This is exactly the kind of short-sighted thinking that has your program stuck in the mud. You're celebrating silent commits like they've already won the Peach Bowl. I've been watching this sport since George Welsh was building something real here in Charlottesville, and let me tell you, silent commits mean about as much as a promise from a used car salesman. We learned that the hard way back in the late 90s when a couple of those "silent" guys ended up at Virginia Tech on signing day. You build a program with development and heart, not with internet rumors and NIL handouts. The obsession with the composite ranking is a new disease. Back in our heyday with Shawn Moore and Herman Moore, nobody was checking star ratings on a website. They were checking who showed up on campus, put in the work for four years, and played for the jersey on the front. Your "major bump" is just paper hype until those kids sign on the dotted line and, more importantly, stick around for more than a season before hitting the portal. That's not building a program, that's renting one.
