I have not paid much attention to rankings much historically but was a bit curious this weekend.
Perfect Game rankings on a per player basis had us 3rd in 2024. From what I could tell this was post draft. We lost was it 3 to the draft? In 2023 we were 8th on a per player basis. We were 15th in 2022.
For 2022, Tennessee, Florida State, Alabama and Kentucky recruited a lower quality player.
We were in the ballpark. As of now, we’re at the top for 2025 and 2026. There’s no doubt NIL and the SEC matter. Using that top 15, there were around 8 non-ACC/SEC teams over the past 3 years.
Maybe there’s a correlation with Allen.
There is plenty of talent here. And quite a bit of it is experienced and mature.
Sounds like lots of weird stuff behind the scenes but a lot of issues last year were injury related - Witt, Mercer, Shaw, Harrison, Santos (I’d like to know this guys story).