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Recruiting Against Our CUSA Rivals

Posted: Mon Jul 25, 2011 2:42 pm
by ponyboy
We have:
One 5.8 four star commit
One 5.7 three star
Two 5.6 three stars
One 5.5 three star

Tulsa
Six 5.5 three stars

UCF (Can this be right? I thought they were in on a few four stars and even were getting bites from a five star...)
Only one 5.5 three star. No other commits

Houston
Three 5.6 three stars
Four 5.5 three stars

Re: Recruiting Against Our CUSA Rivals

Posted: Tue Jul 26, 2011 11:34 am
by ponyboy
Bump. What happened to UCF? Did I dream that they were knocking 'em dead in recruiting?

Re: Recruiting Against Our CUSA Rivals

Posted: Tue Jul 26, 2011 11:50 am
by NickSMU17
Defn have lost some guys...and we have picked it up a bit...

Re: Recruiting Against Our CUSA Rivals

Posted: Tue Jul 26, 2011 1:52 pm
by lwjr
ponyboy wrote:We have:
One 5.8 four star commit
One 5.7 three star
Two 5.6 three stars
One 5.5 three star

Tulsa
Six 5.5 three stars

UCF (Can this be right? I thought they were in on a few four stars and even were getting bites from a five star...)

Only one 5.5 three star. No other commits


Houston
Three 5.6 three stars
Four 5.5 three stars
Ponyboy
I'm confused, my wife will tell you this is not a great surprise, what does the numbers listed before the star rating mean, 5.8, 5.7 etc...

Re: Recruiting Against Our CUSA Rivals

Posted: Tue Jul 26, 2011 2:19 pm
by Cadillac
I guess it's a by-product of fishing in a different pond, but we haven't had a lot of head-to-head action with our conference mates. In fact, the only head to head matchup that I found in C-USA west, was Colin Lagasse choosing SMU over an offer from Rice.

-CoS

Re: Recruiting Against Our CUSA Rivals

Posted: Tue Jul 26, 2011 2:31 pm
by ponyboy
lwjr wrote:I'm confused, my wife will tell you this is not a great surprise, what does the numbers listed before the star rating mean, 5.8, 5.7 etc...
The Rivals ranking system ranks prospects on a numerical scale from 6.1-4.9.

6.1 Franchise Player; considered one of the elite prospects in the country, generally among the nation's top 25 players overall; deemed to have excellent pro potential; high-major prospect

6.0-5.8 All-American Candidate; high-major prospect; considered one of the nation's top 300 prospects; deemed to have pro potential and ability to make an impact on college team

5.7-5.5 All-Region Selection; considered among the region's top prospects and among the top 750 or so prospects in the country; high-to-mid-major prospect; deemed to have pro potential and ability to make an impact on college team

5.4-5.0 Division I prospect; considered a mid-major prospect; deemed to have limited pro potential but definite Division I prospect; may be more of a role player

4.9 Sleeper; no Rivals.com expert knew much, if anything, about this player; a prospect that only a college coach really knew about

Re: Recruiting Against Our CUSA Rivals

Posted: Tue Jul 26, 2011 2:46 pm
by lwjr
ponyboy wrote:
lwjr wrote:I'm confused, my wife will tell you this is not a great surprise, what does the numbers listed before the star rating mean, 5.8, 5.7 etc...
The Rivals ranking system ranks prospects on a numerical scale from 6.1-4.9.

6.1 Franchise Player; considered one of the elite prospects in the country, generally among the nation's top 25 players overall; deemed to have excellent pro potential; high-major prospect

6.0-5.8 All-American Candidate; high-major prospect; considered one of the nation's top 300 prospects; deemed to have pro potential and ability to make an impact on college team

5.7-5.5 All-Region Selection; considered among the region's top prospects and among the top 750 or so prospects in the country; high-to-mid-major prospect; deemed to have pro potential and ability to make an impact on college team

5.4-5.0 Division I prospect; considered a mid-major prospect; deemed to have limited pro potential but definite Division I prospect; may be more of a role player

4.9 Sleeper; no Rivals.com expert knew much, if anything, about this player; a prospect that only a college coach really knew about
Thanks....