2025 Recruiting Thread

WhosYourDawggy said:
Interestingly, on Rivals, Oregon is No. 1 and for them it depends on if they flip this TE commit from Michigan.

Assuming Terry goes UGA, we would be no. 1 on the 247 Composite.

The interesting thing is how the top has gotten clogged up. Unlike years past, NIL is making it so that talent is spread out more. We are definitely seeing that now.

You aren't totally embarrassing yourself being in the SEC, SEC, SEC! :beer2:
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TE..you mean the OT Ty Haywood right?

it's open now.. paying is legal and above board :) #HOOKEM
 
Thiefery said:
TE..you mean the OT Ty Haywood right?

it's open now.. paying is legal and above board :) #HOOKEM
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No, Oregon is currently no. 1 on Rivals. UGA no. 2. If we land Terry we move ahead. But there is a TE that Oregon is trying to flip from Michigan. If they do that, they will be no. 1 on Rivals. Rivals only counts the top 20. That is why they fare better there than 247 and On3. I follow Rivals more closely because I am way more involved there - I have an annual thing I do for them, and they publish articles I write a few times per year. But I actually think 247 is the best of the services because their composite takes into consideration 4 different rating services.

At the end of the day, the key takeaway is that the gap between the top 10 is becoming far narrower than it has been in the past. I think that instead of Bama, UGA, and tOSU being way out ahead of everyone, you are going to find a top 4-8 teams really close in talent, with another half dozen doing well enough to win it if things fall in place. The portal also plays a big part in that. A no. 10 HS recruiting team can kill the portal one year, or more than that, and be very competitive. Think FSU last year.
 
Had to go back to 2016 the last time OU was not ranked top 15 in recruiting. 247 has them at #16 right now.
 
WhosYourDawggy said:
No, Oregon is currently no. 1 on Rivals. UGA no. 2. If we land Terry we move ahead. But there is a TE that Oregon is trying to flip from Michigan. If they do that, they will be no. 1 on Rivals. Rivals only counts the top 20. That is why they fare better there than 247 and On3. I follow Rivals more closely because I am way more involved there - I have an annual thing I do for them, and they publish articles I write a few times per year. But I actually think 247 is the best of the services because their composite takes into consideration 4 different rating services.

At the end of the day, the key takeaway is that the gap between the top 10 is becoming far narrower than it has been in the past. I think that instead of Bama, UGA, and tOSU being way out ahead of everyone, you are going to find a top 4-8 teams really close in talent, with another half dozen doing well enough to win it if things fall in place. The portal also plays a big part in that. A no. 10 HS recruiting team can kill the portal one year, or more than that, and be very competitive. Think FSU last year.
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Yeah -- I agree with the top talent being spread out more. Michigan has entered the discussion now to be one of the top schools in recruiting, as rumor is, the administration has given the go ahead of the football team to use NIL in recruiting.

What is wild -- the guy who is funding the NIL collective for recruiting isn't even a Michigan grad. His wife is though and her two kids are Michigan fans. I guess when you are worth $250 Billion -- you run out of things to buy the wife and kids, so why not buy some football recruits for their favorite team.
 
NewPhoneWhoDis said:
Yeah -- I agree with the top talent being spread out more. Michigan has entered the discussion now to be one of the top schools in recruiting, as rumor is, the administration has given the go ahead of the football team to use NIL in recruiting.

What is wild -- the guy who is funding the NIL collective for recruiting isn't even a Michigan grad. His wife is though and her two kids are Michigan fans. I guess when you are worth $250 Billion -- you run out of things to buy the wife and kids, so why not buy some football recruits for their favorite team.
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That would be his 5th wife, but hey, when you are worth $250 billion, the rules don't apply.
 
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*FLIP*



4 star QB Robert McDaniel out of California has flipped from Arizona to UCLA.

Robert McDaniel - Hughson - Quarterback


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*DOUBLE FLIP*


4 star IOL Alai Kalaniuvalu out of Nevada who flipped from Oregon to BYU back on Nov 2nd has flipped from BYU back to Oregon.

 
Well, looks like Terry to Jexas.

 
Huge win for Texas with Terry: @Thiefery

"* From the Texas side of things, they believes the NIL package that is in front of Terry is putting a lot of pressure on a Georgia side that hasn't gone as far as Texas has with any recruit or player it has ever had in its program, including other 5-star defensive linemen in the 2025 recruiting class. If Texas doesn't land Terry, it won't be because they didn't try to obliterate its competition from an NIL investment standpoint. You can't make someone take your money, but we're talking about a sum of money large enough that Texas feels like it will be very tough to turn down.

OB believes that the Longhorns have presented the most attractive NIL offer – possibly by a decent margin – and that’s a big part of the reason for confidence in Austin.

* One person this week told us that Georgia operates similarly to Texas in that the UGA program has a soft cap that it prefers to not go over with NIL offerings. Texas, as we’ve noted, has shattered that ceiling with Michael Fausui and now with Terry. Georgia might need to do the same, but we’re told the backing is there since Georgia basically decided against ponying up money for guys like Kevin Wynn and Jeramiah McCloud."

At the end of the day, can only go so far when they get offered that much money. Can't complain, we play the game just got beat here and wasn't willing to go higher.
 
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On Terry ...

Per all the Insiders at Rivals - these are UGA staff guys - he's been a silent commit for 14 months. UT simply threw too much money at him. Rumored to be $1 million a year.

It's going to be interesting to see a couple things:

1. If the House settlement clearing house concept, designed to get rid of pay for play will actually withstand legal challenge. I am skeptical.

2. Why would any top 10, top 25 player commit and sign before the 3rd day of ESD? Like Terry, you just wait everyone out and wait for one of the Texas schools, or Oregon, or UTjr, Miami, whichever, thrown crazy money at you.

I have some sour grapes, but I understand no one has any sympathy ... we've been playing the recruiting game for a long time and we get better players than most. I just hope we can get the pay for play out of this, compensate them well, but not over the top crazy. For example, Texas could still pay Terry $1 million, but they would have to allocate it from the revenue share which is capped. I have no problem losing a player that way.
 
WhosYourDawggy said:
That would be his 5th wife, but hey, when you are worth $250 billion, the rules don't apply.
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Yeah -- at $250 billion, he has FU money for 100 lifetimes. He could fund the Michigan collective on the interest he makes in 1 day every year and not even blink an eye.
 
WhosYourDawggy said:
On Terry ...

Per all the Insiders at Rivals - these are UGA staff guys - he's been a silent commit for 14 months. UT simply threw too much money at him. Rumored to be $1 million a year.

It's going to be interesting to see a couple things:

1. If the House settlement clearing house concept, designed to get rid of pay for play will actually withstand legal challenge. I am skeptical.

2. Why would any top 10, top 25 player commit and sign before the 3rd day of ESD? Like Terry, you just wait everyone out and wait for one of the Texas schools, or Oregon, or UTjr, Miami, whichever, thrown crazy money at you.

I have some sour grapes, but I understand no one has any sympathy ... we've been playing the recruiting game for a long time and we get better players than most. I just hope we can get the pay for play out of this, compensate them well, but not over the top crazy. For example, Texas could still pay Terry $1 million, but they would have to allocate it from the revenue share which is capped. I have no problem losing a player that way.
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In all honesty -- the only schools hurt by this are the football factory schools who were collecting all the 5 stars to begin with. This will end up bringing parity to CFB, which will only make it even more entertaining
 
Remember A&M’s #1 2022 recruiting class that Jimbo Fisher had?

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Well, about that…

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Texas got a good one.

Alabama was in the mix with Terry but then the Barners came in and blew his $$$ out of proportion and we pretty much backed out. I’m shocked Kirby played the game till the end, he must have really wanted the kid.

But I was told UGA is taking a similar approach to Bama when it comes to NIL so shocked they played the game with Terry that long
 
Mistaken4193 said:
Texas got a good one.

Alabama was in the mix with Terry but then the Barners came in and blew his $$$ out of proportion and we pretty much backed out. I’m shocked Kirby played the game till the end, he must have really wanted the kid.

But I was told UGA is taking a similar approach to Bama when it comes to NIL so shocked they played the game with Terry that long
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Georgia fans are already claiming he's Bear 2.0
 
WhosYourDawggy said:
On Terry ...

Per all the Insiders at Rivals - these are UGA staff guys - he's been a silent commit for 14 months. UT simply threw too much money at him. Rumored to be $1 million a year.

It's going to be interesting to see a couple things:

1. If the House settlement clearing house concept, designed to get rid of pay for play will actually withstand legal challenge. I am skeptical.

2. Why would any top 10, top 25 player commit and sign before the 3rd day of ESD? Like Terry, you just wait everyone out and wait for one of the Texas schools, or Oregon, or UTjr, Miami, whichever, thrown crazy money at you.

I have some sour grapes, but I understand no one has any sympathy ... we've been playing the recruiting game for a long time and we get better players than most. I just hope we can get the pay for play out of this, compensate them well, but not over the top crazy. For example, Texas could still pay Terry $1 million, but they would have to allocate it from the revenue share which is capped. I have no problem losing a player that way.
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Item #2 is my thought as well. Let the schools that missed out on a top talent panic and throw bags of money to try to save their recruiting class ranking.
 
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