insult at all. Temperature gauge on a profile usually refers to the recruit's interest in the school. Meaning that the school has made actual offers, has generated a lot of interest in the player, has paid graphic designers to create individualized, player-based marketing campaigns in order to sway that specific recruit to their school (about 10 Beck-specific examples from each of those schools below- search VTVoice), and calls or texts said player every single week that school is allowed to during that contact period. Schools actually have to receive permission from the recruit to go to all of this trouble, and then generate forests worth of weekly mailings and love notes, etc. ("we love you! Come to our school!")

From 247, one of the primary recruiting sites:

"The interest level -- warm, hot, cool, etc. -- should be viewed as the player's interest level in going to that particular school. You can assume that most schools listed on a prospect's profile page are interested in signing the player."

When you see that a recruit has finally decided between all of their offers, it usually lists that chosen school as hot and the rest cool.

Again, not trying to insult you, just sharing info. If you think of it this way, why would a recruiting site go to all the trouble of generating all of these lists of schools that are NOT interested in any of these players? That makes no sense. Why would almost all schools generate initial interest and then change their minds about a player and go cool, but one is hot on him? What does that one school know that the others don't?

It's safe to say that Chuck Beck has generated a lot of interest (well at least on this site- whoa) and offers beyond VT. Neither you nor I have any experience to judge whether or not that 16 y.o. will become a great football player. In a prototypical offense and OL that needs straight ahead, quick RBs who don't need to catch a lot of passes, I'm sure he'll do just fine at a number of D1 schools. May even be the next John Riggins, running behind the Hogs!








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