DCDeac
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I'm thankful for your great analysis, Deac94.
Yep!
I'm thankful for your great analysis, Deac94.
Deac94, if you ever feel so inclined, I love to see a scoreboard of which schools we have beaten for recruits.
Hopefully this is what you were looking for. I summarized scholarship offers for our 2015 commits. Note that I cannot put together a true analysis of recruiting wins/losses because I can’t tell which offers were committable versus noncommittable. To be consistent, I didn’t exclude an offer even in situations where I knew that it was not committable. A couple of other notes: 1) I used Rivals for efficiency even though 247s offer lists seem to be slightly more reliable/comprehensive, 2) the numbers below are heavily driven by 5 players: Bo Archibald, Jake Bargas, Dionte Austin, Kendall Hinton and Steven Claude.
Here are the schools that offered 3 or more of our commits. The results were actually very interesting:
Duke 6
Boston College 4
Illinois 4
Indiana 4
Rutgers 3
UVA 3
Kentucky 3
Mississippi State 3
Louisville 3
The biggest surprise for me was that Duke was at the top of the list. I wouldn’t have guessed that. However, I will say again that I am not sure how many times we truly beat them head-to-head. There is no way to really know.
The other big surprise for me was certain schools in our area that didn’t make the list. We had only one recruit with an offer from the following schools: N.C. State (Hinton), Georgia Tech (Austin), Maryland (Austin) and Virginia Tech (Austin). We don’t have any commits that were offered by Clemson.
I also expected that we would have more commits with offers from Louisville. It has been documented that they are probably the biggest user of noncommittable offers as a recruiting tool. I think that they offer every kid that they send mail to. Just kidding (somewhat).
I wasn’t surprised that Boston College, Illinois, Indiana and Rutgers made the list. I knew that we were overlapping with them a lot last year.
As long as we are getting offensive linemen that BC wants since they always seem to do well on that front.