Per Rivals team rankings for this 2024 class of recruits...
No team, to my way of thinking, recruited at a Tier One level, where teams like Oklahoma and Texas reside, as both teams were ranked in the Top 10 and are almost always in that Tier...
Here is how the rest of the Big 12 ended up after yesterday's early signing period...
#23 - Texas Tech - class of 21 with one five-star and four, four-star players, for a player average of 3.29
(the NIL money in Lubbock is looking big these days, it looks like)
#31 - UCF - 18 recruits - seven four-star - player average = 3.39
#36 - TCU - 20 recruits - five four-star - player = 3.15
#41 - W Virginia - 22 recruits - one four-star - player = 2.82
#45 - AU - 19 recruits - two four-star - player = 3.00
#46 - BYU - 24 recruits - three four-star - player = 2.88
#48 - Kansas - 17 recruits - four, four-star - player = 3.24
# 51 - Cincy - 21 - no four star - player = 2.86
(TIE)
#51 - Iowa St - 22 - no four star - player = 2.86
#54 - ASU - 18 - two four-star - player = 3.06
#56 - Oklahoma St - 17 - no four star - player = 2.94
#57 - Utah - 15 - three four-star - player = 2.93
#60 - K-State - 16 - one four star - player = 2.94
#67 - Colorado - 8 - one five star and three four-star - player = 3.63
#68 - Baylor - 14 - no four star - player = 2.86
#76 - Houston - 17 - two four-star - player = 2.41
Please remember that it's a numbers game and that Rivals takes a player rating of say 5.5 for a three star that equals 16.5 points...
A three-star 5.6 would get a score of 16.8 (3 X 5.6) and a 5.8 four-star would get a 23.2 score (4 X 5.8)...
And, so on, and I think I have their methodology figured out correctly...
Then you add all those player scores up to get the team score and that's how they end up ranking each team...
Obviously, teams like Bama, Georgia, Texas, etc that have a lot of four and some five star players are going to get much higher team scores as a result...
For instance, a five-star, 6.1 rated player, will earn 30.5 points for their team, while a 5.4 two-star player will only earn a team 10.8 points...big difference, right..??
On the heels of our last regime, after the NCAA investigation was started, our recruiting efforts looked like what has happened with Oregon St right now that finished with 13 recruits for a #96 team ranking by Rivals...
Thankfully, those days appear behind us now under Dilly and his staff and we aren't too far behind any teams, for the most part, in the Big 12...
Probably in the middle somewhere but close enough to all the other teams to not be that far behind any other program moving forward...
Plus, I think Dilly and his staff will turn out to be top of the line recruiters in the Big 12 moving forward...
At least, I sure hope so and I am counting on that to happen...Go Dilly and Go Devils!!!
No team, to my way of thinking, recruited at a Tier One level, where teams like Oklahoma and Texas reside, as both teams were ranked in the Top 10 and are almost always in that Tier...
Here is how the rest of the Big 12 ended up after yesterday's early signing period...
#23 - Texas Tech - class of 21 with one five-star and four, four-star players, for a player average of 3.29
(the NIL money in Lubbock is looking big these days, it looks like)
#31 - UCF - 18 recruits - seven four-star - player average = 3.39
#36 - TCU - 20 recruits - five four-star - player = 3.15
#41 - W Virginia - 22 recruits - one four-star - player = 2.82
#45 - AU - 19 recruits - two four-star - player = 3.00
#46 - BYU - 24 recruits - three four-star - player = 2.88
#48 - Kansas - 17 recruits - four, four-star - player = 3.24
# 51 - Cincy - 21 - no four star - player = 2.86
(TIE)
#51 - Iowa St - 22 - no four star - player = 2.86
#54 - ASU - 18 - two four-star - player = 3.06
#56 - Oklahoma St - 17 - no four star - player = 2.94
#57 - Utah - 15 - three four-star - player = 2.93
#60 - K-State - 16 - one four star - player = 2.94
#67 - Colorado - 8 - one five star and three four-star - player = 3.63
#68 - Baylor - 14 - no four star - player = 2.86
#76 - Houston - 17 - two four-star - player = 2.41
Please remember that it's a numbers game and that Rivals takes a player rating of say 5.5 for a three star that equals 16.5 points...
A three-star 5.6 would get a score of 16.8 (3 X 5.6) and a 5.8 four-star would get a 23.2 score (4 X 5.8)...
And, so on, and I think I have their methodology figured out correctly...
Then you add all those player scores up to get the team score and that's how they end up ranking each team...
Obviously, teams like Bama, Georgia, Texas, etc that have a lot of four and some five star players are going to get much higher team scores as a result...
For instance, a five-star, 6.1 rated player, will earn 30.5 points for their team, while a 5.4 two-star player will only earn a team 10.8 points...big difference, right..??
On the heels of our last regime, after the NCAA investigation was started, our recruiting efforts looked like what has happened with Oregon St right now that finished with 13 recruits for a #96 team ranking by Rivals...
Thankfully, those days appear behind us now under Dilly and his staff and we aren't too far behind any teams, for the most part, in the Big 12...
Probably in the middle somewhere but close enough to all the other teams to not be that far behind any other program moving forward...
Plus, I think Dilly and his staff will turn out to be top of the line recruiters in the Big 12 moving forward...
At least, I sure hope so and I am counting on that to happen...Go Dilly and Go Devils!!!
