Better times coming?
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love your enthusiasm but what service are you using? Your own? Rivals shows 2015 with zero 4 star, 8 3-star, 7 2-star and a no-star. And rated the worst class in the conference.
what in the he!! does class weighting mean? All I know is we consistently have a lot of guys with no other offers, our classes consistently rank in the bottom two in the conference and your star summary is completely inaccurate. Not sure where any of this is coming from. Feel like it is bizarro time on CF.
I thought the whole thing was a poor post. You claim that our front 7 on defense and entire o line is so far away from big 12 caliber it's not even funny, but "a good staff" would have us winning 8 games. That's 12 of 22 starters.
ESPN. It's in the first line of my post you copied. It's this sports outfit based in Bristol, CT. They do television, radio, stuff like that.
Your name must refer to your IQ. Dumbing it down a little further, weighting is the overall number of stars in each class relative to the total number of commitments.
Got it. Unfortunately they don't do much with recruiting. But if your weighted average or whatever makes you feel better, you just stick with it.
Lol, ESPN doesn't do much with recruiting. That might be the dumbest thing I've read on here. Yeah, it sucks when basic facts cloud ignorance.
I'd listen to it being called "the worst recruiting service". That's an opinion. I'd disagree with that opinion. Saying they "don't do much" is asinine and wrong.
I don't know what Pollard said and I suspect you don't either, but I think Rhoads gets another year if he gets to 5 wins. That would be major improvement and make it awfully hard to pull the plug given the cost of doing so. And we would be trending again!!!
Four wins might do the trick as well if we are not getting routinely depantsed like we did this year. Then we would be "just X plays away from Y wins!!!" like we hear every year.
I would compare it to having two options for where to go to get health advice.
The first is your doctor. Much like Rivals and, to a lesser degree, Scout and 247 with recruiting, your doctor's livelihood is dependent on staying current, being educated, keeping up on the latest on all things medical. That's what they do. Additionally, they have personal interest in you, run tests on you and develop a plan just for you. Just like Rivals actually scouts and tests each individual player.
The second option is to look on your MSN or other home page for this year's "what to do in 2015 to improve your health" article. Before you look, I can tell you it will have some nice little advice like exercise more and eat better. Maybe read a book and put on sunscreen. Like the ESPN recruiting articles, it is there simply to draw page hits. ESPN does no actual scouting or testing of recruits. There is no regard to high school guys who may be making a move upward or downward. I just looked and literally did not find a 2-star in the entire Big 12 on the ESPN site. So if you commit to a Power 5 conference, you're a 3-star. That's the service you are paying for as an "insider".
All I know is that our recruiting class is ranked 11th among the B12 teams plus Iowa on every service I looked at, including what anyone but you would consider the big 3 sites. The 10 ahead of us are 10 of our 12 games for the foreseeable future.
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I have a VIP subscription over at 247 and I believe they have the best evaluators and they also have the composite rankings that take into account the four major recruiting services. Iowa State's highest rated recruit is juco DT Demond Tucker and he is a high 3 star. According to composite rankings, Iowa State has 11 3* and 5 2* for the #69 class in the country.
QB Dominic DeLira could be one to watch. He has lit it up down in Texas and 247 called him a Big 12 sleeper recruit to watch. This is what 247 evaluator Kevin Flaherty had to say about him:
"The Cyclones had a competition for the quarterback spot in their class, and DeLira went up to camp and beat back all comers. The 6-foot-1 quarterback displayed a strong and accurate arm and could wind up being a steal for the kind of offense new offensive coordinator Mark Mangino wants to run. DeLira is the No. 71 quarterback in the Composite rankings."
Sorry if any of this had been posted already, didn't have time to look through all the previous posts.
QB Dominic DeLira could be one to watch. He has lit it up down in Texas and 247 called him a Big 12 sleeper recruit to watch. This is what 247 evaluator Kevin Flaherty had to say about him:
"The Cyclones had a competition for the quarterback spot in their class, and DeLira went up to camp and beat back all comers. The 6-foot-1 quarterback displayed a strong and accurate arm and could wind up being a steal for the kind of offense new offensive coordinator Mark Mangino wants to run. DeLira is the No. 71 quarterback in the Composite rankings."
Sorry if any of this had been posted already, didn't have time to look through all the previous posts.
That would be average (which we actually do much better in if you actually take the time to do a pure average relative our confrench peers). A weighe'd average gIves more weight to positions and players likely to makeither a bigger impact. I have never understood exactly how they do this but in short a 5 star questions means more than a 5 star TE etc.
Really what it comes down to is we have 5 total wins over the last 2 years. If that correlates to ESPN saying we have great recruiting than I will disagree with ESPN.
Numbers and statistics and all that crap can be used to measure or hide many, many things. But as noted above we have 5 total wins over 2 years. We were just a few plays away from being a 7 win team and just a few plays away from going winless.
