Rutgers’ best class ever? Here’s a player-by-player breakdown of eye-opening recruiting surge
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Solid class with potential, but it needs a few more at the top end and no decommits to equal 2012
Rutgers football lands more commitments in June
No complaints here. I've always paid less attention to how many stars a guy has next to his name in favor of which schools are offering. This class may be light on 4-5 star guys, but the offer list on most of these guys is better than what we usually see in an RU recruiting class.
The only thing that concerns me about that, is it seems a lot of schools are "offering" guys but they aren't committable offers. Rutgers doesn't play that game since Ash left but most schools do. So if a guy has an offer from Georgia, but it's not a committable offer, I'm just not sure what that means. For now, he committed to Rutgers. But if Georgia ends up light at that position, they may tell the guy his offer is now committable along with a bag of NIL money. At that point, does he flip? We'll see.
The only thing that concerns me about that, is it seems a lot of schools are "offering" guys but they aren't committable offers. Rutgers doesn't play that game since Ash left but most schools do. So if a guy has an offer from Georgia, but it's not a committable offer, I'm just not sure what that means. For now, he committed to Rutgers. But if Georgia ends up light at that position, they may tell the guy his offer is now committable along with a bag of NIL money. At that point, does he flip? We'll see.
Where you at, RutgersAl? This good news is just what you’re talking about!
This needs to be an average type class for us going forward to be competitive.
Please don't get Al started,LOL. He will go over to the Ohio state board and tell Rutgers will win the national championship next year.
While I agree about offers, it is also a very difficult way to figure it all out. As you said- are those offers committable? Also- on the other side of things- some kids still just don't get into that game. They figure out early who they like and make it known and then they don't get as many offers as a kid who leaves his options open. Early on when we went through it- we kicked NC State out of our house, but they had an offer that wasnt reported. We told BC, UConn, and a couple of other ACC schools that he wasnt interested so they werent reported. And same to a host of lower level schools. He really only reported the schools he took an OV with as well as Maryland because it was a last minute decision to OV Rutgers instead of Maryland.
In these days of the NIL- it might be a different story though.
Yeah the two most recent 5.8 commits are reasons for optimism.
Just bear in mind that several other Big Ten schools fared a little better. OSU has 15 verbals rated 5.8 or better; Michigan has 16, Pedd State has 11.
How do we compete with that ?
Not having to play all of them every year is a good start.
Let's see...this is the class of 24, so they'll make an impact in 26, probably all start by 27. Looks like the next 4 years are free.
That wasn’t directed at you. We have a poster on here who created a thread claiming that Schiano gets the next 2 years “free” without risk of getting canned regardless of team performance.