re: Recruiting has gone down, 3 star will absolutely not bring home a Nati

Maybe this take held water 5 years ago but in today's portal age it doesn't one bit.

Go to On3, and they have a great NIL breakdown by player. As they have said, it is an estimate of what the player believes their value to be based on information they are provided. That is what that number represents.

As for your statement about LSU not pumping out money, you are correct. And, that is part of the issue. Schools like aTm, Texas, Bama, Georgia, and others at the very top, have collectives that are associated with the schools themselves, in essence daring the NCAA to do something to them. If the NCAA were to do so, they are prepared to go to court and challenge if need be. Or, in the case of the SEC (and possibly even Big 10), they pull away from the NCAA altogether and form their own competitive league, which has already proven to be much more dominant and lucrative to the NCAA than the NCAA is to the SEC. It's like a big game of chicken right now. All you have to do is look at what just happened this past week with the ruling in the courts on the transfer portal restrictions the NCAA was trying to reimpose. When the courts put the TRO on them, they threw a fit for a second, then folded like a wet suit. I think LSU wants to go all in like Bama, Georgia, and others. The boosters and the school, like most other programs, have just been playing it safe just in case for now. Remember, we are only in the 2nd year of NIL. As I mentioned, Livvy, Jayden, and Angel have shown you can be successful in the NIL world. Malik is just outside the Top 50. On that list, go see how many high schoolers are on it. That is what's scary. Wait til they start paying 8th graders.

I love when people post facts

RB and 2 LB from Texas are 5 star. They don’t rate them as that. Green is 5 star. Our kids are rated too low.

Do me a favor, please go through LSU’s commit list and tell me which prospects don't belong at LSU and why. I'll bookmark the post and we’ll revisit it in three years.

need a top 7 class to be top third in SEC

How much do you give to Bayou Traditions ? I bet nothing.

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TL/DR version: Take the earlier versions of the rankings with a grain of salt and the same can be said for the final updates. The correlation between team rankings and on-field performance is a bit of a self-fulfilling prophecy as the final updates to rankings more closely correlate to the coaches evaluations and the individual player's offer sheet. That is why you see the "Bama Bump", yes - the "LSU Bump", the "Ohio State Bump", oh hell, the "Power 5 Bump".

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Thank you for your service in completely destroying the OP with facts.

Some of the same should happen this year. We already have 1 5 star on On3 when you look at their rankings. It will be a crime if Green doesn’t get one before the last update comes out. Our On3 guys all are pushing that and think he deserves it. I also expect a few of our underrated 3 stars to get a bump up to 4. But like you said- the only thing this indicates is the weakness of the system at evaluating ALL players, not how good the players are. Atkins and Keys being 3 stars on one service or the other is a great example of this. Anyone who watches them play will scratch their heads on that one.

OP with a stupid take must be going for the down vote record.

I trust BK's evaluation over some minimum wage recruiting analysis expert.