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Originally Posted by DJ's left nut
You misunderstand me, or perhaps I did a poor job of explaining.
We move from 11 in the conference to 8 based on the average 'strength of stars' ranking. Our average recruit is something like a 3.11 star; only nominally better than Vanderbilt and Kentucky. From a 'stars' standpoint, the quality isn't even really that spectacular.
Don't look at the rankings if you're wanting to defend this class. There are ways to do it, but it ain't with Rivals or Scout.
It's by pointing out that a guy like L'Damian Washington, 2-star recruit, is likely to be better when all is said and done than Bud Sasser or Jimmy Hunt, the 4-star studs we got in 2010. Or even that 4-star recruit we got out of Texas. Or yeah, by pointing out that Spoon was a 1-star 'athlete' that we simply coached into a stud.
But it's also fair to be honest - the class was underwhelming outside of DGB and Mauk. If you got the coaching staff in a moment of candor, I think they'd say the same.
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I think the staff really likes this class. I'm sure they'd have liked a couple more players, but there are some nice pieces in there.
We got studs at Guard/Tackle, QB, and WR. That alone makes it a nice haul.