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Sports => Snyder's Electronic Cyber Space World => Topic started by: LesMiserables on August 21, 2008, 10:38:45 AM
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Someone on a long thread told me I was wrong in posting that the people who usually populate the top twenty five recruiting rankings also usually end up in the top final rankings. His point seemed to be that Prince's recruiting of so many "diamonds in the rough" [who usually turn out to be cubic zirconiums] was as good a strategy as any.
Following is a list of teams who were in Phil Steele's top twenty five recruiting classes multiple times over the past five years:
USC, Florida, LSU, OU, Texas, ND, Tennessee, OSU, Michigan, Georgia, Auburn, Penn St., Alabama, Miami, FSU, Clemson, UCLA, Cal, aTm, Nebraska, VaTech, Virginia, Oregon, Wisconsin, South Carolina
That's 25 and no one would be surprised to see any of these teams REGULARLY in the top twenty five ASSUMING good coaching. There are two others who were in the top twenty five at least once and should probably be in there multiple times due to the recruiting advantage of their location:
Washington, Mizzou
You may challenge for a division championship occasionally if you don't get those kind of recruiting classes, but I would postulate that you certainly won't do so on a regular basis.
Don't give me the Bill Snyder example....if his classes had the advantage of giving juco's full credit they would have been among the top classes.