Alabama Wins the Mythical Recruiting National Championship
by Year2 on Feb 1, 2012 7:56 PM EST
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PrintAlabama came into the day on top of all of the recruiting rankings, and it finished it still on top of three of them. So, we can safely say that Alabama is your Mythical Recruiting National Champion once again. Here are how all the conference's teams ended up in the four major rankings as of 7:30 NSD evening.
Remember that Rivals only publishes its top 50 and ESPN only does a top 25. The numbers in parenthesis are the teams' ranks in the average player ranking standings.
| Team | Rivals | Scout | 247 | ESPN | Average Overall Rank |
| Alabama | 1 (3) | 2 (3) | 1 (1) | 1 | 1.25 |
| Florida | 3 (6) | 5 (6) | 4 (8) | 4 | 4.00 |
| Georgia | 11 (12) | 13 (8) | 6 (6) | 5 | 10.75 |
| LSU | 16 (18) | 7 (12) | 12 (9) | 12 | 11.75 |
| Auburn | 12 (8) | 14 (10) | 17 (14) | 17 | 14.75 |
| Texas A&M | 15 (14) | 17 (16) | 13 (12) | 15 | 14.75 |
| South Carolina | 18 (22) | 12 (17) | 15 (17) | 16 | 15.25 |
| Tennessee | 17 (15) | 24 (20) | 19 (19) | 22 | 20.50 |
| Missouri | 32 (27) | 34 (18) | 31 (23) | 20 | 29.25 |
| Miss State | 30 (34) | 18 (25) | 25 (32) | - | 24.33 |
| Arkansas | 31 (33) | 21 (28) | 27 21) | - | 26.33 |
| Vanderbilt | 29 (25) | 44 (39) | 49 (46) | - | 40.67 |
| Ole Miss | 44 (43) | 63 (43) | 44 (43) | - | 50.33 |
| Kentucky | - | 31 (50) | 53 (46) | - | 42.00 |
These could change as a few more players decide what they want to do. Highly rated WR Stefon Diggs is waiting for a while to make his final decision, and he's considering Auburn and Florida among others. Rivals also isn't counting Josh Harvey-Clemons as a part of Georgia's class yet. He committed to UGA earlier today and has told media he still is a Bulldog, but his grandfather is apparently nowhere to be found at the moment. He needs his grandfather to sign the NLI as that's who his legal guardian is.
Note: I've updated the Rivals ranks as Harvey-Clemons's NLI finally made it to Georgia on the morning of 2/2. Auburn and Texas A&M fell one spot in the overall standings and A&M and Tennessee fell one spot in the average rankings as a result of Georgia leap-frogging them.
For now though, this is where they all stack up. Congrats to all.
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Aside from last year when Muschamp took a small-ish class, Florida’s been in the top five consistently. Attrition and coaching instability are why the Gators have fallen off so much.
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Yes, but you have to wonder about the last two years before Boom. The recruiting rankings didn't translate to good field play.
I believe once Muschamp gets another year of recruiting under his belt you will be at the top of the east again.
Two years before Boom, Florida went 13-1. It wasn’t a pretty 13-1 and it was not as good as the previous 13-1, but that’s still a great year.
In 2010, everything fell apart thanks to the coaching issues. Meyer wasn’t as hands-on, so there was a leadership vacuum at the top. Many of the influential coaches from the previous string of success — Mullen, Strong, Mattison, Gonzales, Holliday, Bedford — were gone as well. The players might have been less effective, but I’d blame it as much on coaching turnover and weak leadership than anything.
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I think 2010 looks different if not for Rainey's dumb text
The Gators lost close to LSU and Mississippi State during his suspension. I don’t think the Tigers are in position to make that ridiculous bounce-pass fake-punt if Rainey played. Don’t know if he would’ve swung the Miss State game (Rainey wasn’t a TD guy, and UF’s problem was scoring, not ball movement in that game).
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by Chekhov's Spread Gun Option on Feb 2, 2012 1:34 PM EST up reply actions
Oh, no. Florida had a great year that year. I was speaking of the recruits that signed that year and their field of play since.
Yes. Florida kicked ass that year. But a year or two later due to attrition and others not panning out due to the coaching issue I would have thought that the results would have been better based on the recruiting rankings.
DISCLAIMER: I am super-ignorant about all this recruiting ranking stuff, and think the specific ranking numbers are largely irrelevant...
… but my competitive nature simply compels me to ask how Georgia can be ranked in the top 6 by two of the services and outside the top 12 by the other two, including damn near outside the top 20 by Rivals?
IT’S A CONSPEERACY, PAAAAAWWWWWWLLLLLL. IMMA HANG UP AND LISSEN.
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I think the answer is clear,
Rivals is run by yankees.
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It did win most accurate recruiting site this one time on the internet, though
(that was true: this is also true. That ranking only covered 2004-2007 or something like that, and other than proving that ESPN was really bad at predicting recruits during that period, it didn’t separate the services much at all).
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by Chekhov's Spread Gun Option on Feb 2, 2012 8:32 AM EST up reply actions
Your right. They are irrelevant if your product on the field doesn't correlate with the class rankings you sign.
And we all know that the star rating is based on potential and nothing else. Some three star athletes end up better than five star athletes.
Not so subtle unprovoked jab at Georgia by a Bama fan
Color me surprised…
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Color you defensive. It wasn't a jab. Just a confirmation of what he said.
Some schools have top 10 recruits and win it all while some schools have top 5 classes and only have a 7 or 8 win season(s).
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