A couple of years ago, we ran an article titled "Naming VT's Top Gun
Recruiter," a piece that reviewed the players signed by various VT
assistant coaches from 1998-2003, then named Jim Cavanaugh as VT's "Top
Gun" recruiter, beating out Bryan Stinespring and Charley Wiles. The award
was an overall award, but I got to thinking, why not hand out the Top Gun award
every year? And why not make it strictly numbers-based?
For five years now, we have been producing TSL Pass articles "Inside the
Numbers: Ranking the Recruits" (click
here for the 2005 version) that use various ranking services (SuperPrep,
Rivals.com, and Scout.com) to assign numerical scores for each incoming recruit.
Recruits get a maximum of 15 points from each service and can score as high as
45 points total.