BODE (potentially fleeting)

[Dinsdale]

http://www.scout.com/Season/2018-Footba ... amRankings


Willie Taggart is a machine. I hope he can coach as well as he recruits. And that ranking doesn't count Talanoa Hufanga (5 star) and Chase Cota(4 star), who are locks.

I see USC's highest ranked recruit for 2018 so far is from... Nevada. I assume Schmick strongly disapproves of this.

[Dinsdale]

It's nice having a proactive coach for a change. Chip Kelley's recruiting consisted of paying guys money, and Helfrich (great X and O's guy) made a few phone calls.

Bellotti was decent, but the program wasn't quite as high-profile in his day.

I have a hunch Bama might land a couple of 4 and 5 star kids in the next year.

[Mikey]

Stanford isn't even in the top 50.
If things go as usual they'll pick up the pace later on and end up with a small class of pretty high quality players.

[Dinsdale]

And his hires of Leavitt and Cristobal were awesome.

[Left Seater]

I really wish more effort on a National Level was put into recruiting rankings 5 years after signing day. Granted Bama would dominate, but really the recruiting rankings that matter are 5 years later.

That said, might as well be at the top of as many of these lists as you can.

[Dinsdale]

The rankings give us something to either cheer about, or bitch about in the off-season.

In reality, how many of these 4 and 5 star guys are going to have any meaningful impact as freshmen, regardless of team? I think most teams would jump for joy if 2 of them did.

Then again, Oregon's best defensive player last year was a true freshman... and they gave up like 40 a game. Nowhere to go from there but up.

[Mikey]

The rankings give us something to either cheer about, or bitch about in the off-season.

I always crack up when the pre-season polls start coming out, and a lot of the sprotswriters can be counted on to claim that they hate pre-season polls and that they shouldn't exist because they're biased and stuff..

...and then follow with 10 paragraphs about how their rankings would look.

[Left Seater]

It is an easy page fill Mikey. Lazy is lazy.

Granted I am one that thinks polls in the first half of the season are worthless, and therefore I don't post my own much less think about rankings. But as you say the same can't be said of sportswriters.

[Dinsdale]

Other side of the coin... WTF else is a BTPCFB writer supposed to do in August? It's their job.

[buckeye_in_sc]

so now only kids who live in said state should play for said state college or private high school...do I have that right?

SO you're saying that ALL the kids on the Bishop Gorman roster are from OOS? I call bullshit...come on do a better job than that fucko...

[Left Seater]

Yeah never mind SC often has 25-30 players on the roster from outside of CA.