From a recruiting perspective, you have no control over what happens with a prospect once that prospect gets on campus as that is when coaching/weigh training/decision making/personal drive development/adjusting to schemes occurs. Recruiting occurs before all of that, and it has the implicit goal of trying to get the best players possible to your campus so that they can become even better through all of that development. Given what we have seen from Fritz so far, it seems reasonable to conclude that he values speed over almost everything else, and, if Bradwell is faster than Glen, Bradwell being higher than Glen makes sense - and that also would explain Powell's fall.Lang5 wrote:Not sure how high school stats transfer into a player ability to play college football. Size and a skillset has to be considered along with the skill set of the players he is playing against in high school. along with coaching and system he is playing in. It is known in the recruiting world that a two
and three star in Florida is a three and four star in other states. Cuilette was a three star qb who senior stats who completed 127-of-255 passes for 2,128 yards, 25 touchdowns and 10 interceptions while running 121 times for 493 yards and five touchdowns. Bradwell was a two star qb from florida who stats as a senior, accounted for over 2,300 yards of offense and 27 touchdowns...rushed for 1,213 yards on 125 carries (9.7 ypc) and 134.8 yards per game and threw for 1,097 yards and 11 touchdowns. However they both are co starters with Bradwell only being here for a couple months while Glenn has been a couple years and they are neck and neck.
Arguing that a FL 2-3* is the same as a 4* somewhere else is a tough one, especially if that argument is being utilized to justify our commits. The rating sites generally use the same cut off for 4-5* players at about ~50 players for 5* and ~250 for 4* nationally a year, so, at least in theory, the very best players would have that designation regardless of where they are from. Granted, there are likely a lot of very good 3* players in FL that do not make that cut off, but the very same could be said for GA, LA, TX, CA, OH, PA, etc, and that doesn't really explain the fact that we can't sign a consensus 3* Louisiana QB while ULL/FAU/etc. can.
As a side note, Levi Lewis (LA) and Kaylan Wiggins (FL) played at the highest classifications in their states, so, unless you believe that FL plays much tougher football than LA, these players are certainly comparable in terms of strength of opposition - hence why an evaluation of stats makes it easy to conclude why one is 2* and the other is 3*.