reggie grimes was 6'4 250, played DE and had 25 total tackles his sr year while playing most of the games for less than 2 tackles per game. Anybody who saw him play in person came to the same conclusion as he was pushed back all year by smaller OTs and seldom wreaked havoc. Now he may turn into something, but he flat out was given a ranking based off how he looked in shorts and evaluators admitted as much. Nothing was based off on field plays and production. What id like to see is how many rwood and brentwood kids will have played or play D1 in last year or 2 and in next 2 years and make an impact. Over a 4-5 years span, there may be 2 ravenwood kids to play sec level D1 and make some plays. Colson should. Im cool with getting whoever, but Colson is really the only rwood miss imo and his family had this in the bag, literally, for awhile and moving back north.
Honestly if we are pulling top 2 and 3 kids from AL, FL, GA, NC,MD, etc. I really don't care if we miss out on some of our top talent. Not saying we shouldn't try or want kids to stay home but when your pulling kids like Terrence Lewis and Dylan Brooks, makes the sting of losing in state kids not hurt as much. Just have to keep doing it year in and out though.
Exactly! As long as we get the D. Barnett's and E. Gray's out of the state I'm all good with missing on a few instate kids.
His film is some of the worst you will see for a highly rated player. And for Barton Simmons to admit his rating had nothing to do with what he did on the field as #1 player in the state is silly.
Obviously you want to keep those relationships strong, or else you have nothing to fall back on if you start missing out on the regional or national recruits. But yeah, if you’re hitting out of state, you certainly don’t have to bat 1.000 in-state.
Yeah we just need to operate under the assumption that like 50% of this current class won't be in it. That's just how April/May commitments go sometimes.