February 2, 20179 yr Young hard working staff trying to look for positives, build up a place with what assets they have and sell a vision instead of making excuses. Reminds me of when James Franklin went to Vanderbilt.
February 3, 20179 yr Author From the bottom to the top..... Also had the most improved scoring offense in FCS this year. Now need to make strides on defense.
February 3, 20179 yr I am not trying to poopoo the Austin Peay recruiting class, but trying to rank the recruiting of players and teams so far down in the rankings, it is not near the level of preciseness that comes with the already unreliability of rankings at the top, it does not mean much, imo. Hoping it turns out well for them. This article sums it up best: FCS RECRUITING: National Top 25 Commitments - HERO Sports Breaking down FCS recruiting is kind of like juggling 97 tennis balls at once and hoping you only drop three. In other words, it is somewhat daunting. There are a lot of dynamics to keep in mind. Teams from the Missouri Valley, Colonial Athletic Association and Big Sky tend to recruit like Power Five FBS teams, in that they wrap up their classes prior to the national signing period. Teams from the Ivy League can and do attract players with Big Ten and Big 12 offers, but the league doesn't offer athletic scholarships and thus will have massive groups coming in together, sometimes with classes of nearly 40 players for a single team. The Patriot League is just now getting used to scholarship football again, while some conferences -- such as the Southwestern Athletic Conference and Mid-eastern Athletic Conference and others -- will use the entire allowed signing period through April to build their classes out. So comparing recruiting classes from one conference to another is a bit like comparing apples and flat-head screwdrivers.
February 3, 20179 yr Author I am not trying to poopoo the Austin Peay recruiting class, but trying to rank the recruiting of players and teams so far down in the rankings, it is not near the level of preciseness that comes with the already unreliability of rankings at the top, it does not mean much, imo. Hoping it turns out well for them. This article sums it up best: FCS RECRUITING: National Top 25 Commitments - HERO Sports Breaking down FCS recruiting is kind of like juggling 97 tennis balls at once and hoping you only drop three. In other words, it is somewhat daunting. There are a lot of dynamics to keep in mind. Teams from the Missouri Valley, Colonial Athletic Association and Big Sky tend to recruit like Power Five FBS teams, in that they wrap up their classes prior to the national signing period. Teams from the Ivy League can and do attract players with Big Ten and Big 12 offers, but the league doesn't offer athletic scholarships and thus will have massive groups coming in together, sometimes with classes of nearly 40 players for a single team. The Patriot League is just now getting used to scholarship football again, while some conferences -- such as the Southwestern Athletic Conference and Mid-eastern Athletic Conference and others -- will use the entire allowed signing period through April to build their classes out. So comparing recruiting classes from one conference to another is a bit like comparing apples and flat-head screwdrivers. I'd rather be saying "what if" and making my excuses with the #1 class than the #100 class. Everyone has circumstances, everyone has luck good or bad, everyone has to develop and deploy the talent.
February 3, 20179 yr I'd rather be saying "what if" and making my excuses with the #1 class than the #100 class. Everyone has circumstances, everyone has luck good or bad, everyone has to develop and deploy the talent. Sure. I am just saying the rankings of 1-100 are really more like 120-220 in your scenario. The further you go away from the top of the rankings list, said list is that less reliable. Generally if you have one decent signing or two it can catapult an FCS school in a ranking composite. Not exactly sure what/who APSU signed? Still a step in the right direction for a program that went virtually dormant for the better part of 20 years. With the size of Clarksville, tradition rich football of rural West Tennessee and Nashville less than an hour away, it has never made sense to me how the Govs have been as bad as they have.
February 6, 20179 yr Two guys transfer in from Bama and UF and your now the best team in the OVC. It isn't necessarily about recruiting HS kids. More about recruiting D1 and JUCO transfers.
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