When Scout ranked last February’s recruiting classes, North Carolina wound up an impressive No.6. Now, though, as the new season gets underway, the recruiting site has ranked those classes again, taking attrition into account.
This is what Scout has to say about the Tar Heels:
“North Carolina is the team that may have been hit the hardest by attrition. The Tar Heels planned for some of the attrition by over-signing by four players, but losing high profile signees like Justin Dixon (to East Carolina when he didn’t qualify), Johnnie Farms (currently at Hargrave Military Academy) and Donavan Tate (signed to play major league baseball) dropped North Carolina double digit spots in the Revised Rankings.”
Now the Tar Heels are 18th, out of site of their former top ten perch. And while UNC remains the highest-ranked ACC school, they trail seven SEC teams, with LSU, Alabama and Georgia lining up right behind top-rated OhioState.
South Carolina’s Gamecocks are No.19, just after North Carolina. They fell from 13th after losing Leon Mackey and Duane Chisolm. The next ACC team is FloridaState at No.20.
Nine SEC teams are among the list’s top 24 schools.
A few more ACC teams pop in with solid classes, with Miami at 23, Georgia Tech (27), Maryland (28) and Clemson (35).Other Carolina schools find N.C.State at 41, Duke at 45 and WakeForest at 49 (up from 56). Scout only re-ranked its top 50.
--Stan Olson
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Smoke and mirrors will not prevent the fall from grace this year in Chapel Hill. It will be sad to watch UNC take a major step backwards this year after all the hype.
"fall from grace"?? this team has won 15 games in the last 3 seasons. Hardly grace worthy. UNC is still bringing great talent with back to back recruiting classes in top 20. O-line is certainly an area of worry this season but the rest of the team is solid to very good. And don't give me the WR inexperience BS, thats the easiest position to step into and contribute. Here's to a healthy season.
Stan old-son the fart! What are you ....senile and dumb? Is all you can do at a desk is plagarize off other peoples work! And what you copycat is just a dumb article to boot. It says nothing dumbass. We still get Farms back and his star will go from a 4 to a 5 star by January. Go talk to Hargrave coach Prunty and get off your lazy fat old ass and do some real reporting. Does your ass live in North Carolina? Do you like your Job in North Carolina? Then quit cutting our tarheel state down and move if you want to report meaningless cutting articles. Prunty says he is the best offensive lineman he has ever seen at Hargrave. That will give us at least 2 five stars next year and hopefully we have a good shot at another in Lattimore with the other 5 star being offensive stalwart 5 star James Hurst. Who wouldn't want to run behind 2 5 stars? I know like hell I would if I was Lattimore. Quit lookin' for trash to write on UNC. And remember dunce, We still wound up #1 in the ACC!
Butch's slash and burn policy towards recruits and players will rear its ugly head next year. NC high school coaches are not impressed with UNC's football program.
To the guy who made it personal...I hate when people burn the messenger. Bottom line, which I pointed out, is that UNC still had the best class in the league, at least according to Scout. Want reporting? I've talked to at least 100 coaches over the summer about this stuff--that despite the Observer cutting me from 40 to 20 hours because of the economy. Don't talk about something you know nothing about. Argue with the rankings if you want. Make a legitimate case.
You noted WF's seven-spot jump. Duke made the same gain in the re-rankings, and they did it from a higher spot in the first place. With as short a time as Cutcliffe has had to turn that program around, a top-45 class sure seems like a hell of a haul.
Ken Tysiac has covered the ACC in the Raleigh Bureau of The Charlotte Observer since 2003. He spent eight years in South Carolina covering Clemson, first with the Anderson Independent-Mail and later with The (Columbia) State. He graduated from Notre Dame in 1991.
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Smoke and mirrors will not prevent the fall from grace this year in Chapel Hill. It will be sad to watch UNC take a major step backwards this year after all the hype.
"fall from grace"?? this team has won 15 games in the last 3 seasons. Hardly grace worthy. UNC is still bringing great talent with back to back recruiting classes in top 20. O-line is certainly an area of worry this season but the rest of the team is solid to very good. And don't give me the WR inexperience BS, thats the easiest position to step into and contribute. Here's to a healthy season.
Yeah, it really sucks to have a top 20 recruiting class. They'd be better off to be number 41, just 4 spots ahead of Duke. Get a life!
UNC sux...always has
Watch out Skinney, here comes a 41-10 or a 2-0 vs Butch comment from an insecure wuffer
Stan old-son the fart! What are you ....senile and dumb? Is all you can do at a desk is plagarize off other peoples work! And what you copycat is just a dumb article to boot. It says nothing dumbass. We still get Farms back and his star will go from a 4 to a 5 star by January. Go talk to Hargrave coach Prunty and get off your lazy fat old ass and do some real reporting. Does your ass live in North Carolina? Do you like your Job in North Carolina? Then quit cutting our tarheel state down and move if you want to report meaningless cutting articles. Prunty says he is the best offensive lineman he has ever seen at Hargrave. That will give us at least 2 five stars next year and hopefully we have a good shot at another in Lattimore with the other 5 star being offensive stalwart 5 star James Hurst. Who wouldn't want to run behind 2 5 stars? I know like hell I would if I was Lattimore. Quit lookin' for trash to write on UNC. And remember dunce, We still wound up #1 in the ACC!
Who cares about the rival$ rankings? UNC-CH does. On paper, it's great! On the field, not so much. 4-8 might be all UNC musters this season. LOL!
41-10. butch is 0-2.
Oh the humanity of losing to Duke in Kenan! And to ECU! Tragic end to Visor Boy Jr.'s short stay in Chapel Hill. LOL!
Butch's slash and burn policy towards recruits and players will rear its ugly head next year. NC high school coaches are not impressed with UNC's football program.
To the guy who made it personal...I hate when people burn the messenger. Bottom line, which I pointed out, is that UNC still had the best class in the league, at least according to Scout.
Want reporting? I've talked to at least 100 coaches over the summer about this stuff--that despite the Observer cutting me from 40 to 20 hours because of the economy. Don't talk about something you know nothing about. Argue with the rankings if you want. Make a legitimate case.
Since Butch tossed off our best backup Sexton, we're in deep trouble. Especially since our OL is already toast. Who is minding this trainwreck?
Thanks for the great reports Stan!
You noted WF's seven-spot jump. Duke made the same gain in the re-rankings, and they did it from a higher spot in the first place. With as short a time as Cutcliffe has had to turn that program around, a top-45 class sure seems like a hell of a haul.
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