USF out recruited in Florida

[The Great 8]

Louisville has more spots open, of course they're going to outrank us in any metric using a "total" of stars.

Next year we'll probably have a top 25-ish class of our own since we'll have a lot of exiting seniors.

[SANJAY]

Recruiting rankings for individual players mean nothing as who knows if a specific individual player will develop or not. However, collectively I would rather have a class of 4 stars over 2 stars. No guarantees just better odds.

Also, of the 14 kids committed to USF from rivals 6 are not from Florida so they're irrelevant to the discussion of being out recruited in Florida. The other 8 have Bivins, Montgomery and Price who should be studs. But of the last 5 you have wiggins who ma be a grade casualty, perry who is a 3 year project before he even gets on he field much less contributes, Hamilton who may be better on the OL than he DL where he was recruited and spencer and McCall who should be solid.

[namuh-bull]

Ratings don't always translate into a good record on the field, but I would still rather have highly rated kids. I think we are doing fine compared to the other conference teams.

For an example of great recruiting rankings not transferring to game results, look at recent years from FSU, Miami, ND, and especially Texas. Texas is usually in the top 10, often in the top 5, but have played like a bottom half team the last few years.

Go Bulls!

[88Alum]

Points taken but I'd still rather have a roster of 4 and 5 stars then play hit and miss with 2 and 3 stars. And the article is right - we should be dominating Florida recruiting and somehow we're barely in the equation.

[Triple B]

Points taken but I'd still rather have a roster of 4 and 5 stars then play hit and miss with 2 and 3 stars. And the article is right - we should be dominating Florida recruiting and somehow we're barely in the equation.

Why should we be dominating?

[TikiBull]

Not just in Florida but even our own backyard. We only have 2 of these guys in the bay area! Not sure if we offered them, but I would assume we did.

http://www.tampabay....-top-160/12412/

exactly - this is inexcusable...not even in the conversation for the top bay area talent...not good...

[TikiBull]

http://www.tampabay.com/hometeam/blog/times-top-25-class-2012/12426/

you have to go all the way down to number 10 before USF gets a mention...how is this even possible?

[Rizman]

Because we have not won our conference and we play in the Big Least.

Our future schedule is not that good either.

[Triple B]

http://www.tampabay....ass-2012/12426/

you have to go all the way down to number 10 before USF gets a mention...how is this even possible?

8 of the first 9 have all commited so you don't know if there would have been a mention there or not .... and all 8 commited to schools from major BCS conferences ... Agoholor's only looking at upper echelon BCS schools.

[SANJAY]

http://www.tampabay.com/hometeam/blog/times-top-25-class-2012/12426/

you have to go all the way down to number 10 before USF gets a mention...how is this even possible?

#7 Rayshawn jenkins was committed here before flipping to Miami. The fact that we did not get Moore and culkin is disappointing because we should be pulling 3-5 guys on any local top 25 list. As for guys like agholor, Matt jones and fowler, it will be hard to get those types of "national" recruits without really winning conference titles.