Quote Originally Posted by ShotgunDawg View Post
I'm not sure that people that make this argument quite understand what we are saying.

Yes, there are many many underrated players on our commit list & there is absolutely a bias against Mississippi players in the rankings. Absolutely no one here is denying that. However, can you compete for the SEC West with an entire class of underrated players?

I don't think so & history tells us that you cannot.

This is not an individual player discussion. It's about big data & taking the entire class at face value.
No you can't make a roster of that. But you can change the perception of a program by ranking guys appropriately. Think about how many 3 star talents could have been 4 stars and changed our ranking or our perception.

Errol is a perfect example. He claimed Bama, Arkansas, Michigan, and Louisville offers when it was all over. Kid should have been a 4 star. Now because of the distance between us and #25 that year (Roughly 5.5 points) it might not have changed our ranking nationally. But might have made it close.

2017 is the one that to me could have changed the perception. Abram was a 3 star 89 overall, Sweat was an 86, Day was a 2 star 79 overall. All 3 of those should have been ranked higher regardless of how they finished this last year. We finished 9 points behind UCLA for 20th. Could that have been a Top 20 class? Very possible.

Those changes could make big perception changes for us as a whole.