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Message: [QUOTE="tep624, post: 1223036, member: 430"] Davante Davis and Daiquan Kelly are shining examples of why it is hard to gauge our recruiting based on stars and rankings. Both were 3 stars when they were committed to us at Rivals. Now they are both 4 stars. Some of this stuff is chicken or egg. In general, when we land early recruits, we aren't landing kids that are heavily recruited with 5+ P5 offer sheets in the Feb-May/June period, and to be honest, I don't expect that. The kids that have that pedigree are the ones that the factories hammer during that period, so if they're going to commit, it's likely they aren't committing here. We go after the kids that have a lot of upside but are in the next tier that the factories would likely go after in the Nov-Feb period if they still have holes in their class. This helps us from a perspective of landing quality kids, but hurts us from a recruiting rankings perspective because more often than not, the only way these kids are getting more pub is by camping, which they tend to not do once they commit, or getting more offers, which they tend to only do if they are looking around. And if they even do get more offers, it rarely helps their ranking if they stick with us, it only tends to show some improvement if they decide to visit elsewhere and/or decommit. Davis and Kelly are the examples of that. For those that really value rankings, explain to me, all things equal, why Daiquan Kelly is now a 4 star at Rivals but Dontae Strickland is still a 3 star. Strickland was a top 15 Jersey recruit preseason, just like Kelly, and had a fantastic senior year. The only difference between the two is that one stayed committed to Syracuse and the other flipped to PSU. For me, it's pretty simple. If you have faith in the staff's ability to recruit, then look at the guys that committed June or earlier, and if that's half your class or more, you have to be pretty confident. Then you look at the guys committing June or later, and you want those guys to be ranked 3 stars or better and have good offer sheets. If you look at this class, that's basically what we're doing - the early kids have the weaker rankings and offers sheets, the later kids the better rankings and offer sheets. And of our decommits, 2 look to have been dropped for either other positional needs or better prospects, 2 are now top 250 Rivals recruits, and 1 who was an early commit looks to be coming back in the fold (Grimes). I have faith in this staff's ability to recruit, and I know what our current profile is as a program, so I'm pretty content with this class. I like the kids we have, we've addressed a lot of needs, landed a pretty promising QB recruit in Dungey who may be able to enroll early, and we're still heavily involved with 5-6 higher profile guys, Fox, Sheppard, Crawford, Stocker, Ealey, Tears, Hale and my personal film favorite Steven Clark. And who knows, maybe a few surprises as well, new names keep popping. Now if we can get can close strong and somehow get Alin Edouard back on campus, I'll be really happy. [/QUOTE]

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