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UAB FB Recruiting 2022 Ranking

Interesting. We rank 4th in current CUSA (really second considering Marshall and USM won't be in conference next season) and we would rank 4th in the new AAC behind Memphis, UTSA, and Tulane.

Does this include transfers and JUCO?

(05-01-2022 07:20 AM)HiddenDragon Wrote:  UAB FB Recruiting 2022 Ranking

the 4 start transfer are not included ????

In todays portal world, these sites are going to have to start including transfers to have any accuracy on a recruiting class, along with JUCOs

I absolutely do not agree jucos and transfers should be included in a recruiting class ranking. Once you have played a season of college football your high school recruiting ranking becomes a former ranking, not a current one.

Now I am all for doing a recruiting ranking of jucos and transfers that is separate from the high school recruiting rankings.

Of course they should be included. They are part of the class.

They should also be regraded.

High school ratings are almost meaningless now for anything below 4 star. And they do too many 4 stars.

So if you think they should be regraded (I agree) but think the recruiting rankings are pretty much meaningless then what was the purpose of responding?

I'm peeping your little schtick you got going on, don't think I don't notice it.

with the portal now a large part of recruiting, and with all the attention in high school going to the top players, it changes the value of the rankings significantly. Leaving out transfers in the rankings makes it now a bad representation of quality. The services don’t put much attention high school players below 4 star, and yet for classes below the top 20 or so, their highest ranked recruits are likely to be *transfers*

5 stars are rarely poorly evaluated — the nfl draft proves this. 4 stars are a much lower accuracy. Once you get to the 3 or 2 stars, very little difference in those players. In the team ratings, one or two players can be the difference in being at the top of a conference rating or near the bottom. Increasingly those difference makers are *transfers.*


Hence is it poor reflection of actual quality of class to exclude transfers.

So that you know, I've never cared about recruiting. I think it's vastly overrated and is completely overhyped.

That said, with the introduction of the transfer portal in addition to jucos is the reason why I say do a separate recruiting ranking for these players. Like you said, they need to be regraded. Just because the player was a certain ranking coming out of high school doesn't mean they are the same player a year or two later.

(05-03-2022 07:39 AM)HiddenDragon Wrote:  So that you know, I've never cared about recruiting. I think it's vastly overrated and is completely overhyped.

That said, with the introduction of the transfer portal in addition to jucos is the reason why I say do a separate recruiting ranking for these players. Like you said, they need to be regraded. Just because the player was a certain ranking coming out of high school doesn't mean they are the same player a year or two later.

Take the time to look at the details and you will see they have been regraded. Zeno, for instance, has been regraded as a 3 star. Out of HS he was a 4 star.

So there is no right or wrong on this. I think it should be a separate ranking and some of you don't. Cool beans.