2022 Worthless Recruiting Thread

[ELA]

Arizona?

[Cincydawg]

I wonder how much NIL has shaken up these rankings.

Smart was saying he couldn't promise any NIL, it wasn't his affair, outwardly.

[Temp430]

Did I heard the incoming Texas A&M recruits had $30 million in NIL income?

[Honestbuckeye]

Did I heard the incoming Texas A&M recruits had $30 million in NIL income?

https://mobile.twitter.com/espncfb/status/1488996750392279042?s=21

[Gigem]

Great recruiting haul for A&M. I guess we will soon see what Jimbo can do with them. 

Honestly recruiting hasn’t ever really been a problem for us. We’ve never been out of the top 25 since the rankings have been around but we’ve finished out of the top 25 more than half the time or worse. We never recruited worse than Miss State, Arkansas, Texas Tech, Missouri, etc. Heck we even out recruited OU and Texas a few years. 

[Cincydawg]

I bet if we check the recruiting rankings of the NCs in the playoff era, and perhaps before, they'd all be top five.  Maybe Auburn was not that one year.

Necessary but not sufficient.  You need the right mix of talent in the right year.  This past season was unusual in that a highly recruited QB was not at the helm.  I think IN GENERAL you need a five star at QB to win an NC, a six star helps.

[Temp430]

https://mobile.twitter.com/espncfb/status/1488996750392279042?s=21

Ok. I didn’t hear Jimbo say how much NIL income his incoming class had.  More than $30 million?

[Cincydawg]

In the old days, players would get summer "jobs" at some local dealership where they showed up once and were told they didn't need to show up any more.  Obviously this was illegal, under the rules, but unenforceable really.  Some cat with big money who was a big fan would fund this easily enough and the players would get walking around money for doing nothing.

Now, same cat can pay NIL funds and get some benefit, so he can pay a bit more.  Ten thousand is a lot of money to a college kid, usually.  And it's legal.

[OrangeAfroMan]

A&M getting the best class ever is bizarre.  So yes, something unique happened to cause it.  But the difference now is that whatever it was, it's likely not against the rules anymore.  

But no, it's not ho-hum.  

[OrangeAfroMan]

btw, 15 of the 16 SEC teams (w/ OU, UTA) had Top 26 classes.  
It's obscene.  

If the cream of the P5 does ever break off and do their own thing, say 20 of them or so, over half of those will be SEC schools.

[Gigem]

A&M getting the best class ever is bizarre.  So yes, something unique happened to cause it.  But the difference now is that whatever it was, it's likely not against the rules anymore. 

But no, it's not ho-hum. 

I find your lack of faith disturbing. 

[FearlessF]

well, there has got to be more ways to cheat than simply paying players

[Cincydawg]

Player compensation has to be the most effective way to "cheat", and now we see legal avenues to doing this.  NIL is a massive hole in the fabric of regulation, not that the regulations were all that effective, but there was a threat you'd get caught.

[Cincydawg]

At minimum, I think every NIL deal should be made public, team by team.