right now. 4 years ago, what's happening in July-September during the recruiting cycle now was happening in November-January. It was pretty clear that when a kid would pop up after November with little or no other interest from other schools, after we whiffed on a well recruited prospect at the same position, that the kid was likely a B list kid. Matt Hale in the 2003 class was the perfect example of this, Joe Dailey reneged on his verbal and he was the A #1 guy recruited for QB, Matt Hale is plucked out of the blue shortly before signing day with little or not interest from other schools. He was not a late riser (Bromley is a great example of a late riser, definitely not a B list recruit). Chris Clark was our A #1 target at TE and was offered last in June of 2013, almost a full year before Parkinson and Lindor. He went elsewhere. Parkinson and Lindor weren't offered until after everyone knew he was going elsewhere. Now, does that make kids offered from the summer of last year to March/April of this year A listers and everyone after B listers or late risers? I don't know. Should it be based on the first group of players that have committable offers from the staff? Probably, but that's really tough to know. I am pretty confident that Chris Clark was the A list guy for that position based on the timeline and the others were the B list - doesn't mean they aren't good prospects, but the staff definitely has a pecking order. Problem is that no one here truly knows the staff pecking order, who has or doesn't have committable offers and no one here truly knows the gap between a kid offered in June 2013 for a position vs a kid offered in May 2014, maybe it's wide, maybe it's narrow, maybe there's no gap. Just a lot of speculation right now. There are definitely guys out there that are supposed to be visiting this summer that have heavy offer sheets and higher rankings, so it still looks like the staff is pursuing some guys that fit the description of what you're looking for. [/QUOTE]

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