Recruit Team Rankings mean less now

[billybud]

Some coaches have rapidly moved to building teams with a combination of high school recruits and portal transfers. Recruit class rankings may not be as valid as they used to be.

I remember a former coach saying that he was not interested in anybody who would transfer, it was all about developing your recruits out of high school. That paradigm is shifting.

One team that I have been watching has had transfers playing right next to players recruited out of high school...and for '23, has 16 high school recruits paired with 6 new players incoming from the portal. A pretty good catch, I think, that will not be ranked among the best class rankings.

And some really good players end up being the #2 or #3 at their position on a particular team and will transfer. I will be watching Zakhari Williams to see how this transfer-in DB works out.

 

[AD DB Burner]

247sports has a combined ranking system that accounts for both high school recruits and transfers...

 

[gioff2323]

What’s our ranking? I’m not in the business of paying folks so they can ignore me - I have a spouse for that!

 

[AD DB Burner]

What’s our ranking? I’m not in the business of paying folks so they can ignore me - I have a spouse for that!

Right where you would expect given there is no paysite on 247 for UConn.

 

[Dizzy21]

What’s our ranking? I’m not in the business of paying folks so they can ignore me - I have a spouse for that!

247 - 113th combined
Rivals - not ranked
on3 124th

 

[UCFan1513]

Don’t follow football much (mostly basketball), but am becoming more interested after this season. The ranking seems to be pretty low this year given some success this season - is that due to a strong core of returning players (i.e., don’t need a big recruiting class) as well as the staff trying to keep options open for the portal? Might some of the recruits be potentially under-rated? Just surprised it’s not a better ranked class

 

[Exit 4]

Feels like the major sites are putting much less effort into reviewing HS talent. Fewer mid season grades or grade refreshes. Overall the effort is so shoddy that the ratings are akin to using a sun dial made with your hand. Yeah, the grades sort of tell you if it’s morning noon or night… sorta.