EDIT: Greg Gaines Is A Cyclone!
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They list us as having 18 wide receivers plus one commit? That's seems a bit high.
Just looked at 247 that showed our top 25 recruits of all time. 16/25 have been recruited by this staff. That is amazing.
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Back when USC was relevant. They have a MONSTER safety who just destroyed people. Imagine a 6'4" 225# Isheem Young
I was thinking Troy Polamalu... But I suppose you were talking about his size too.
Just laughable that 247 lists this for our WR room. Those seniors graduated in 2019. J Martin transfered out. Who TF is P Rickert, B Coberley? Aidan Bitter is listed twice.. Jeramiah Cooper is a safety commit for 2022.. Not a WR
Parker Rickert and Beau Coberley. Both play special teams. Rickert is actually on scholarship now. I think Coberley is still a walk-on but his dad works for ISU.
Vividly remember watching that hit live on TV and feeling ill about it.
Also a Big 10 team getting boat-raced in the Rose Bowl....imagine that.
Hard to say where the ranking would go. Ranking is a product of # of commits and rating of commits. Essex is just barely below the current average rating of 0.8554, Gaines is a 4 star and would raise the average.
Edit: if they both commit our average recruit rating would go from 0.8554 to 0.8578.
Adding Gaines, Essex and Adams would give ISU 17 commits and a team score of 184.68.
That would rank #20, bumping Ok State down, and 1 below Baylor.
They won't end up there though. If you look through the teams in the 20-40 range, there are quite a few that have fewer than 17 commits. Some of those teams will end up passing ISU.
Here is my logic.
We are normally around 50. If we end up around 25, that means our talent is 2x as good.
CMC gets us to Top 10 with the classes in the 50's, we should camp around top 4-5 (2x as good) with classes in the 25 range.
I have thought through this logic pretty thoroughly and believe it is bullet proof.
My logic is that if this staff can field this kind of team with "worse" recruiting classes, then they should be able to spot the best players just as well out of the next tier of recruits too.
It adds up. This isn't that covid voodoo science. (This is a joke. Not a political statement.)
