I was wondering how this stacks up versus the ‘04’s.
This class is stunning. C’mon down C.J.!
By 247sports (sizes as reported then)
2004
Brewer, 5*, 6'7" 174 lbs, 23 national rank, 4 SF, rating .9904
Horford, 4*, 6'8" 211 lbs, 42 national rank, 7 PF, rating .9819
Noah, 4*, 6'10" 200 lbs, 73 national rank, 17 PF, rating .9717
Green, 4* 5'11" 165 lbs, 105 national rank, 19 PG, rating .9582
This class was rank 8th in its year with 66.47 points.
2019
Lewis, 5*, 6'5" 185 lbs, 11 national rank, 4 SF, rating .9957
Mann, 5*, 6'3" 170 lbs, 25 national rank, 3 PG, rating .9909
Walker, 4* 6'8" 200 lbs, 28 national rank, 6 PF, rating .9896
Payne, 4* 6'9" 215 lbs, 38 national rank, 10 C, rating .9859
This of course is projecting (hoping) UF gets CJ Walker. Without Walker this class has 64.62 points and is ranked 4th in the 247 composite rankings.
Oddly UF dropped slots from 2 to 4 over night? Maybe 247 had some glitch in their algorithm calculating this. Anyway with Walker this class would be 66.80 points as of now and would be ranked number 1 at this point in time. Clearly many other recruits will commit and UF may fall further in these rankings. Also player rankings will be adjusted in the future. It will be interesting if either of UF's 5*s lose a star?
BTW, I think this is not White's 04s as much as it is White's class of 1998 which was the class Donovan built his program on. For this class I have to switch to the RSCI (Recruiting Service Composite Index) as 247sports does not go back that far:
1998
Miller, 6'8" national rank 13, 6 SF
Dupay, 5'10" national rank 20, 3 PG
Halton, 6'4" national rank 53, 7 SG
Haslem, 6'10" national rank 72, 9 C
This class was ranked 5th. It also included Sylbrin Robinson who I think was also signed in 1999 but never qualified either year.
Another great past UF class of four players was Norm Sloans class of Portillo, C, Ramos, PG, Poole, SF and Walker, PF. Only Poole really worked out for UF, but that was another era.