If you want to understand just how good our recruiting class really is, just look in the "Average Stars" column. What this reflects is how good each of your recruits are relative to the other school. Here our Average stars per player is 3.94, which is the highest in the nation. I personally see this as a more true ranking of our class.
Ed ----- Original Message ----- From: Shane Ford To: [email protected] Sent: Thursday, February 05, 2009 11:28 AM Subject: Re: FW: [gatortalk] Re: Rank Hmmm.... Rivals has us ranked at #10, which is a little lower than ESPN (#5). PROSPECT COMMITMENTS School TOTAL Commits Commits Commits Avg Stars Points 1 Alabama 27 4 14 9 3.81 2,786 2 LSU 25 5 11 9 3.84 2,762 3 Ohio State 25 2 15 8 3.76 2,478 4 USC 19 4 11 2 3.89 2,410 5 Texas 20 3 11 6 3.85 2,375 6 Florida State 21 2 10 8 3.62 2,154 7 Michigan 22 1 13 6 3.59 2,124 8 North Carolina 29 1 13 10 3.34 2,084 9 Georgia 18 1 13 4 3.83 2,053 10 Florida 16 3 9 4 3.94 2,017 11 Miami 20 2 9 8 3.60 1,968 12 South Carolina 29 0 14 11 3.34 1,952 13 Oklahoma 23 0 11 11 3.43 1,830 14 UCLA 27 0 11 14 3.33 1,752 15 Arkansas 30 1 8 20 3.30 1,689 16 Michigan State 23 0 10 10 3.30 1,675 17 Ole Miss 37 1 8 22 3.11 1,628 18 Auburn 28 0 9 16 3.21 1,599 19 Stanford 22 0 8 12 3.27 1,583 20 Notre Dame 17 1 9 4 3.47 1,508 21 Texas A&M 28 1 4 21 3.14 1,403 22 Mississippi State 27 0 7 17 3.15 1,395 23 Tennessee 18 0 8 10 3.44 1,387 24 Virginia Tech 22 0 5 14 3.09 1,357 25 Penn State 27 0 7 12 2.96 1,335 -------------- Original message from "Buck Shot" <[email protected]>: -------------- Actually it is Rivals that has some 'nolie ownership. Gene Williams, aka Dot.com, has some type of ownership there. As as a result, many times FSU's recruits are "enhanced" and UF's are "devalued. The crazy thing about this is other than the FSU - UF thing, Rivals is perhap the best of the services for ranking recruits and classes. Scout, IMNO, is the poorest, due to their rating system which is based on the total number of recruits you sign. So when we signed a relatively small class, no matter if all 16 had been 5 star recruits, we had no chance to be ranked in the top 10. ESPN, which in the past has been a joke, for the last two or three years has made a serious committment to HS recruiting and now their credibility is among the best. Go Figure............. ----- Original Message ----- From: Shane Ford To: [email protected] Sent: Thursday, February 05, 2009 9:04 AM Subject: Re: FW: [gatortalk] Re: Rank I look at it this way... Scout.com's rankings of our recruiting classes versus F$U's has explained the scoring differential in the past 4 years games (UF has outscored F$U 145 to 48) since 2005. Hmmmmm.... You think they may be inflating F$U's class rankings and deflating ours???? :-) GO GATORS!!! Shane Ford Nashville Gator -------------- Original message from "Oliver Barry" <[email protected]>: -------------- They never like us. I noticed Nick Alajajian was a 5 star player by them until he committed to the Gators, then he suddenly became a 4 star. Sump'n fishy there! Oliver -----Original Message----- From: Gatornet Admin <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, February 04, 2009 5:41 PM To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Subject: [gatortalk] Re: Rank Didn't we learn several years ago that Scout was owned and operated by nolies? Randy Lyons Sent wirelessly -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] Sent: Wednesday, February 04, 2009 6:34 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [gatortalk] Re: Rank According to the G'ville Sun: ESPN 5 Rivels 7 According to their NSD site: Scout 21 GoGators!!! Mark Quoting Oliver Barry <[email protected]>: > I know it doesn't matter what they all think, but has anyone seen where our > class is ranked by all the different services? > Oliver > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ GATORS: ONE VOICE ON SATURDAY - NO VOICE ON SUNDAY! 1996 National Football Champions | 2006 National Basketball Champions 2006 National Football Champions | 2007 National Basketball Champions 2008 National Football Champions | Three Heisman Trophy winners: Steve Spurrier (1966), Danny Wuerffel (1996), Tim Tebow (2007) - Visit our website at www.gatornet.us -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
