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JJ Huddle is listing Erique Geiger from Huber Hts, as another BG recruit. I had not seen his name berfore, but have been told that we will probably sign 20-21 and save a scholarship or two for a possible JC, after the new staff has a better handle on the needs of the team.

http://recruiting.scout.com/a.z?s=73&p= ... id=3618641

http://insider.espn.go.com/ncf/recruiti ... son%3d2009

Conference rankings by Scout.com

Not too bad, for a new staff and short time on the road.


MAC Rankings






Rk. School Commits Conf. Points Top Off. Def. Sp.T. H.S. J.C. Avg. Prv.
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67. Central Michigan 29 MAC 1155 0 0 0 3 15 14 0 29 0 2.07 67.

86. Bowling Green 18 MAC 601 0 0 0 0 9 9 0 18 0 2.00 86.

91. Western Michigan 20 MAC 518 0 0 0 1 14 6 0 18 2 2.05 91.

t92. Ball State 22 MAC 510 0 0 0 0 13 9 0 22 0 2.00 t92.
t92. Temple 22 MAC 510 0 0 0 1 12 9 1 19 3 2.00 t92.

100. Northern Illinois 20 MAC 413 0 0 0 0 9 10 1 17 3 1.90 100.

101. Kent State 16 MAC 409 0 0 0 1 8 7 0 15 0 1.94 101.

103. Miami (Oh) 26 MAC 384 0 0 0 1 12 14 0 26 0 1.54 103.

104. Ohio 10 MAC 353 0 0 0 1 6 4 0 10 0 1.90 105.

110. Toledo 18 MAC 326 0 0 0 0 6 11 1 17 1 1.78 104.

115. Akron 16 MAC 284 0 0 0 0 10 6 0 14 2 1.94 115.

119. Eastern Michigan 9 MAC 196 0 0 0 0 3 6 0 9 0 1.89 119.

120. Buffalo 7 MAC 167 0 0 0 0 5

Wow, Buffalo wins the conference and pulls in the worst recruiting class in the country. Sucks to be them.

murphdogg wrote:Wow, Buffalo wins the conference and pulls in the worst recruiting class in the country. Sucks to be them.

Not quite true. Those ranking are heavily weighted by number of commitments. If you look, Central has the most commits, and hence has the highest ranking. Buffalo has the fewest, hence the lowest ranking.

But I am not discounting the strength of our class by any means. Ball St, Western, Temple, Miami, and Northern all have more commits than us, but are still rated below us.

Am I mistaken, or is the 1st number the overall class ranking (I'm not being sarcastic, I'm just not sure)?

yes

Yes, as in I'm mistaken or yes as in that's what it is?

Sorry to be a pain in the ass

Yes, the first number is the overall ranking.

Thanks for the clarification. I'm at little disappointed at the MAC's overall performance in recruiting, but at least it will make it easier for BG

Rankings are a good indicator, but are not the end all be all. Zook for Florida could pull down top 5 classes, but they never finished better than 3rd in the SEC. One more thing to consider. The NCAA only allows you to sign 25 kids to a scholly each year. That means 4 kids for CMU will either have to wait till next year, or they will have walk on status for a few years to come. This is extremely common at BCS schools, and many kids end up transfering to FCS schools to eventually play with a scholorship.

You can get around that 25 player limit a couple of ways. If you have a kid enroll in January, you can count him against last years class total. You can also sign him today but not start his scholarship until next January and count him as part of next year's limit.