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Message: [QUOTE="CbusCuse, post: 5342890, member: 507"] We all know there is a correlation between recruiting rankings and winning football. How could there not be? We also know SU hasnt recruited at a very high level in general for a long time. But both our HS ranking of 37 and our portal ranking of 24 were excellent for 2024 for SU standards. We had a great portal class as most teams with a new coach should have. There are always a lot of departures with a new coach which means roster holes to fill and system fits to be added. The fact we don’t have a good portal rating for 2025 is in large part because we have lost very little to the portal. That is a great thing. Would love to see a few higher level additions but not getting too many this year for whatever reason is a little disappointing. But our 2025 HS class rating of 41 is pretty good as well although aided a bit by the large quantity. Not quite as good as 2024 but it seemed a large focus was put on getting the local talent. While class ranking has a large correlation to how good it is, it doesn’t tell the entire story. There are certainly situations that can lead to situations where our players could be better than their ranking. I think this 2025 class is a good example of that because Fran took a large volume of local talent that tends to not get ranked as high and the fact that he took a vey large percentage of his class so early. That should tell you they are solid kids. He isn’t just taking flyers that early. We easily lead the nation in the number of early commits. If Penn state or a suposed higher profile program takes early kids, those kids get evaluated higher. A large factor in player rankings is who are the offers from. When SU takes a kid real early and they don’t have many offers yet, in general he isn’t going to be ranked that highly. And they don’t go back and readjust his ranking unless he gets more offers and then also flips too a higher profile program. So while in general class rankings are fairly accurate, there are system flaws as well. [/QUOTE]

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