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UConn Football 2018 National Signing Day/Press Conference Coverage

I think our best year ever was around 65 or 70. We've never recruited highly ranked classes
 
Exit 4 said:
And now 247 has all our recruits in their system and has us at #111 nationally and last in the AAC.
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Now they have us at 100.

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History Geek said:
I usually don't put too much credence in these rankings but 11th out of 12 in the league made me pause. But I see a lot of potential here. I hope I'm not looking at things through National Flag Blue glasses though.
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Look at the 24/7 UConn player rankings. Here are UConn's 3 lowest rated recruits: Lwal Uguak, Elijah Jeffreys, and Kevon Jones.

Uguak shows up as the lowest possible 2*, but he is rated by Canada Football Chat as the #6 recruit in Canada. Jeffreys played QB in high school, and was a Boston Globe All-Scholastic at QB, but will come to UConn as a WR. His track times are 6.65 sec in the 55m and 11.21 sec in 100m at 6'4", 190 lbs. Jones was the Courant Defensive Player of the Year and a unanimous Connecticut All-State football player.

I think all 3 could be major contributors at UConn, but they fell through the 247 recruiting cracks.
 
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Being ranked so low in the AAC is a little concerning. I trust Randy and his coaching staff (nice to have adult supervision running the football program now), though, we're going to need better recruits to compete in this league. Hopefully, Randy is able to coach these guys up and if we start going to bowl games on a regular basis, then our recruiting should improve.
 
Mike Farrell of all people always said Edsall recruits were the toughest to rank because he had his own system that he didn’t share. Also he didn’t offer until he saw the guy in person. Almost nobody does that any more. Where we are (this is me now) you want guys who have not reached their potential so those are way harder to rank. The other thing is Edsall is good at projecting guys. Sherman was a 2 star linebacker from a smallish program in Mass. Lutrus was a 2 star running back. One of the dbacks who played in the NFL after UConn was a 2 star receiver coming out of high school and another was an unrated qb.
 
uconntailgater said:
Being ranked so low in the AAC is a little concerning. I trust Randy and his coaching staff (nice to have adult supervision running the football program now), though, we're going to need better recruits to compete in this league. Hopefully, Randy is able to coach these guys up and if we start going to bowl games on a regular basis, then our recruiting should improve.
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Agree. Concerned that UConn is not recruiting competitively with it's peers(AAC) and that bowl appearances will be the main catalyst towards better recruiting.
 
UConnJim said:
Look at the 24/7 UConn player rankings. Here are UConn's 3 lowest rated recruits: Lwal Uguak, Elijah Jeffreys, and Kevon Jones.

Uguak shows up as the lowest possible 2*, but he is rated by Canada Football Chat as the #6 recruit in Canada. Jeffreys played QB in high school, and was a Boston Globe All-Scholastic at QB, but will come to UConn as a WR. His track times are 6.65 sec in the 55m and 11.21 sec in 100m at 6'4", 190 lbs. Jones was the Courant Defensive Player of the Year and a unanimous Connecticut All-State football player.

I think all 3 could be major contributors at UConn, but they fell through the 247 recruiting cracks.
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These are exactly the kind of people recruited when Randy was here first. Get solid players, Coach them, watch their academics, and build a winner!
 
I’d love to land 24 5-star kids but I also remember reading one of the National columnists when Edsall was rehired who said that Edsall’s teams were always better than his players when discussing his recruiting.
 
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freescooter said:
Mike Farrell of all people always said Edsall recruits were the toughest to rank because he had his own system that he didn’t share. Also he didn’t offer until he saw the guy in person. Almost nobody does that any more. Where we are (this is me now) you want guys who have not reached their potential so those are way harder to rank. The other thing is Edsall is good at projecting guys. Sherman was a 2 star linebacker from a smallish program in Mass. Lutrus was a 2 star running back. One of the dbacks who played in the NFL after UConn was a 2 star receiver coming out of high school and another was an unrated qb.
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There's the Randy method of identifying guys who are 2 or 3 years away from peaking, then there's the University of Texas method of recruiting where they always get guys who peaked in high school. That's why they always have a top 10 recruiting class and finish 6-6.
 
freescooter said:
I’d love to land 24 5-star kids but I also remember reading one of the National columnists when Edsall was rehired who said that Edsall’s teams were always better than his players when discussing his recruiting.
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At our peak, we'd recruit from 55 to 75 but play anywhere from 30 to 50. Others may disagree with those numbers slightly.

I'd sell my soul for that right now. Well, not really ... but you understand what I'm saying.
 
Redding Husky said:
At our peak, we'd recruit from 55 to 75 but play anywhere from 30 to 50. Others may disagree with those numbers slightly.

I'd sell my soul for that right now. Well, not really ... but you understand what I'm saying.
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You could have sold your house instead...
 
Still, like what Edsall said about Kevon Jones and how he was very underrated in the state and I believe him. Sio Moore, Danny Lasanah, Julis Williams, Lawerence Wilson, Lutrus, and Greg Llyod Jr. The highest rated class was 66th on Rivals and most times they were around 80 or so. I trust Edsall, more than ratings. He put 27 players in the NFL and five more that I remember in the CFL.
 
Some semi useless info, but since I went through time it took to look up thought might as well show. Looked at a site the listed 2018 recruits by # and type of offers. Listed only FBS offered players and was per players info (site listed problems with this but so be it). Had total of 3,856 players with at least 1 FBS offer. They also had a column for how many "top 25 team" offers did the player have (didn't see actual list of who top 25 teams were) and this was 1,050 with at least one, some had more than 20.
So in the UConn pool of potential recruits if this listing were 100% accurate as to more and higher offers = better players then 27% best players have option to go to top 25 team and since all don't (just divide 1,050 by 25 and too many per school) some go to other schools but haven't seen anywhere that UConn beat out top 25 team for a recruit. So UConn has to compete without a single player amongst the top 1,050 in the country.
Not saying that UConn should be getting some of these top guys, but just think how that degree of difficulty factors into trying to be competitive. I think I have a better appreciation of what UCF did last year and vs. "talent" Auburn had available to them, another tip of the hat to our conference mates who did well.
 
Husky68 said:
Some semi useless info, but since I went through time it took to look up thought might as well...
...Not saying that UConn should be getting some of these top guys, but just think how that degree of difficulty factors into trying to be competitive. I think I have a better appreciation of what UCF did last year and vs. "talent" Auburn had available to them, another tip of the hat to our conference mates who did well.
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Great work. Thanks for that.

What UCF did in the last two yeas was amazing. It takes a lot of talent as a coaching staff to take a G5 program that was 0-12 and in two years win a NY6 bowl and yes, one of the best teams in the country. Coaching kids up is a must at our level. I’m confident RE 2.0 et al can do it.
 
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Winning is the only way this turns around, end of story. We had momentum when RE left and PP and BD destroyed that and then some. It will take a massive effort by a coaching staff to make this team into a competitor. It will need to be done with underrated recruits. I trust (really, what else can we do?) that RE can do this again. He did it first go round and I have to believe he knows the kids he's getting and what they can do and will have them competing again in a few years. Unfortunately, this year will be ugly but who knows.

Once this team even goes 6-6 we should be able to pull better recruiting grades. Until then, we can't dwell on these numbers.
 
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