ESPN Recruiting Nation Rankings 1/13/13

[ufngineer]

RecruitingNaton Ranks (current) In case you were curious:

1 Florida
2 Alabama
3 Notre Dame
4 Ohio State
5 Texas A&M
6 USC
7 Michigan
8 LSU
9 Georgia
10 Florida State
11 Texas
12 Auburn
13 Clemson
14 Virginia Tech
15 North Carolina
16 South Carolina
17 Washington
18 Vanderbilt
19 Oklahoma
20 UCLA
21 Oregon
22 Ole Miss
23 Miami (FL)
24 Penn State
25 Oklahoma State
26 Nebraska
27 Mississippi State
28 California
29 Baylor
30 Wisconsin
31 Virginia
32 Tennessee
33 West Virginia
34 Michigan State
35 Rutgers
36 Missouri
37 Arizona
38 Stanford
39 Pittsburgh
40 Indiana

[jms]

OSU and MIch top 5 PLEASE!

[GatorJeff]

[quote=ufngineer;6315660]RecruitingNaton Ranks (current) In case you were curious:

1 Florida
2 Alabama
3 Notre Dame
4 Ohio State
5 Texas A&M
6 USC
7 Michigan
8 LSU
9 Georgia
10 Florida State
11 Texas
12 Auburn
13 Clemson
14 Virginia Tech
15 North Carolina
16 South Carolina
17 Washington
18 Vanderbilt
19 Oklahoma
20 UCLA
21 Oregon
22 Ole Miss
23 Miami (FL)
24 Penn State
25 Oklahoma State
26 Nebraska
27 Mississippi State
28 California
29 Baylor
30 Wisconsin
31 Virginia
32 Tennessee
33 West Virginia
34 Michigan State
35 R!utgers
36 Missouri
37 Arizona
38 Stanford
39 Pittsburgh
40 Indiana[/QUOTE

Recruiting Nation is ESPN, right? Looks good to me!

[ufngineer]

Yes, espn - recruitingnation

[DieAGator]

All I care about is meeting our needs to field the best team the staff can coach up. If we do that I won't read a lot into class rankings. Our staff can coach so we just need their guys.

[ofmgator]

Rankings are great for off season banter but it's what you do with the players once they arrive on campus that counts. SOS never has a great class but he coaches them up unbelieveably well. WM needs to do the same.

[StrangeGator]

Originally Posted by ofmgator

Rankings are great for off season banter but it's what you do with the players once they arrive on campus that counts. SOS never has a great class but he coaches them up unbelieveably well. WM needs to do the same.

Fortunately, we already have some of the best players in this class on campus. We only have to wait until spring to see these guys play, except for Rolin and maybe Ivie. Taylor, McMillan, Anzalone, Robinson and Cummings will be working out, learning our system, then competing with established players during spring practice. That made a huge difference for Morrison this past year. Not only do we have a bigger and better class this year, more of our projected impact players are EEs. Better still we have more continuity in our coaching staff. This will be the most exciting spring in years.

[themistocles]

Originally Posted by DieAGator

Our staff can coach so we just need their guys.

I'm not sure the offense was exactly "outstanding," given a National Rank of 103 (of 120) for Total Offense, 76 for Scoring Offense, and even 39 for Rushing Offense - by the way, passing offense was 114.

Admittedly, statistics don't tell the entire story, by a long shot, but they usually are somewhat indicative.

This year's team was utterly dependent on Defense, and from that defense, 8 from the 2-deep and 6 starters are leaving, in addition to the leading rusher, the leading receiver and 4 of the top 6 leading receivers.

Next year has to be considered a rebuilding year, and you really can't count on New Frosh to contribute much.

[gatorich]

#5 Texas A&M....I have no idea where they are usually ranked but I would think their move to the SEC is already paying dividends.

[missourigator]

Surprises to me. 1) Vandy at 18! Wow! when has that every happened? Stanford at 38, I thought it would be higher with their recent success. And Penn State at 24, they must be doing a heck of a job recruiting considering all the sanctions they are under.

[gator1986]

Originally Posted by missourigator

Surprises to me. 1) Vandy at 18! Wow! when has that every happened? Stanford at 38, I thought it would be higher with their recent success. And Penn State at 24, they must be doing a heck of a job recruiting considering all the sanctions they are under.

Stanford's stock will rise, they're a hard school to get into your GPA and SAT scores have to be superb, so they can really only get super good and super smart athletes... Which is kind of scary...

[gator1986]

Originally Posted by gatorich

#5 Texas A&M....I have no idea where they are usually ranked but I would think their move to the SEC is already paying dividends.

That and Kevin Sumlin

[luvtruthg8r]

Originally Posted by ofmgator

SOS never has a great class......

That is utterly and completely wrong! He had MANY great recruiting classes.

[DieAGator]

Originally Posted by luvtruthg8r

That is utterly and completely wrong! He had MANY great recruiting classes.

He's probably had better classes than any coach in history of SC.

[Gatorrick22]

Originally Posted by jms

OSU and MIch top 5 PLEASE!

That's what I was thinking too. I went to the TOS to see for myself why they have us ranked #6 - the schools in front have no one worthy in comparison, it's quite comical since it's really just for bragging right anyway. OSU and Michigan are two of the schools that have no one really worth noting.... compared to the Gators.

[jms]

The class with Wuerffel, Bates, and the safety from Miami was pretty strong

[steve6137]

Originally Posted by ofmgator

Rankings are great for off season banter but it's what you do with the players once they arrive on campus that counts. SOS never has a great class but he coaches them up unbelieveably well. WM needs to do the same.

1. You're wrong about the quality of SOS's recruiting classes.
2. They didn't look that "coached up" in the Swamp last year. WM doesn't "need to do the same". He did better.

[trekcid]

SOS recruits players based on observation note stars. He signs a lot of 3 star players that
compete very well in the SEC at SC. Coach Boom agrees with SOS. "I will take my 3 star players and beat your 5 star players."

[gtr2x]

Originally Posted by gatorich

#5 Texas A&M....I have no idea where they are usually ranked but I would think their move to the SEC is already paying dividends.

Maybe, but more likely its due to their winning and all the pub sumlin and manziel are getting. Sure doesn't seem to have helped Missouri much so far...rolling in at #36.