We are less than 48 hours from Wednesday, National Letter of Intent Day. Chas averaged the class rankings from Scout.com, Rivals.com, and Scouts, Inc./ESPN.com and came up with this ranking of the Big East teams:
- Pitt
- West Virginia
- Rutgers
- Louisville
- Syracuse
- South Florida
- UConn
- Cinci
Along with that was this small breakdown of Pitt’s ranking.
Pitt: Ranked #10 by Scout.com, #23 by Rivals.com and #28 by ESPN.com/Scouts, Inc. They’ve had the best recruiting class in the conference last year as well. They’ve yet to do anything with it.
As we knew coming in and have seen from the verbal commitments over the past few months, Dave Wannstedt knows what he’s doing when he goes into the homes and school of these player’s. We can only hope he starts finding out the right way to make the players work on the field as well.
Maybe sometime soon we’ll be ahead of Georgia Tech, WVU, and Nebraska on the field instead of just in recruiting polls.
Pitt: (20) Ranked #10 by Scout.com, #23 by Rivals.com and #28 by ESPN.com/Scouts, Inc. They’ve had the best recruiting class in the conference last year as well. They’ve yet to do anything with it.
WVU: (30) Ranked #22 by Scout.com, #38 by Rivals.com and #30 by ESPN.com/Scouts, Inc. Still waiting on a couple other kids to decide, could push them higher come Wednesday.
Rutgers: (39) Ranked #25 by Scout.com, #32 by Rivals.com and #62 by ESPN.com/Scouts, Inc. Keeps improving in the kids who come aboard every year.
Louisville: (41) Ranked #44 by Scout.com, #41 by Rivals.com and #39 by ESPN.com/Scouts, Inc. Hurt by Coach Petrino leaving, as they were working on some bigger names that were waiting to decide. Quality, but not quantity.
Syracuse: (51) Ranked #42 by Scout.com, #46 by Rivals.com and #65 by ESPN.com/Scouts, Inc. Pretty good considering how bad they have been.
USF: (52) Ranked #54 by Scout.com, #60 by Rivals.com and #43 by ESPN.com/Scouts, Inc. It’s not a question about some of the talent, but an issue of qualifying academically.
UConn: (65) Ranked #55 by Scout.com, #63 by Rivals.com and #77 by ESPN.com/Scouts, Inc. Actually doing pretty well this year.
Cinci: (81) Ranked #74 by Scout.com, #82 by Rivals.com and #87 by ESPN.com/Scouts, Inc. It’s tough enough to recruit against Ohio State and other Big 10 schools, but the coaching change didn’t help for this year.
That is, in order for USF to compete in the crowded FL recruiting market do they have to run a “thug program” of guys other schools won’t take due to off the field issues? (see the blurb about them in the thing Reed posted)
Will the Bulls take the ‘canes place in the Big East, not only by being from Florida, but by being the BE’s resident “thug” program?
I’m pretty sure SAT and GPA have to be satisfactory in order to play.
I really like the photos, writing style etc that you did over there. Why not carry it over here?
All of the additional info you needed was found in the link in the original post.
The decision on photos with Dennis was at my request. I realize it is very widespread on blogs to use photos, but it is risky to do so on your own site (as opposed to a wordpress or blogspot blog) because a particularly aggressive copyright holder can shut down your blog and go after you for damages.
Never say, never, but the usage is trying to be limiteded so there is no way that there can be claims of widespread, consistent or ongoing misappropriation.
Maybe sometime soon we’ll be ahead of Georgia Tech, WVU, and Nebraska on the field instead of just in recruiting polls. ”
The way to achieve both of these, is to fire Paul Rhoa_s, but until next season, that ship has sailed.
Your ranking don’t indicate differential between schools.