Uh, I guess I don't get it. By 247 our current class is ranked, what, 28th? Does this not matter? I'm serious when I ask this question, I don't want to don the rose-colored glasses. What is it you're saying, when comparing past recruiting finishes with where we are today?
Class rankings are based off a volume of points rather than an average. So, the bigger the class is, the more points you get and the higher you are. The average ranking of the players doesn't matter. We still have the worst average rating in the conference according to 247. There isn't a BCS team in the rankings below us with as many or more commits and out of the top 50, on CMU has as many or more commits.
I agree that the real comparison will be player development, that was clearly CPR's downfall. IMO the thing that to this point would put this staff above the last is that they are getting the kids they want early. CPR was piecing together his classes during the season or a lot of the time in January and February. That tells me this staff has a better idea of exactly what kind of kids they want. CPR was notorious for finishing off classes with kids that he could get, not necessarily kids that fit into a system. Another big difference is the positions this staff has recruited, they have already brought in 11 or 12 lineman, in less than two classes.
All true but the last staff had a different timeline. It was stupid and it wasn't the right way to do it, IMO, but I don't know if there's a guy in this class that the last staff couldn't have gotten just based on the caliber of a recruit they are.
I hope no one takes all of this wrong because I love what this staff is doing. We aren't going to go grab a handful of four stars. You go out, trust evaluations on guys you can get and if you like them, get them here. Then you work on the Kam White's of the world. If you get a couple of them, great, but it's going to take a lot of time to get to a point where you are pulling in numerous highly rated and recruited prospects.