Recruiting 2020 Recruiting Thread: Gervon Dexter gets 5th Star on Rivals

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Thanks. I get it. A new name. We use a cb with better coverage but worse run support. So if Johnson could cover AND tackle, he might be an upgrade. Incidentally, I was surprised to see Marco tackling better against Mizzou, wasn't I?
I believe so, on all fronts.

As for the name change, in most defenses that call their NB a star, it is more of a second "strong" safety (obviously the star and strong may both me on the weakside). that's a little bit confusing.
 
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At the end of the day, most of the top kids are going to multiple camps and getting graded out by all the services. I don’t even think Law would gripe about a 3* type kid if it’s known he hasn’t camped and there is some film on him. No one ever said all 3*s are bad. But these should be the exceptions, not the rule. With Johnson, it was probably obvious that he was underrated and made it easier to spot and offer. We’re about to see how some of these “underrated” prospects from the first two classes pan out.
Look, Nobody is going to look at the top kids that have phenomenal stats against top competition and dominate and rank them low. Gervon is going to get ranked high no matter what, whether he's a high 4* or a 5*. I do have a problem with kids that are ranked high because of camps but have weak film and weak stats. Games are not won in camps, they're won on the field, live. It's the in-between kids that are in dispute the 3* that should be ranked as a 4*, the 4* that should be ranked as a low 3 because they only have camps to show but no performance in games. I am not even talking about Trevez or Trask. Look we offered about 25 RBs this year. Do you think that 247 sports looked at their highlights? They don't even let the 247 Gator recruiting people rank them. They only allow the national guys to do it. How much time do you think they spent evaluating each and every one of those 25 running backs? Multiply that number by each position. How much even the national 247 really know about evaluation? Do they know what to look for? Did they even play HS ball? Do they even know what the midline is?:D
 

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Just to be clear the 247 Sports ranking is a different than the 247 Composite. The composite includes all "major" ranking services "equally" (including 247 sports). When we are talking about team rankings and individual players it's always the composite. So 247 Sports could be biased in their ranking but them by their selves shouldn't move the needle much.

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UNC coaches on twitter freaking out about this and calling our coaches scum for offering him. Have a feeling we might have a chance.

You know, it is a pretty scummy move. Depending on who exactly the recruiters were that offered him, I think once we sign this kid I may be in favor of sending them packing.
 

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UNC coaches on twitter freaking out about this and calling our coaches scum for offering him. Have a feeling we might have a chance.

I can see why they might be pissed.

Their class is huge with 26 commits, but they only have 8 four star players committed and this DT is one of them.

I like this sort of proactive move. We need good players at DT, we need to control Tampa, and we need to run programs like UNC out of the state.
 

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Goods, Dexter, Brown, Smith, Pinder and Jalen Humphries from last year’s class represent, if it all comes together, a decent start to repairing interior defensive line depth.

we got enough room to splurge at DT the way they tried to do last year on OL.

I also saw Jalen Lee is back on the board. Why? LSU pushing him out? They’re stacking up at DT.
 

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This what annoys me. We spend months trying to flip a dude from freaking bama because that happens so often. And wait till it's too late to grab a solid 4 star in our own backyard.
 
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I can see why they might be pissed.

Their class is huge with 26 commits, but they only have 8 four star players committed and this DT is one of them.

I like this sort of proactive move. We need good players at DT, we need to control Tampa, and we need to run programs like UNC out of the state.

It's not the easiest recruit-path for a student to take - this"huggy-welcome pursuit" ending up in vitriol spraying everywhere.?
So, a 17-18-year-old student-athlete is already submerged beneath an avalanche of info & considerations. Now, he gets an offer from a school that gives him better conditions = closer to home, his sister already at the new offer school, etc. If it's better for his life, then there he should go.
 

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Does anyone have the tweet of the unc coach crying?
 

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What is scummy about this? Genuinely don’t understand? Because it makes their job harder?

The UNC coach is just being a whiny bitch and lashing out.

Higdon just added him to his most likely list and expects this to get done. Apparently the coaches have been doing a lot of film work and player evals this week and Dan and Turner LOVED this guys senior film
 
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