Going to post the timing of commits for Jimbo's bump class (in 2019) below as a sort of comparison for what we should be targeting in terms of timing for a bump class. It gets old REALLY fast when people start saying "It's only April" or "It's only June" or whatever those goalposts move to, so this should be useful as a tracker to see if we are keeping pace or not. Note that this leaves off the guys who ended up flipping later, so there are a couple of guys ranked around 100th overall that are left off from the Summer commit list along with a few different 3 star players.
Commitments by the end of Spring
Bottom Line: We need to start landing some of our elite and higher-ranked targets by the time summer ends and football season starts up. [Edited this based on some discussions in the comments, and I agree that putting a hard line on April isn't as big of a requirement]. Jimbo had 11/15 of his bluechips and both of the composite 5 stars committed to TAMU by June 2nd for his bump class.
Recruiting is a zero-sum game. If you miss on an elite player, that means somebody else gets him while you have one less elite target to choose from. I'm not saying that people need to start firing the staff if we don't have some top-100 type dudes committed by the Spring game, but it would be fair for people to start getting concerned if we aren't somewhat tracking along this timeline.
Commitments by the end of Spring
- 11 total
- 6 composite bluechips
- 4 ranked composite .9500 or higher
- 9 total
- 4 composite bluechips
- 3 ranked composite .9500 or higher
- None
- 7 total
- 4 composite bluechips
- 0 ranked composite .9500 or higher
Bottom Line: We need to start landing some of our elite and higher-ranked targets by the time summer ends and football season starts up. [Edited this based on some discussions in the comments, and I agree that putting a hard line on April isn't as big of a requirement]. Jimbo had 11/15 of his bluechips and both of the composite 5 stars committed to TAMU by June 2nd for his bump class.
Recruiting is a zero-sum game. If you miss on an elite player, that means somebody else gets him while you have one less elite target to choose from. I'm not saying that people need to start firing the staff if we don't have some top-100 type dudes committed by the Spring game, but it would be fair for people to start getting concerned if we aren't somewhat tracking along this timeline.
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