I was kicking around on Scout yesterday, and found this nice feature. 4-year recruiting ranking based on
current roster.
https://247sports.com/Season/2018-Football/CollegeTeamTalentComposite/Tennessee is....15th! Way higher than I think most if not all on here would think. Let me help us all be succinct.
1. I realize recruiting ratings are not perfect.
2. I think this definitely helps show that our talent is underdeveloped.
3. It doesn't factor in how appropriate the recruiting is....we have a surplus of skill players on offense and a lack of OL, and that's deadly.
4. Keep in mind that our schedule has been in the top ten for four years.
5. I don't think our four-year record is much worse than that of Junior, who is near us in the rankings.
6. But overall, would be interesting to compare this to the four-year record. I guarantee you Vols would suffer in that comparision, but maybe not as much as we might think. And SOS should be factored in also.
But to my main point....yes this is definitely more talent than Dooley left, and is not a bad amount of talent, even given all the caveats I list above in 1-3.
You can click on the Vol link and see how all our current roster was rated when recruited. Interestingly Richmond was only a 4-star on Scout. I think Scout got it right.