Updated 2012 LSR Out

by Wescott Eberts (GoBR) on Jan 13, 2011 5:18 PM CST

With 2012 recruiting about to hit full swing as schools begin to hold Junior Days and kids get serious about making commitments, Ketchum just updated his 2012 LSR. It's the first update to take into account junior season performance and the new top player, Denton Ryan's Mario Edwards, isn't particularly a surprise if you saw my own 2012 Top 10 0 from back in October.

What is a surprise is that the seven touchdowns from Johnathan Gray in the state championship game weren't enough to keep him in the top spot in the rankings or ranked as the top running back in the state, as Spring Dekaney's Trey Williams now holds that honor. Apparently Ketchum didn't appreciate Gray's gritty performance against Lake Travis on a field in terrible condition after a ridiculous amount of rain that week. Against a defense that was eventually good enough to win another state championship. Um, okay.

I don't particularly care to parse the rest of the top 100 at the moment, so have at it yourselves in the comments, but it is worth noting that there are a number of new offensive linemen on the list and a bunch of linebackers ranked in the teens.

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Jonothon Gray

In my eyes, Gray is better than Malcolm Brown, Brandon Williams, and Trey Williams. But hey, I’m no scout, and tend to believe people who do the rankings know better than me! :)

In Mack Brown We Trust!

by Cyrus on Jan 13, 2011 5:41 PM CST reply actions

Malcolm Brown checks in at #5

No the other Malcolm Brown

I call bullshit! Bevo size!

by Ese-De-SA on Jan 13, 2011 5:49 PM CST reply actions

8 TDs, no?

I don’t have a problem with Gray not being number 1, but I don’t think there’s any comparison between Williams and him.

by GoHornsGo90 on Jan 13, 2011 5:58 PM CST reply actions

My thoughts on the shuffling would be

that if the list stays the same, the interest in it is kinda flat-lined. By moving Gray down, by moving other bodies around, there would be fresh interest, more traffic to the site, more chance to sell product.

Not to be cynical or anything.

It’s inexact anyway. Our staff’s ability to recruit many of the top folks off these lists the last five years — and what that led to in 2010 and, offensively, in 2009 — speaks louder than a ranking based on the sophomore and junior seasons in high school.

by edsp on Jan 13, 2011 6:18 PM CST reply actions

In fairness to the recruits

We didn’t always make the most of what we had either. I hope the players are excited as we are about the new coaching changes. This is a lot of freakin’ change.

As to your observations about the motivation behind not ranking Gray number 1 or even as the top RB, well, I agree with you completely. He clearly is no. 1 in the state but what fun is it to state the obvious.

by Wrangler86 on Jan 13, 2011 9:49 PM CST up reply actions

It's time for Harsin, Applewhite, Davis, Diaz, Wyatt, etc to evaluate the 2012 class.

With the exception of Davis and Applewhite (Davis got/chose great talent at Alabama) most of these guys didn’t have the resources and talent to choose from in their last job that they do now. I’ll guessing they’ll all have some fun with this class.

We have a 12th man and he's Bryan Harsin

by SpiritOfTheFedora on Jan 14, 2011 1:41 PM CST reply actions