Looking forward to 79 replies telling us that a kid with offers from Penn State and Georgia is bad because he’s a three-star. In fact just go ahead and reply to this comment with all of those
I think for the most part everyone understands that the rankings are skewed this year due to covid and it’s better to look at camp offers rather than stars. The staff seem to be doing a great job of closing quickly. Like this kid has recent offers from PSU and Georgia, but he quickly committed to our staff. It has to be a good sign.
Whoa whoa whoa, that’s a much more reasonable reply than I was looking for!
I know I'm getting old and have been here too long because I swear I've seen these same arguments about recruiting for going on a decade. Everyone freaks out in June and July, claim the walls are collapsing, and then UM winds up with a top-15 class that we're all like "hey, that's got some good recruits who'll turn into good players" and then amnesia strikes and we do it all again.
In particular with a kid who just moved from Canada to CT to get more exposure, I trust coaches who have seen him in person over an evaluation likely based on film from over a year ago. The fact he camped at PSU and UGa and got immediate offers speaks to his impressiveness in person.
Exposure is the key word here. This is a dude from Canada whose junior year was during the pandemic. The fact that he has UGA and PSU offers despite being borderline invisible to scouting efforts says something about him.
Exactly, but for whatever reason we have a rather large (or at least vocal) portion of our fan base that refuses to look at recruiting in context.
More often than not, it’s more important to look at WHY a kid is ranked how he is than it is to just look at his ranking. My issue with the star gazing crowd, is that the recruiting sites are rarely accurate when it comes to the individual grades for recruits. Granted, it’s a difficult process to accurately grade and rank a couple thousand recruits. But fans can’t simply look at their rankings alone and judge. They miss A LOT. Especially when you’re looking at a kid coming in from another country to an area that isn’t highly scouted to begin with, and doing so during a pandemic that severely limited the evaluation period.
If we didn’t have the rankings and we saw a kid with this size, holding offers from MSU, PSU and UGA, then we would likely assume he was a high 3*-low 4* at least. But alas, the recruiting sites have a profile for him but haven’t adequately scouted him so his ranking is low. So he must be bad *shrugs*
Welcome to the family, Allesandro!
Sounds like a racecar driver
It sounds to me like Steve Lorenz created a fake recruiting profile for himself.
We're all being trolled.
Yeah no shit. For an instant I thought since we were so bad @ foosball we would try to put together a decent F1 team.
I'm not sure what this kid looks like right now, but his sophomore film from up in the Great White North is pretty good, IMO. I love the way he moves his feet. If you find a kid with that size (6'6", 275-285) who moves his feet that well, I think you take him every time, regardless of ranking.
Sounds perfect for the grape stomper team. Two sport athlete with the spaghetti bender team.
Hey maybe Mario and Luigi Spaghetti will commit next. Then we can have Tommy Cheese threaten our opponents so they wouldn't dare score on us or take a pipe to the ol knee cap
Ed Marinara will cover them like a sauce.
So last year Dominic and Giovanni join the family, and now we have an Alessandro. Makes missing out on Rocco last year hurt a little bit more.
Italian relative of Steve Lorenz?
This is great news, I was really getting nervous about OL recruiting in this class, but it looks like it's on the upswing now. Love the current momentum.
MOAR PAESANS!
A little perspective here....Wisconsin seems to do pretty well with unknown guys that turn into elite road graders every single year. While Michigan doesn't have that same magic touch, there's proof out there that 4/5 stars don't mean as much when it comes to the big uglies
I guess a toddler can give a little perspective. Oops, todder, not toddler - - - never mind.
Again, he camped well, coaches liked what they saw. Sounds good to me. Welcome, young man!
Nothing on the front page yet at all. Not even the placeholder Hello: In-depth report post?