AA was a five star O lineman not a D lineman and a 4 would be a kind placement for the amount of impact he's had in his first two years on the D line here. AA is and has been living on his O line size and rep from high school when... healthy. Buckner is the real hub to the D line!
None of this drivel has anything to do with the fact that both were rated 4*s in the final evaluations, which of course represents the best guesses of the sites... stars certainly aren't given or taken away retroactively. These final guesses are proven to be wildly inaccurate every single year... do you really think anyone here isn't aware of that?
Canton was the #1 ranked player on 24/7 beginning of this year, yet I bet much like Tyner another player who had to earn his 5th star back, will have to do something impressive like 7 TD's in a game which got Tyner back his star. Tyner lost his 5th star right about the time he committed to Oregon as well.
No ways, out comes the persecuted victim card again. While yes it's true that Tyner lost a 5th star about the same time he committed to Oregon, that didn't have anything to do with why he was downgraded. Repeated hamstring injuries that caused him to miss most of his Junior season was the reason sited at the time of the downgrade, and that sort of injury drop is common regardless of what school a player commits to. He proved he was healthy his Senior year, and back came his 5th star. Yes Canton was ranked at the very top of 247, but not leaving the Islands to compete in camps makes it pretty difficult to judge him against his peers which is what a rating system is attempting to do. Regardless, he was dropped to mere 4* status well before Oregon became a likely destination so again this victim stuff is just misplaced whining.
btw... Offensive Lineman
Shane Lemieux was unrated by rivals and others when he committed to Oregon, but garnered 4*s when they finally came around to it. There are countless other examples like this of UO prospects rising in their ratings at the sites as the process goes along.
Taj is the #1 APB in the nation and for some reason doesn't have a 5th star in the kind of competition he plays in and around Georgia. Yet Barnett went from a 4 star could be Oregon commit to a 5 star Alabama commit in under 90 days.
More of the poor poor pathetic victim broken record. Sites reshuffle their ratings/rankings multiple times during a cycle just like they have for years. Yes there are some obvious biases among the sites... Rivals is run & operated by Bama grads, Scout by UW Fuskies. But thinking Taj should ascend while missing his entire Senior season to injury just isn't the way things work with their guessing. He was never a 5* so it's beyond a reach to assert that committing to Oregon had anything to do with his rating
Royce rose the 247 bias star ladder because of his DOMINANT performances amongst the best at The Opening and his physical TD runs against the nations best D players in the Army All American Bowl. Let's not forget that he broke every San Diego county rushing record ever made and some of those names were big names in the NFL to boot! There is not doubt in my mind that had he committed to USC or UCLA he'd have gone in a 5*!
You really should start your own recruiting service. You could be the first service that had 6 stars! A player's star rating could be adjusted whenever King Swim Block felt appropriate. With all your insider info and expert opinions, I'm sure you'd have subscribers galore
In the meantime, the final ratings provided by the existing services is what we have as a reference.... warts and all.
Now be it this question wasn't directed to you, thank you for another instigating response, meant to irate another as opposed to having a football discussion! If what I say is such nonsense to you, stop stalking my every post! How hard can it be for you? Clearly there are others far more to your liking to bestowal your vast wisdom upon huh?
It's a public board silly. When discussing Oregon's football recruiting, I happen to strongly prefer facts over BS... I'm hardly alone in that. Regardless of who's dealing the BS here in this public forum, I'm going to continue to set the record straight with established facts/trends & mock the ridiculous. If you can't take the responses that are generated by your bullshit filled posts, you've got options. Cutting down on the BS, going away, or continuing to cry a river
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