State of Texas Recruiting Rankings (11/22/22)

[Glory to the Green]

This doesn’t look good, Mean Green Faithful. I hope I’m missing something.

 

Edited November 22, 2022 by Glory to the Green

[Hunter Green]

Are we really surprised?

[zenhuddy]

 Very ugly picture painted here ! 

[97and03]

Well add a new recruit today but I think in general this staff is largely going to target transfers. 

[Glory to the Green]

 

[Wag Tag]

Unless you can get a HS kid that  can come into a position of need as a 2nd backup or starter, we should focus on transfers. Developing HS kids is history. We are a very young team.

[untphd]

Looking at the transfer portal, most of the good players are gone. That leaves us with what? 

[StealthEagle84]

I'm not overly concerned here, as I don't take much stock in these ranking systems. How many years running has UT had top 10 recruiting classes? I digress......

[MeanGreenDan]

I mean, we'd only have to DOUBLE our recruiting score to move up from 10th place to....*checks notes*... 9th place!

[Wag Tag]

14 minutes ago, untphd said:

Looking at the transfer portal, most of the good players are gone. That leaves us with what? 

 Most haven’t declared. I would expect a larger TP than last year.

[untphd]

2 hours ago, MeanGreenDan said:

I mean, we'd only have to DOUBLE our recruiting score to move up from 10th place to....*checks notes*... 9th place!

9th place, that is somewhat concerning. Only at UNT.

[BillySee58]

 

7 hours ago, Glory to the Green said:

This doesn’t look good, Mean Green Faithful. I hope I’m missing something.

 

We have 8 scholarship seniors, 1 of which is our punter and another 1 of which is our kicker which are positions that Littrell has never offered scholarships to High School players from. You don’t sign 20 high school kids when you’re only graduating 6 non-specialists.

It’s going to be a small class of traditional recruits, with players transferring out likely to get replaced with players transferring in.

[UNTLifer]

41 minutes ago, BillySee58 said:

 

We have 8 scholarship seniors, 1 of which is our punter and another 1 of which is our kicker which are positions that Littrell has never offered scholarships to High School players from. You don’t sign 20 high school kids when you’re only graduating 6 non-specialists.

It’s going to be a small class of traditional recruits, with players transferring out likely to get replaced with players transferring in.

This.  These rankings are not only based on quality but lean heavily towards volume.  We are going to have a small HS class for the reasons noted above and thus a lower ranking.

[MrAlien]

with the coaching situation up in the air, its no surprise that recruiting is ranked so bad. 

[DeepGreen]

6 minutes ago, MrAlien said:

with the coaching situation up in the air, its no surprise that recruiting is ranked so bad. 

Not sure why you received an eye roll.

[NorthTexasWeLove]

3 hours ago, StealthEagle84 said:

I'm not overly concerned here, as I don't take much stock in these ranking systems. How many years running has UT had top 10 recruiting classes? I digress......

UT is an outlier. 

Recruiting rankings and on field performance typically stride together. It just doesn't mean a lot, in means everything in terms of success. 

[p_phelps]

4 hours ago, untphd said:

Looking at the transfer portal, most of the good players are gone. That leaves us with what? 

You know the transfer portal isn't open yet right

[97and03]

5 hours ago, untphd said:

Looking at the transfer portal, most of the good players are gone. That leaves us with what? 

Uh I think the portal isn’t open until early December 

[untphd]

Thanks I must have been looking at last years.

[Mike Jackson]

4 hours ago, NorthTexasWeLove said:

UT is an outlier. 

Recruiting rankings and on field performance typically stride together. It just doesn't mean a lot, in means everything in terms of success. 

TAMU fans would like to have a word with you...  Well many words and most of them with 4 letters.

[GrandGreen]

Recruiting rankings are a fun thing to ponder, but do they really mean anything?

Very little for schools like NT, who seldom get anything but 3 star recruits.  A 3 star basically means anyone that gets a D! ship.  

Then the parsing of the number value that someone stuck on the record by some unknown process.  

[emmitt01]

16 hours ago, BillySee58 said:

 

We have 8 scholarship seniors, 1 of which is our punter and another 1 of which is our kicker which are positions that Littrell has never offered scholarships to High School players from. You don’t sign 20 high school kids when you’re only graduating 6 non-specialists.

It’s going to be a small class of traditional recruits, with players transferring out likely to get replaced with players transferring in.

I was a bit skeptical of this explanation, so I checked UTSA’s depth chart to see if others are kicking our tail in recruiting while being “young” like us.  
 

Good lord, UTSA better win this year because their starters are VERY senior heavy.  

[BillySee58]

8 minutes ago, emmitt01 said:

I was a bit skeptical of this explanation, so I checked UTSA’s depth chart to see if others are kicking our tail in recruiting while being “young” like us.  
 

Good lord, UTSA better win this year because their starters are VERY senior heavy.  

One thing I’ll say about that is that schools treated the COVID year differently with how they list their eligibility on their rosters. After the 2020 season, we listed our players with the exact same grade classification in 2021 that they had in 2020. Most schools, including UTSA, did choose to progress their players’ grade classifications forward a year like what normally would have happened.

So UTSA does have a lot of players listed as seniors who are eligible for another season due to the 2020 COVID eligibility freeze, including Frank Harris and Zakhari Franklin. They are listed as seniors but have the same eligibility as guys like Deshawn Gaddie and Jyaire Shorter, who we list as juniors.

[Dannymacfan]

47 minutes ago, GrandGreen said:

Recruiting rankings are a fun thing to ponder, but do they really mean anything?

They mean nothing.  Really seem like a waste of time. Especially now with the portal.

Edited November 23, 2022 by Dannymacfan

[Green Otaku]

1 hour ago, emmitt01 said:

I was a bit skeptical of this explanation, so I checked UTSA’s depth chart to see if others are kicking our tail in recruiting while being “young” like us.  
 

Good lord, UTSA better win this year because their starters are VERY senior heavy.  

 

They can just reload in the portal.