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I was curious to see what the Byers commitment would do to our team recruiting rankings. Although he's not rated all that high on there, I figured he'd still at least give us a little bump in point total, though I knew it wouldn't be enough to overtake Auburn and retake the #6 spot. They had us at 1916 points before his commitment, and they now list us at 1912 points. I really don't even care that much where we end up, as long as we bring in the players we want, but I do like the national recognition. I just don't quite understand how adding Byers could detract from our class.

Some players make everyone around them better. I guess they don't think he's that kind of guy.

SteelTown43 wrote:I was curious to see what the Byers commitment would do to our team recruiting rankings. Although he's not rated all that high on there, I figured he'd still at least give us a little bump in point total, though I knew it wouldn't be enough to overtake Auburn and retake the #6 spot. They had us at 1916 points before his commitment, and they now list us at 1912 points. I really don't even care that much where we end up, as long as we bring in the players we want, but I do like the national recognition. I just don't quite understand how adding Byers could detract from our class.

It seems that Rivals rates higher based on quality and Scout rates higher based on quantity.

Rivals has a matrix which in part considers your top 20 ranked prospects and average star rating. Because Byers is a 3 star, he lowered our overall star rating, but had no effect on our top 20. For the last couple commits (Lake, Kelley and now Byers), we have lost 4 points each time because our avg has dropped.

Well he did put us back ahead of the Fuskys on Scout!