I'm still mid-development on my all-P5 website so I'm missing the fancy charts and graphs that I usually post (for now). But I do have some interesting things to post, mostly that I have a bunch of P5 rankings to compare Purdue's numbers to.
There are still some graphical things under the works so please excuse any mess.
I have Purdue as the 8th-best class in the Big Ten, 35th overall. The "Class Points" that I base this on is heavily tied to the likelihood of players getting drafted based on their average rating, so this isn't me just going "Oh, you're a 3-star player, you're worth... 30 points" or whatever. Purdue's average rating per player is a bit less impressive, but not worrying. The amount of players we're taking helps make up for that, and using the average ratings of draft picks and Purdue's performance in that statistic I am projecting 1.47 draft picks in this class right now, so likely 1 or 2 which tracks with most programs of our level.
And just look at those beautiful shades of colors. (I spent a dumb amount of time perfecting the color scaling from green to red based on ranking.)
Gilbert takes the top ranking in our class which used to belong to Rickie Collins. Our top 4 recruits are actually all defensive linemen which is pretty nuts. There's no reason to think there is a new David Bell or George Karlaftis in this class, but the floor of Purdue's classes continues to rise. I should be able to show this with a chart soon.
The last 5 years of Purdue classes doesn't reveal much we didn't already know. 2019 was our best class which obviously included Bell and Karlaftis, and 2021 was our worst on-paper which is probably why we switched recruiting coordinators. 2023 ranks about where we were in 2020 and 2022.
Breaking down Purdue's P5-wide rankings by position reveals that we have a really good defensive line class. With only 1 offensive lineman that prints out some ugly rankings there, but Ethan Fields is ranked about the norm for Purdue under Brohm so those other ugly red colors have more to do with Purdue only having 1 of them.
A new stat I'm deciding to publish, just grouping positions together by offense/defense. Purdue's defensive recruiting is notably higher-rated than Purdue's offensive recruiting, mostly due to the army of defensive linemen we have committed right now.
Purdue's cleaning up the state of Indiana, which is actually dragging our average below some schools that only have 1 guy who is rated like 3.650 or whatever, but Purdue should be really happy with its in-state recruiting in this class. Other than that we have multiple guys in Florida and Ohio because basically everyone should be recruiting those states. But we're back in Kentucky for the first time in what feels like a while, really since Brohm turned down the Louisville job.
Here's a good example of where the color is actually more important than the rank: Purdue is 25th in average stars per player in the Midwest, and 46th in the South. But both are close to the same shade of yellow. This is because basically everyone recruits the South while far less schools recruit the Midwest, so Purdue being 25th in the Midwest and 46th in the South are actually near-equivalents.
(Any school I don't have a logo for yet gets a Baby Yoda picture instead for now...)
Like I said, Purdue did really well with cleaning up the state but there were some annoying misses towards the top of this list, particularly with some O-linemen. But since they're going to Iowa maybe they'll wind up at Purdue anyway, lol.
I haven't dove into conference comparisons too much yet, but I do have this drawn up for each year. This tracks for most seasons, the SEC recruits about 0.200 stars above the other conferences on average. But the Big Ten being in 4th place is kind of a down year for the conference, we usually do finish 2nd.
There are still some graphical things under the works so please excuse any mess.
I have Purdue as the 8th-best class in the Big Ten, 35th overall. The "Class Points" that I base this on is heavily tied to the likelihood of players getting drafted based on their average rating, so this isn't me just going "Oh, you're a 3-star player, you're worth... 30 points" or whatever. Purdue's average rating per player is a bit less impressive, but not worrying. The amount of players we're taking helps make up for that, and using the average ratings of draft picks and Purdue's performance in that statistic I am projecting 1.47 draft picks in this class right now, so likely 1 or 2 which tracks with most programs of our level.
And just look at those beautiful shades of colors. (I spent a dumb amount of time perfecting the color scaling from green to red based on ranking.)
Gilbert takes the top ranking in our class which used to belong to Rickie Collins. Our top 4 recruits are actually all defensive linemen which is pretty nuts. There's no reason to think there is a new David Bell or George Karlaftis in this class, but the floor of Purdue's classes continues to rise. I should be able to show this with a chart soon.
The last 5 years of Purdue classes doesn't reveal much we didn't already know. 2019 was our best class which obviously included Bell and Karlaftis, and 2021 was our worst on-paper which is probably why we switched recruiting coordinators. 2023 ranks about where we were in 2020 and 2022.
Breaking down Purdue's P5-wide rankings by position reveals that we have a really good defensive line class. With only 1 offensive lineman that prints out some ugly rankings there, but Ethan Fields is ranked about the norm for Purdue under Brohm so those other ugly red colors have more to do with Purdue only having 1 of them.
A new stat I'm deciding to publish, just grouping positions together by offense/defense. Purdue's defensive recruiting is notably higher-rated than Purdue's offensive recruiting, mostly due to the army of defensive linemen we have committed right now.
Purdue's cleaning up the state of Indiana, which is actually dragging our average below some schools that only have 1 guy who is rated like 3.650 or whatever, but Purdue should be really happy with its in-state recruiting in this class. Other than that we have multiple guys in Florida and Ohio because basically everyone should be recruiting those states. But we're back in Kentucky for the first time in what feels like a while, really since Brohm turned down the Louisville job.
Here's a good example of where the color is actually more important than the rank: Purdue is 25th in average stars per player in the Midwest, and 46th in the South. But both are close to the same shade of yellow. This is because basically everyone recruits the South while far less schools recruit the Midwest, so Purdue being 25th in the Midwest and 46th in the South are actually near-equivalents.
(Any school I don't have a logo for yet gets a Baby Yoda picture instead for now...)
Like I said, Purdue did really well with cleaning up the state but there were some annoying misses towards the top of this list, particularly with some O-linemen. But since they're going to Iowa maybe they'll wind up at Purdue anyway, lol.
I haven't dove into conference comparisons too much yet, but I do have this drawn up for each year. This tracks for most seasons, the SEC recruits about 0.200 stars above the other conferences on average. But the Big Ten being in 4th place is kind of a down year for the conference, we usually do finish 2nd.
