Charleston Gazette on 2016 Recruiting...

[doctom4]

-- so we're five years into this experiment and this is what the recruiting looks like for next spring... one kid in the top 300 and it's a WR? Really? Sigh. I thought recruiting might be DH's strong point...maybe not.
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If you’re desiring a quick snapshot of WVU’s football recruiting, you’ve come to the right spot. The Mountaineers have 20 commitments for the next letter-of-intent signing day.

According to ESPN, West Virginia has one Top 300 recruit of the 20. He’s 5-foot-9, 151-pound receiver Steven Smothers, who is listed as running a 4.61 second 40-yard dash.

The Mountaineers’ team ranking for the 2016 class is No. 40. It appears the Big 12 is again having a down recruiting year because WVU’s No. 40 is fourth in the league after Baylor (14), TCU (21) and Texas (38).

According to 247 Sports, WVU has the No. 38 recruiting class nationally.

- See more at: http://www.wvgazettemail.com/article/20151028/GZ02/151029455/1115#sthash.6kzfH1Cq.dpuf

 

[Low Mountains Drifter]

That can't be correct. 5'9" 150 pounders who run 4.6 40s are a dime a dozen. You need elite speed at that size to be an elite recruit.

 

[KeatonsCorner]

A) Vingle publishes worse crap than WVPaper....... he should have been cut during the paper-merge

B) most of the top 300 talent doesn't commit before/during their season but instead waits to take visits and evaluate until signing day in February.

 

[mountiefan88]

I've been saying that recruiting is the same under every staff.

 

[KeatonsCorner]

I've been saying that recruiting is the same under every staff.

overall star-rating average is.

quantity per class is definitely not.

 

[Low Mountains Drifter]

Well, as a note on the reliability of recruiting "experts"

24/7 has him

• Ht 5-10

• Wt 152

• 40 4.46

Rivals
has him at 5'11" but doesn't list a 40.

Scout does have the vital stats in the Gazette article.

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As for Keaton, I guess he makes up definitons the same way he makes up the rest of his BS.

To the rest of the world, "most means a majority of or more than half.



54 of the top 100 committed.

121 of the top 200 committed.

196 of the top 300 committed.

Is there anything you won't distort or outright lie about?

 

[doctom4]

My favorite hype job of all time was back in the late 90s when WVU had a WR named Antonio Brown, a relatively small Floridian who played WR and ran punts back. He allegedly supposedly ran a 4.25 40 and this stat was practically an appendage to his name in those days. Of course, this would have made him faster than James Jett, a WVU WR who was on the U.S. Olympic 4x100 meter relay gold medal team. But on the field, Brown did not pull away from defenders as much as you would have thought....so I always believe the real football times are in pads. He did save his best for last, however, torching an all-SEC CB a couple of times in the Music City Bowl. Later, he got some NFL face time with the Redskins and maybe one or two others.

 

[Low Mountains Drifter]

How different is the quantity of recruits retained?

From this site, comparing current roster with LOI signees:

13 of 29 from 2012 gone without using up eligibility; 3 transfers used it up. 13 players left
7 of 26 from 2013 gone without using up eligibility; 3 transfers used it up. 16 players left
7 of 21 from 2014 gone without using up eligibility; 1 transfer used it up; 13 players left.

Seems pretty similar to the numbers under Stewart that people are using to make insane excuses for Holgorsern now?

If we get a new coach following this season, does he get a pass until 2020? Or is only Dana entitled to such incredible patience?

 

[HurdyGurdyEer]

One of these days our fans will finally figure out that WVU is still in and always will be in WV.

 

[There goes the Major]

My favorite hype job of all time was back in the late 90s when WVU had a WR named Antonio Brown, a relatively small Floridian who played WR and ran punts back. He allegedly supposedly ran a 4.25 40 and this stat was practically an appendage to his name in those days. Of course, this would have made him faster than James Jett, a WVU WR who was on the U.S. Olympic 4x100 meter relay gold medal team. But on the field, Brown did not pull away from defenders as much as you would have thought....so I always believe the real football times are in pads. He did save his best for last, however, torching an all-SEC CB a couple of times in the Music City Bowl. Later, he got some NFL face time with the Redskins and maybe one or two others.

No one gets to campus with their high school coach's highest clocked speed. He was fast. And he could jump over the hood of a car--at his height. He was a good athlete, hence the NFL career.

 

[VaultHunter]

First place prize to the poster who names a coach who will get WVU to out recruit Texas, Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, TCU and Baylor every year.

We will all be waiting with anticipation