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What is most important to you in a recruit?

Notsince1985

Notsince1985

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Ranking (national/state/position)
What schools they hold offers from
Highlight film
What Pete says

I ask, because in each thread, or when we gain a recruit, or lose one, we have posters who are upset because he's a 3 star, or defend him because he's a 3 star, but has offers from FSU, UF, Clemson, etc., or he's a 3 star, but Pete likes him, or he's a 3 star, but looks like a stud on film, or etc.

So, as someone who doesn't really follow recruiting that closely, and not really until January, what say you fine gentlemen?
 
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Notsince1985 said:
Stars
Ranking (national/state/position)
What schools they hold offers from
Highlight film
What Pete says

I ask, because in each thread, or when we gain a recruit, or lose one, we have posters who are upset because he's a 3 star, or defend him because he's a 3 star, but has offers from FSU, UF, Clemson, etc., or he's a 3 star, but Pete likes him, or he's a 3 star, but looks like a stud on film, or etc.

So, as someone who doesn't really follow recruiting that closely, and not really until January, what say you fine gentlemen?
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Good question.

Personally:

Offer list - only problem is it's often hard to know if offers listed are legit
Highlights
Consensus on board
Stars/Ranking
What Pete says - no disrespect to Pete
 
1. Highlight film. Even with just a few clips you can see how much explosiveness a kid has (first thing i look for). Sometimes a kid will pop off the tape and you really don't need to see any thing more. Also can give you a good indication of their competition and size.

2. What schools they hold offers from is key to. If they don't hold offers from a feeder or home town school, this is usually a red flag. Either they're garbage, or there's some other issues going on (grades, psycho, etc.) that they know about that others don't or will soon discover.
 
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1. Offers
2. Competition
3. Highlights
4. Stars/Rankings
5. blackvern's and James Jackson's Brother's expertise and opinions


Gotta take the board's analysis with a grain of salt. I feel people read the first 5 posts on a thread and just start running a long with things that are said. For example "Dingle has character or grade issues" LMAO - I think this was literally made up a couple days ago. Or the dudes throwing out the typical corny **** like "he a dog", "he a savage"...
 
If by what Pete says you mean his inside information on what our coaches think, then that is #1 for me. If you mean Pete's actual opinion on if the player is a dawg or not, than it's definitely last.
 
1) Legit offers

Not an offer from 2 years ago but the school doesn't contact anymore. Legit offers with big schools at his doorstep.

2) Local coaches' opinions of a kid.
 
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Depends on the position of the recruit. Offers is a good place to start even though some offers aren't really "offers". (Brini for example). Highlights are the next way to go but you still can't fully rely on them because they are highlights.. I had a nice highlight tape back in the day and I wasn't very good. You have to consider the competition when you're watching it. Then, I look opinions from people that have seen the kid play as they have a good vibe.

The reason I bought into Gaynor was his highlights and I know the competition wasn't the best, but he had 10 minutes of putting dudes on their ***.. not much more you can ask for. Also like N'kosi, I know he's got all the tools in the world and lights it up in 7 on 7 and like I said, sometimes highlight film doesn't tell the whole story but when you have 15 minutes of perfection I'll buy into it. The guys that have 3-4 minutes of great plays kind of raise a red flag that maybe they don't always show up.
 
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What I think is important is that a recruit wants to be a Hurricane (first and far most), His Film, Then his National Ranking. The new recruit wants it NOW... He feels the offer from the school with the better record and is currently basking in the lime light... is the best offer. If the bag man really exist then I'm certain that will have an influence on a recruits choice. Auburn, Alabama, UF and UGA had Shaq's attention they didn't land him NOT because they suck at recruiting... they didn't get him because he wanted to play for the University of Miami. I think Star Ratings is a bit over rated as well ... case in Point RJ Mac, Ken Norton and Mike Pinkney were not highly rated but I argue they are among the best of their peers at their respective positions... If a recruit musters a lot of drama in his recruitment ... he will bring it into the locker room once on campus. All money ain't good money. The biggest aid in landing the pretentious recruit is Winning.
 
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Notsince1985 said:
Stars
Ranking (national/state/position)
What schools they hold offers from
Highlight film
What Pete says

I ask, because in each thread, or when we gain a recruit, or lose one, we have posters who are upset because he's a 3 star, or defend him because he's a 3 star, but has offers from FSU, UF, Clemson, etc., or he's a 3 star, but Pete likes him, or he's a 3 star, but looks like a stud on film, or etc.

So, as someone who doesn't really follow recruiting that closely, and not really until January, what say you fine gentlemen?
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supersaiyanshel said:
1. Highlight film. Even with just a few clips you can see how much explosiveness a kid has (first thing i look for). Sometimes a kid will pop off the tape and you really don't need to see any thing more. Also can give you a good indication of their competition and size.

2. What schools they hold offers from is key to. If they don't hold offers from a feeder or home town school, this is usually a red flag. Either they're garbage, or there's some other issues going on (grades, psycho, etc.) that they know about that others don't or will soon discover.
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Not that I disagree with you but...here's the grey area with both of those...

1. He may pop off the screen athletically, but it's a HIGHLIGHT tape. There's kids out there who show great ability for a few snaps a game but are irrelevant and make zero impact for the rest. However, I'm aware of the fact that college coaches just wanna see ability and they believe that they can coach up any kid who has it.

2. I don't think you can apply this rule to South FLA kids. Just because a South FLA kid doesn't hold offers from UF, FSU, UM, etc...doesn't mean he's not a stud. There's 203,320,012 Division-1 recruits in FLA. Not all of them will receive offers from the likes of UF/FSU, especially South FLA kids, as UF/FSU usually only come down here for the elite ones. There's South FLA kids who didn't receive offers from UF/FSU who could easily play at Miami and help us greatly. A kid may not have offers from UF/FSU but he'll have offers from Clemson, Oklahoma, Nebraska, Ohio State, Michigan, etc. (other top-25 teams) That kid can likely help Miami.

Now, if a kid doesn't have any offers from top-25 schools then I'd consider it a red flag. Golden was a huge fan of signing kids who's offer list had Akron, Western Michigan, etc.
 
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