Rivals 2014 Class Ranking Potential - Tim Sullivan (Free)
Thought this was an interesting FREE Rivals article by former mgoblogian Tim Sullivan regarding the 2014 class and its chances for finishing with their #1 class ranking (currently 10th).
I realize ESPN is the only recruiting site everyone cares about these days, but here's the link anyway.
When they started rating all of our recruits as 4*s and crowning us with #1 class rankings. It's mostly sarcasm.
They seem to be doing an outstanding job this year. Last year Scout seemed to be the leader in recruiting prowess concerning rankings and such.
Sidenote: For what it's worth, I have Team 135 ranked #1 in my pre-season poll for the greatest college football team of all-time on this planet, or any other.
but I think ESPN has shown they've been the outlier and have been right on a few things. I know they weren't as high on Big Will and thought his best position would be OG, lo and behold, that's exactly where the Jets want him after an up-and-down career as a NT.
I thought there were one or two other M recruits they were right on too, but can't remember off the top of my head
didn't like Justin Tuner and we know how that worked out!
Good God... So many methods... So little success
ESPN's recruiting news get a lot more press than all the others combined. I'd rather be tops on ESPN than any of the other recruiting sites. The under armor all american game is by far the worst coached PoS of all the high school all american games but it gets the most press, so the best players want to go there. Right or wrong ESPN is considered "the big fish".
I could be wrong, but I always felt as if the Army All American game always boasted the better talent.
WRONG!
I thought the same thing a couple years ago, but it seems like the UA game has been catching up to the UA game.
UA > UA = UA < UA. Got it, thanks!
Ugh. That comment was made about two minutes after waking up.
The UA game seems to have been catching up with the ARMY game.
Wake up. Roll over to grab phone without leaving bed. Open MGBlog to check for commits, forum meltdown, cats.
I'm glad I'm not the only one.
Have you been spying on me?
they'll be #1 in my heart
That's Tim Sullivan at his best.
Tim is very consistent at reporting things about two hours after 247, ESPN, and Scout have done so.
Chris Balas has some insider information, but he's a complete bunghole.
I've been thinking lately that ranking recruiting classes doesn't make as much sense as grading recruiting classes. Every team has its own unique set of positional needs, depth concerns, style/transition issues, scholarship numbers, academic standards, etc. Anyone can design a point system and announce, in a vacuum, that X group of players is better than Y group of players. But if the Y group fits a team's requirements better, then that's the class you want.
Landing Hand or McDowell, and one of the plan A safety prospects (Smith or Nicholson) would make this class a solid A. Landing all three, or maybe getting two plus another sublime national talent like Fournette, would make it an A+. If that class winds up "only" finishing in the upper half of the top 10 nationally, oh well.
Hand pulls they trigger that will help bring in another top recuirt,maybe Tim Settle!
Class ranking, to a certain degree, is overrated. Michigan is an elite program and the guys who are commiting are obviously good enough to play and/or start for the Wolverines. As long as the coaches address the needs of team, I have faith in them.