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Analyzing Wisconsin's Path to its Best Recruiting Class Ever
In 2021, Wisconsin and former head coach Paul Chryst achieved the program's best-ever recruiting class in the internet rankings era. In just his first full cycle at the helm, Luke Fickell is now flirting with the record.The Badgers currently rank No. 18 nationally in the 247sports composite team recruiting rankings. In 2021, Chryst's group, headlined by 11 247sports four-star or five-star players, came in at No. 16 overall.
Could Fickell and company make history for UW again? Let's take a look at what needs to happen.
SENIOR SEASON BUMPS
The average player rating in 2021 was 89.31. As it stands now, UW's average commit rating sits at 88.67 with one less commit -- not quite a full point under, but significant enough.
247sports is currently grading many of UW's commits much lower than the composite. The composite has the Badgers with seven four-star prospects -- Mabrey Mettauer, Omillio Agard, Kevin Heywood, Grant Stec, Darrion Dupree, Dilin Jones, and Emerson Mandell. Of that group, only Stec and Jones are 247sports four-star recruits. That doesn't include Anelu Lafaele, who is a 247sports four-star recruit, but not in the composite.
Yes, the 247sports composite is what goes into the final rankings, but 247sports is holding back what could potentially be a better average player rating than 2021. Let's do the math.
To make it easier, let's just say nobody outside those seven gets a bump and the five 247sports composite four-star players that aren't four-stars in 247's rankings go up by one point each. That brings the UW commit average on 247sports to almost 88. Right now, it sits just above 87.
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