RHN1975

Don't sweat this one at all. Absolutely not going to hurt. Also one big piece of advice for everyone. Take the player rankings with a grain of salt. There is no way Extra Innings or FloSoftball can possibly rank the players. They rely on the coach, parents, or whoever to basically tell them about the girls. While the players at the top are outstanding athletes and will be great at the next level there are 30 more like them ranked 200 spots lower because they do not play for a certain team or coach. I am sure some of yall reading this have been through the travel ball world and know what I am talking about. This goes on in everything from these rankings to girls commitments. Some programs will show you all of these DI's signees and you are impressed but then you find out they are signing for $500 a year in aid and they are responsible for the rest. A year or two later they have transferred to a mid-major or DII so they can actually get playing time. Sadly too many girls are impacted by adults egos and make the decision that looks best on IG or Twitter instead of the best decision for themselves.

One thing to remember with this class is the recruiting rules changes. This is the first class that was really impacted by the elimination of early recruiting. There are girls all over the country that committed before the new rules and then spent two years not being able to really talk to their future coaches or going through coaching changes. Especially in her case they haven't had the chance to build a relationship with new coaches such as Dean and a lot can change. The first day they could really talk was on September 1st. It also could have been the fact AU decided another player suited their needs better. When you are dealing with partial scholarships it could have boiled down to AU needing to offer less money in order to pick up a couple of other girls at positions of need. AB is an absolute stud and has been since she was 8yo so there is no telling what is going on.

I refuse to bash 16yo girls but we have a couple of commits I am scratching my head about but I guess thats the recruiting world. There are some very good athletes from good travel programs that never saw any interest from AU even though they were interested.