Before the websites blew up, how did fans know how well their recruiting classes were? Was it simply based off players' performance/size?
How were recruits ranked before Rivals/etc came along?
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Forrest Davis put out a book each year with star rating and a top ten for the southeast and each state. He stopped a while back.
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While as I got older I didn't like how he did his ratings, his book was huge for us to get as youngsters as it was the ONLY info we could get on recruiting. As for Forrest I respect him but some of his ratings could be odd and off etc. and some felt like homerism but that is human nature so he's not that bad at all when I think of it.
But boy we LOVED seeing who Bama had committed and had the best shots at back in the early to mid 90's
Anybody old enough to remember Joe Terranova? He used to rank teams and recruits. I believe he had a subscription service.
Yep. I kept up with it through Forrest Davis. My wife always got me his magazine as a stocking stuffer on Christmas.
He also had 4 all-American teams at the very back of the magazine.
Yep Tider, for what the magazine cost it was well worth it. He also had every state in the South didn't he? For what little it cost it had a ton of info.
It was well worth it. I remember he would have a line underneath each guys name and measureables like "very fast, good closing speed and physical" or something like this and he would repeat some of the statements for each player. Referenced the mag constantly when we would get a commit and I even made a list of our commits with their star rating and overall average star rating. Thank goodness for the recruiting sites and Tidefans.
Some interesting stats from Forrest Davis picks:
http://www.saturdaydownsouth.com/2010/where-are-they-now/
Bama magazine also used to have recruiting snippets. Basically it would either list states or positions and give a little info on prospects. At that time most prospects stayed closer to home due to TV being limited to regions, so high school games were also a source. I sill have the Forrest guide with Emmit Smith as the SE high school player of the year.
I remember this also. One I also remember is he had Kevin Faulk as the POY (went to LSWho and played for the Pats in the NFL).
The one I remember most had Tee Martin as Alabama player if the year (he edged out someone from my High School), and the SE POY was Tim Couch.
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