Grading the recruiting class

If only you had decided not to post instead of actually posting ?

If only there was a Michigan fan-based blog where we could have a fun discussion about how we feel about the class, during a period of time where not many other athletic things are happening.

To be fair, the national services that grade and rank players do not take into account a particular school's needs and whether a player fits the system. It appears that TK is trying to grade against Michigan's needs. So your snark is not just obnoxious, but ill-founded.

There are so many low-effort posts on this board all the time and you are criticizing this one?  Come on.

OP did fine and this was worthwhile to post.

This is both mean-spirited and obtuse, given that the OP engages in his own (IMO valuable) evaluation. 

Two things in relation to other sources' evals, though. If we are, more or less, being ranked as the number ten class nationally, and there are 350 (?) some-odd D1 schools, then I think that could be seen to nudge this class into A- territory in aggregate. And it's always worth pointing out that classes must be judged through time, especially in cases where you're already in a strong position with players on board. Nowhere does this strike me as clearer than in the case of QB for us, where you have two players stacked, a future recruit who would slot in perfectly if all goes well. Here, taking a gamble on an unpolished but promising prospect makes all the sense in the world, and will never pump up your overall grade.  

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Yeah, TK is a pretty tough grader. A ranking of 9/130 in FBS means we are in the top 7% of teams, which would translate to about a 93% on a test. Depending on the teacher, that is usually either an A or an A-. 

I think little Jimmy Harbaugh will be complaining to his mom later this afternoon, and TK should be anticipating a strongly worded email and a request for a parent-teacher conference tomorrow... 

There's a very good chance that multiple OL recruits from this class will be All Big Ten.

I agree with this. Last time we had a good secondary class was 2016. I believe this one is better.

You round them down for asking right?

Exactly this. And it's usually after you've already "rounded up" to a B+...

When I was TA at Berkeley most of the Biology students were pre-med and super concerned about their grades. 1st quiz of the semester I received twenty-something requests to regrade the quiz (some with full writeups as to why they deserved at least 3.8 points out of four instead of 3 out of four, etc.). 

There were ~50 people in the class.

So, I did nothing until the following week. I got up in front of the class, and said "here's the deal. I will regrade your quizzes if you want me to, but I'm not regrading just the question you didn't get full points for. I regrading the entire quiz/test/assignment from top to bottom. It is a better than 50:50 chance you'll end up with a worse grade." Many complained to the prof., but I had cleared this with him before hand and he LOVED the idea.

No one asked me to regrade anything for the next year.

Can't move 100% to 2023 just yet.  Need to go after a few for the traditional signing date in February.  Beat UGa

Loved Harbaugh’s line about Grant: with him we finally have a lineman as big as his coach (Nua). 

You won’t be disappointed. True pocket passer and can navigate in the pocket. By all accounts he’s a great leader. I was at the King vs Cass game in September, D. Moore passed for 363, 5 TD and no ints.