UNC Football Catch-all | Bill Belichick Era underway

[CFordUNC]

I also must confess that I am more than a little concerned by the fact that for almost all of our highest rated recruits for whose services we beat out or outright flipped from traditional recruiting powers like Ohio State, Texas, Florida State, Miami, Penn State, etc., those schools reportedly did not try to match our financial offers.

Take Vodney Cleveland for example. The ninth ranked player in the state of Alabama, a DL which is a position that nobody can ever have enough of, was not coveted by Alabama or Auburn? What’s going on there? And he wasn’t coveted enough by Texas to try to match our offer? These are the things that I truly do not understand about modern recruiting. Maybe it’s nothing. Maybe it’s something.

 

[heel79]

Ok. Check this out. South Carolina has 15 recruits. Ten 4 star. Five 3 star. Class is ranked 15th. We are 18th by rivals. 3 behind. We also have ten 4 stars and 30 3 stars. Clearly those additional 25 3 stars aren't moving needle much.

 

[CFordUNC]

Ok. Check this out. South Carolina has 15 recruits. Ten 4 star. Five 3 star. Class is ranked 15th. We are 18th by rivals. 3 behind. We also have ten 4 stars and 30 3 stars. Clearly those additional 25 3 stars aren't moving needle much.

Good observation. I hadn’t thought of it that way. I reckon the class rating is primarily influenced by your highest rated players. That’s good to know.

Also, that’s wild that both North Carolina and South Carolina were able to each land classes like that off of 4-8 records and with both coaches facing probable “must win” seasons next fall.

 

[mpaer]

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Take Vodney Cleveland for example. The ninth ranked player in the state of Alabama, a DL which is a position that nobody can ever have enough of, was not coveted by Alabama or Auburn? What’s going on there? And he wasn’t coveted enough by Texas to try to match our offer? These are the things that I truly do not understand about modern recruiting. Maybe it’s nothing. Maybe it’s something.

My memory (lollol) from ON3 Alabama and Auburn offered .Texas outbid them
We outbid Texas
He was higher priority for us then them?

 

[1moretimeagain]

Ok. Check this out. South Carolina has 15 recruits. Ten 4 star. Five 3 star. Class is ranked 15th. We are 18th by rivals. 3 behind. We also have ten 4 stars and 30 3 stars. Clearly those additional 25 3 stars aren't moving needle much.

3 star is nearly an all-inclusive designation, it’s a huge group of players. You’d have to look at the more granular ratings. SCAR is #9 in average player rating on the 247 Composite, UNC is #23.

 

[heel79]

3 star is nearly an all-inclusive designation, it’s a huge group of players. You’d have to look at the more granular ratings. SCAR is #9 in average player rating on the 247 Composite, UNC is #23.

Thanks. I kinda knew that. Obviously staff took some lower ranked 3s that hurt average rating and did little to push us up rankings..perhaps these are 3 and 4 year players who will be developed and can help in couple or three years.

 

[akillesheel]

Good observation. I hadn’t thought of it that way. I reckon the class rating is primarily influenced by your highest rated players. That’s good to know.

Also, that’s wild that both North Carolina and South Carolina were able to each land classes like that off of 4-8 records and with both coaches facing probable “must win” seasons next fall.

been true for a while that recruits don't care about one season's W-L. it's a pretty easy sell for a coach to say "we just didn't have you yet!" once you've stacked bad seasons, then it becomes an issue.

 

[akillesheel]

Ok. Check this out. South Carolina has 15 recruits. Ten 4 star. Five 3 star. Class is ranked 15th. We are 18th by rivals. 3 behind. We also have ten 4 stars and 30 3 stars. Clearly those additional 25 3 stars aren't moving needle much.

247 has a class calculator. If you calculate UNC's class with just its top 15, its rank moves from 17th to 27th.

 

[SmilingJack]

Man personally I’d think that the money involved would net a better return? I don’t think even as diehard as H79 is he’d have invested this much in a maybe!?!

 

[mpaer]

Man personally I’d think that the money involved would net a better return? I don’t think even as diehard as H79 is he’d have invested this much in a maybe!?!

I don't know the money involved
But I would guess we are at about 20
With 5-10 blowing us away