247 Composite Class Calculator - Expected Finish #5 class (ish)
Michigan currently sits distant third with 267.47 points.
Taking Elliot, Johnson and Weaver off expected commit list: 260.46 points.
Adding the following 10 per most probable according to this site:
McDoom
Stewart
Allen
Nordin
Gary
Hudson
Murphy
Young
Hill
Fuller
Gives 283.68 points.
IMO, we do not get Fuller, but keep Elliot: 284.15 points.
Either of the above places Michigan 2nd to LSU's 286.57 (if all other teams stay the same which they wont). Both above point totals would have placed 5th last year in recruiting class rankings.
5th place +/- 2 spots seems about right for our final projected finish.
January 25th, 2016 at 4:27 PM ^
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January 25th, 2016 at 4:34 PM ^
develops players by what, maybe a full star.
January 25th, 2016 at 4:40 PM ^
Harbaugh is so good at developing talent, why reject Swenson?
January 25th, 2016 at 4:43 PM ^
January 25th, 2016 at 4:45 PM ^
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January 25th, 2016 at 5:11 PM ^
January 25th, 2016 at 4:45 PM ^
#1 IN MY HEART THO
January 25th, 2016 at 4:47 PM ^
Les is a friggin boss. We can add 10 players incl #1 in the country and still be behind LSU if they did not add a single dude? And this with Les with walking papers waiving over his head 60 days ago.
January 25th, 2016 at 4:48 PM ^
January 25th, 2016 at 5:12 PM ^
7/11 seasons with 10+ wins, no season with less than 8 wins.
January 25th, 2016 at 4:59 PM ^
Helps when your home state has 2 5* and 19 4* and there is no other in-state competition. They may likely sweep the top 10 in their state. I think they may end up with 17 of those 21...crazy.
Also, 14/22 current commits are from LA.
LSU is one of the best jobs in the nation for this reason and this is why Les is going to continue to be on the hot seat if he doesn't make the playoffs.
http://247sports.com/Season/2016-Football/CompositeRecruitRankings?Inst…
January 25th, 2016 at 8:55 PM ^
LSU and all their talented kids couldn't keep Nick Saban as their coach.
January 25th, 2016 at 5:27 PM ^
I wondered why LSU always seems to have a top 5 class. Go look at the commits and where they are from. I think 75% of them are from the LA bayou! Les Miles doesn't even have to get on a plane to do his recruiting - not fair!
January 25th, 2016 at 5:47 PM ^
Feliepe Franks (sp?), a 5* dual threat quarterback who flipped to Florida during the coaching controversy.
January 25th, 2016 at 5:10 PM ^
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January 25th, 2016 at 6:04 PM ^
The quality of this class for us looks to be a surprise even to Harbaugh. Drevno (allegedly) said that we have a lot more high ranking guys interested in us than we thought we would.
This is a great class, but it will have only one 5-star if we can get Gary (albiet the #1 5-star).
As Harbaugh gets this thing rolling, look for years where we get multiple 5-stars. That will make the difference between us being ranked #5 and being ranked #1/2/3.
January 25th, 2016 at 6:11 PM ^
I think it will right around 5 maybe 6th.
This class is a lot about filling holes that our last two classes #20 and #37 missed. Harbaugh has only had a year to establish relationships with these kids, a lot of these 5 stars have been recruited for years.
It really doesn't matter. You just want to be in the top ten every year.
January 25th, 2016 at 6:12 PM ^
And what will our unicorn and rainbow finish look like with the DLS duo, and a couple of others.
January 25th, 2016 at 6:21 PM ^
As I recall, with only limited time to recover a class at all last year, we still managed something like #36 or #37 (I could be wrong on that, but numbers in that range stick out for some reason), which is impressive in itself really. Improving that all the way to a Top 5 recruiting class, should that turn out to be the case, is doubly impressive to me anyway.
January 25th, 2016 at 7:34 PM ^
That it's ranked better than OSU's. That hasn't happened in a while and would be our first victory over our rival that hopefully preceeds more to come on the field.
Even if that doesn't happen, the improvement in recruiting since the start of this recruiting season has been awesome and Harbaugh's classes will only get better.
January 25th, 2016 at 8:02 PM ^
January 25th, 2016 at 8:33 PM ^
If there were ever one year where I could see the coach's recruiting rankings vs the services.
January 25th, 2016 at 8:47 PM ^
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January 25th, 2016 at 8:54 PM ^
We need to go hard for Asiasi as I thought he was one of the best ready to play tight ends available. Tagaloa would be a great get too but not as much a need. Really depends on Elliott but I would make room for them both.