Welcome Guest! Create an Account login email: password: remember me: BASKETBALLFOOTBALLMESSAGE BOARDCHATLINKS site searchwhere to watchcontact usabout usadvertise with ushelp Message Board BobcatAttack.com Message Board Ohio Football Recruiting Topic:  If Recruiting rankings actually were accurate... Topic:  If Recruiting rankings actually were accurate... Author Message L.C. General User Member Since: 8/31/2005 Location: United States Post Count: 10,470 Status: Offline     If Recruiting rankings actually were accurate...    Posted: 7/26/2019 9:37:45 PM  Based strictly on the Recruiting ranking points for the time period 2015-19, the projected order of finish this year would be: 1. WMU 2. Toledo 3. Miami 4. NIU 5. BG 6. CMU 7. Ball State 8. Ohio 9. EMU 10. Buffalo 11. Kent 12. Akron The top 4 teams are all projected to do well, but so are teams rated 8-10. The recruiting rankings aren't totally wrong, but neither are they perfect. It's always important to remember that the recruiting services put a lot more emphasis on accuracy of the 4 and 5 star players, and the upper 3 star players than they do for the lower 3 star and the 2 star players. The fans of teams like Alabama, Clemson, and Ohio State are the ones that subscribe to the services, not the fans from the MAC, so they focus their efforts on the very best players. Last Edited: 7/27/2019 10:33:23 AM by L.C. “We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.” ― Epictetus Back to Top Buck.Cat General User Member Since: 12/21/2017 Post Count: 365 Status: Offline     RE: If Recruiting rankings actually were accurate...    Posted: 7/27/2019 8:23:40 AM  L.C. wrote: The projected order of finish this year would be: 1. WMU 2. Toledo 3. Miami 4. NIU 5. BG 6. CMU 7. Ball State 8. Ohio 9. EMU 10. Buffalo 11. Kent 12. Akron The top 4 teams are all projected to do well, but so are teams rated 8-10. The recruiting rankings aren't totally wrong, but neither are they perfect. It's always important to remember that the recruiting services put a lot more emphasis on accuracy of the 4 and 5 star players, and the upper 3 star players than they do for the lower 3 star and the 2 star players. The fans of teams like Alabama, Clemson, and Ohio State are the ones that subscribe to the services, not the fans from the MAC, so they focus their efforts on the very best players. In your opinion, which in this case is inaccurate and baseless. Fans from all the conferences subscribe, schools from a conference like the SEC just have more fans compared to the MAC. As far as rankings last year, OU was probably the 4th or 5th best team in the MAC and in the bottom 100 in the nation and their recruiting reflects it. Back to Top Doc Bobcat General User Member Since: 12/20/2004 Post Count: 4,241 Status: Offline     RE: If Recruiting rankings actually were accurate...    Posted: 7/27/2019 8:51:37 AM  One of the things that they use is number of signings. We will have a small but impactful class. Back to Top L.C. General User Member Since: 8/31/2005 Location: United States Post Count: 10,470 Status: Offline     RE: If Recruiting rankings actually were accurate...    Posted: 7/27/2019 9:18:37 AM  Buck.Cat wrote: ...Fans from all the conferences subscribe, schools from a conference like the SEC just have more fans compared to the MAC... You are correct about what I meant to say. I did not mean to say that no fans at all subscribe from the MAC. I meant that the vast majority of their subscriber base is from P5 Conferences, which is why the vast majority of their coverage goes to P5 recruiting. Buck.Cat wrote: ...As far as rankings last year, OU was probably the 4th or 5th best team in the MAC and in the bottom 100 in the nation and their recruiting reflects it. What ratings are you using? I did a search, and here are a few random ratings Sagarin had Ohio #55 in the country, #1 in the MAC https://www.usatoday.com/sports/ncaaf/sagarin / Massey had Ohio #64 in the country, #1 in the MAC https://www.masseyratings.com/cf/compare.htm herosports had Ohio #61 in the country, 2d to NIU https://herosports.com/college-football/college-football-... Doc Bobcat wrote: One of the things that they use is number of signings. We will have a small but impactful class. Correct, and not all schools give out the same number of scholarships. Schools that do a lot of walkons give less. Schools that recruit a lot of JUCO players show more recruits. Schools that take a lot of transfers tend to show less because incoming transfers often don't show at all. Here are the numbers of scholarships given out by each MAC school over from 2015-19: EMU 125 (They do a high number of JUCO players, so you expect a high number) Miami, NIU 114 WMU 112 Ball St 110 Toledo 107 Ohio 106 BG 100 Kent 99 CMU 98 Buffalo 95 Akron 80 (This seems way low, but partly is low due to a high number of transfers) Last Edited: 7/27/2019 10:07:08 AM by L.C. “We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.” ― Epictetus Back to Top Showing Replies:   1 - 4  of 4 Posts Jump to Page:   1 View Other 'Ohio Football Recruiting' Topics                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               WHO'S ONLINE There are 333 Active Visitors on BobcatAttack.com 332 Guests 1 Registered User:   BobcatCrew There are no other users looking at this page.

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