Will healy has magically signed the "number 1" fcs recruiting class yet again and is using it to his advantage on the recruiting trail. While he is a great recruiter, it is quite obvious that they are throwing players a ranking just to get the austin peay team ranking to number 1. Is it wrong for his contact/s at 247 to manufacture these rankings on his behalf in an obvious attempt to give him an advantage?
To want something requires absolutely nothing. To will something requires sacrifice. That is the vision I have for Mocs football. A group that will have a tireless will to compete. When they play that way national championships are to be expected. That's our goal.
Tom Arth
Trying to give a ****......can't. Star systems are beyond stupid...like a kid taking an offer to AP because "we have the top recruits", but are beyond terrible on the field.
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When you're on a 27 game losing streak and have lost 45 of your last 46, you need all that you can get. It's kind of like when the worst NFL team gets the #1 pick, except that even the browns don't suck this much for this long. Just drop the program. You're making Rhode Island look like the Patriots.
Well they aren't going to drop the program. And they are actually are improving their talent level by leaps and bounds and one of the ways they are doing it is by misrepresenting the caliber of players that they have gotten in the past and that they have committed to them.Originally Posted by RootinFerDukes
To want something requires absolutely nothing. To will something requires sacrifice. That is the vision I have for Mocs football. A group that will have a tireless will to compete. When they play that way national championships are to be expected. That's our goal.
Tom Arth
While it is BS, particularly at this level. It is a selling point that will healy has been using for a few years now. I'm not sure it didn't help him land the austin peay job.
To want something requires absolutely nothing. To will something requires sacrifice. That is the vision I have for Mocs football. A group that will have a tireless will to compete. When they play that way national championships are to be expected. That's our goal.
Tom Arth
Nobody cares about that. NW State signed a couple of "No. 1" classes using Rivals ratings and it got their last two head coaches fired.
You don't know what the hell you are talking about. These recru ing websites may not be legitimate or accurate. But to say no one cares is idiotic. They are making millions of dollars. The fact that they aren't making any on fcs football is precisely why they feel they can just go in and give every one of their friends 25 signees a star ranking and no one will care. These players are obsessed with their ranking, they are going to camps just to improve that. It is an advantage, an unfair advantage, to be able to go in and say " we signed the number 1 recruiting class in the nation last year just look it up on 247."
To want something requires absolutely nothing. To will something requires sacrifice. That is the vision I have for Mocs football. A group that will have a tireless will to compete. When they play that way national championships are to be expected. That's our goal.
Tom Arth
Obviously it's got your panties in a wad, that's why you posted, but if you truly believe it's a manufactured ranking due to a coaches relationship with 247, it'll show up on the field in due time. At the end of the day, the usual suspects will continue recruiting unrated or lowly rated players and will continue to be in the mix for championships. We'll see where APSU is in a couple of years. If they ascend to the top of the OVC, your concerns will have been validated ... if not, it'll be another coach killer ranking.
Most good coaches don't care what the players star rating is. That is unless you are called Alabama or Ohio State, even lower P5/ upper G5 schools care more about how the recruits play. It doesn't take that much to find a bunch of 2 and 3 stars without any D1 offers and then get them on to a D1 team. There is a reason that these recruits aren't getting attention- most probably they haven't been as good as thought, or parents spend a lot of money on camps getting their name out. NDSU certainly doesn't care about star ratings, look at Carson Wentz, Andrew Bonnet, and CJ Smith all on NFL rosters from the 2015 class, I think they were all unrated.
What does this matter? No player or coach is coming to Austin Peay simply because he supposedly signed the top FCS class on 247 Sports. These websites don't carry that type of weight. Most of the best players at the G5 and FCS level have been unranked or 2-star players.
This is nothing to worry about. Chattanooga had the top class by Rivals 2-3 times if I remember correctly and while they have been good they have never dethroned NDSU or able to do what JMU did. It is a meaningless and worthless accomplishment. Ignoring the stars would make your life easier and better. They are just for hype to make the All-America games and recruiting classes look better but once the players sign those stars have zero purpose or relevance.
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