2 reputable crystal ball-ers have 6'3" 290 2022 NG going M
Rivals has him at 295:
He's 16. So it's probably safe to say he'll be gaining weight by Fall camp 2022.
Link to his highlights at hudl:
https://www.hudl.com/profile/11303115/JORDAN-PHILLIPS
Phillips and Nolen would be an incredible DT pair for this class.
We need to be 8-4, 9-3 this year and get some difference makers in this '22 class.
We need positive momentum and hype.
I think this staff is an elite recruiting staff, but they need some on-field momentum behind them to really flourish.
Should it be concerning that Rutgers has a higher ranked class (according to rivals) than us at this point?
Probably not, UM only has 7 recruits so far (according to Rivals). There’s a lot of time to go, however, Rutgers will probably make a splash this year with the new coach/system and will probably fall right inside or right outside of the top 20-25 if they keep their momentum.
They have 5 more commits than us, and our recruiting average is significantly higher than theirs. So... no.
Just like Alabama shouldn’t be concerned they’re not in the top 10 right now (looking at 247 Composite). Florida, USC, and Clemson aren’t in the top 20. Auburn is 48th. Ole Miss and Miami are 59 and 60.
Its incredibly early in the process and the recruiting rankings will change dramatically over the next 6 months as we get to early signing day. Classes aren’t even half full at this point, as most schools are still sitting in the single digits for commitments.
Exactly. It's way too early to be looking at the rankings. Like you said, they have more commits which is going to translate to a higher ranking this early. The thing to pay attention to - right now - is the average / recruit which I'm fine with. We're having a very solid recruiting year
A perfect example was Alabama last year. They were no where to be found this time last year and all of a sudden they exploded as signing day got closer. Not trying to compare us to Alabama but you'll see a lot of the recruiting powers hold off on taking commitments from dozens of their backup plans waiting on their elite prospects / recruits to commit. Teams like Rutgers don't have that luxury and have to take a commitment from a very good player when they can
And then teams like Rutgers lose said very good player 2 weeks before signing day.
No - but Rutgers will not be the floor for the Big 10 any longer.
Good point here. Just curious, who is the floor now? Illinois, Nebraska, Sparty are the first three that come to mind for me. Would be interested to get others' thoughts.
I think you are dreaming with Sparty in the list, unfortunately.
Illinois and Nebraska however...
You're probably right but Sparty isn't exactly on an upward trend right now. If we could start getting our heads out of our asses, there is no way they beat us.
Rutgers won’t have a higher ranking class. When It’s all said in done Uof〽️ will have a top 10 class while the Scarlet Knights won’t be in the top 25. Last year Bama wasn’t in the top 10 for a while and they finished with the numbed one class.
I guess the Novacaine worked.
They also have a better class ranking than Alabama. Should Alabama be worried too?
Nope. Not at all.
Usually at this point in the cycle, even Alabama isn't in the top-10 for recruiting classes. Much less having the top class overall like they do almost every year. But everyone and their grandmother knows where they're going to be by NSD.
I don't care how good of a coach Greg Schiano is or how successful of a season he might have with Rutgers next season. He will not end this recruiting cycle with a top-10 class. He just won't, and I'd argue he never will at Rutgers. That's not criticizing him per se. That's acknowledging the natural ceiling that his program has.
UM has the 10th-rated class per player rating according to Rivals; Rutgers is around 25th. That's good for Rutgers.
If I'm PSU I'd be a bit worried as both those schools have about the same number of recruits and RU seems to be picking up a couple of the higher-rated Jersey kids that usually went to Happy Valley.
The top 15 includes Rutgers, Boston College, Mississippi State, and Arkansas. It's June 1st.
Once Rutgers starts losing games they will have decommitments. I don't expect many to stay. Take a look at Kansas a few years ago, who had some top prospects seemingly randomly all committing to them. Jamarr Chase was committed to them in 2018.
There's always a subpar team who gets a quick start and gets some big-name commits who end up decommitting. Last year was Tennessee, who you could put on every year. 2020 Miami had 20! decommits. 2019 you could put Florida State in there.
Ocoee, Fl. - sight of one of the worst instances of voting rights suppression (read massacre) in our nation’s history. The Orlando Sentinel had an enlightening article on this topic last year. Worth a read.
I think you're on the wrong thread if not wrong website.
If you aren't looking at every single moment in your life through the lens of social justice and how it influences your political beliefs then you are a bad person.
Your hyperbole aside, judging another's lens is its own error.
You can afford to avoid such messy facts when you’re a privileged white man. It’s like reading about a player in Scottsboro, Alabama, and saying can’t we just keep it to football.
Maybe it depends on each persons view on life in general. I don't have a problem with someone dropping a little insight on the board. Each person can decide whether they want to indulge or not. Which is worse, sharing the information, or suppressing it?
Or, and hear me out, you can just read an interesting fact about something that is objectively bad tangentially related to the topic at hand (a recruit's hometown) and not presume it's actually a veiled shot at your personal morality.
If this background info triggers anyone then maybe they should take a deeper look at what it says about them.
So many are adverse to inconvenient truths about American history. And Thats not a sign of strength. Those blind spots are dangerous for all.
Sam Webb (the CB’er) mentioned this young man last week in his “recruiting roundup”and noted he was from Ocoee, and if you didn’t know the significance of that town, you should look it up. I did and noted it here.
Thanks for sharing. I hadn't heard about it so I looked it up.
I'm not sure why you are getting negged so much. I find it interesting to learn more about these kids, where they come from, etc. in addition to how well they can football. Hell, this kid grew up in a town that didn't officially declare it was no longer a "sundown town" until 2018, when he was already a teenager.
Just gave scanner a +1 to counteract the negs. And a +1 to you as well.
Thank you very much, I appreciate.
People are really kicking my ass with this one.
The ass is a long way from the heart.
Herb Brooks
Sooooo...is it Blue@LSU or Gustave? Gustave or Blue@LSU? How does this work?
Sorry bro. Not me. I wasn’t getting negged.
Edited to add that I shouldn't assume you are a guy. Saying "bro" is a habit I need to break.
Scanner blue is Gustave ferbert
Yea I'm thinking that scanner blue just ousted his burner.
judging by points, LSU is the burner and gustave is the primary. Neither are scanner, unless he's running a plurality of accounts.
I resent being called a burner (though I do admit to being a smoker). ?
But seriously, I think your grey cells are slipping there, Monsieur Poirot. My account was created in 2016 and I didn't comment for the first time until last year (2020). I guess I could be playing the long con, but the truth is I'm just not that patient.
A duality of accounts rather than a plurality?
Kicking your ass about what?!
It's that old "bearer of bad news" thing.
JFC....sundown towns were still an actual thing no more than three years ago? What a screwed up world we live in.
Guess it also goes to show my general level of ignorance on the subject if I didn't even know.
I was unaware of sundown towns as a thing altogether until just now. So... my gratitude (whichever person they may or may not be). Also, WTF
edit:
The towns of Minden, Nevada and Gardnerville, Nevada had an ordinance from 1917 to 1974 that required Native Americans to leave the towns by 6:30 p.m. each day.[21] A whistle, later a siren, was sounded at 6 p.m. daily alerting Native Americans to leave by sundown.[20]:23[21] As of 2021, the siren remains in use in Minden.[21]
Wtf!
I would wager a large sum of money that there are small towns all over the country that still have laws/ordinances like this, they’re just so old that no one remembers them and they’re not enforced (thankfully). The small town I grew up outside of in Southern Illinois still had a law like this and I’m 37, so not ages ago (it wasn’t enforced at all)
Closer to home, I'm pretty sure Howell was considered to be a sundown town as recently as the late 80's/early 90's.
He's getting negged because there's a lot of people on this blog who would rather pretend shit like that didn't and doesn't happen. The "shut up and dribble" people.
I think the issue here is less about your post being inappropriate on it's own (it's not) and more about how these conversations (on this website and others) tend to devolve. It would be awesome it we could have respectful, balanced discussions about issues like this here, but there is too high a chance that it goes in a bad direction and now either the thread is fucked (there's too much "debate" to sift through and no actual discussion on the recruit) or worse, it gets locked.
Unfortunately, too many on MGoBlog can't behave, so it's often best to avoid those issues here. That doesn't mean it's not an important issue, but keeping "time and place" in mind is not the same thing as "suppression."
Respectfully, fuck that noise.
I cannot get on board with avoiding topics of conversation because some don't have the maturity/character not to take it down a path that leads to personal attacks or other forms of hostility. Let them rise to the occasion or learn from the consequences. Let's NOT enable those who practice insensibility and intolerance by avoiding difficult topics.
You can’t have thoughtful, difficult discussions with anonymous users on a sports blog.
Maybe a standing politics subpage would help, just so the people who don’t come here for GoBlue69’s opinion on political issues know where to avoid.
Maybe a standing politics subpage would help
I'm continually amazed that the people who run MGoBlog resolutely refuse to take advantage of one of the primary advantages that websites offer: the ease of organizing information into discrete subject areas, and the flexibility to make changes on the fly.
If MGoBlog had taken the simple, expedient step of confining all COVID arguments to a specific separate section of the blog accessed via a link on the home page, a huge amount of the ridiculous argumentation that infested the main board would have been confined to a separate area, and the blog as a whole would have benefitted enormously.