Reporting Day Notes, "ya Buying It, Part Iii"

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DentonRC

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Has anything been decided about fentriss yet? I really hate to lose him but i guess it is a position that we can afford to lose a few players at.

[GrandGreen]

I think points 1 & 2 are obvious. On recruiting, I think it is too early to tell but odds are with a limited number of ships and needs in the harder to recruit defensive line that recruiting will be substantially down. As far as last years rating, Vito may want to consider that although NT lost Horton, MTSU the mythical winner on rivals lost the one recruit, Jones, that mysterious moved them above NT and Troy. Have not checked but willing to bet that Troy lost a lot more than one of their over 30 player class. As far as the Scout ratings, NT was so far ahead of the rest of the Belt losing Horton would have little effect. It would be interesting if Rival, Vito or someone would do the research to evaluate recruiting based on who actually shows up.

NT is down from last year in numbers, but I don't think NT had any recruits rating above 2 stars at this time. Franklin was after his senior season upgraded to a 3. People keep stating that last year's down year hurt recruiting but fail to consider that almost all of NT's last year recruits were signed after that season. I do think that it is critical for NT to have a much better season than last year and have a positive result on the stadium issue to maintain any recruiting momentum.