This year's class is actually pretty solid when you mix the grayshirts in.
This is one of my most hated GPC talking points
You get 25 players. When you put this 'class' with those guys, you look up and down, and you see 18 players thus far that look pretty solid. There are some high ceiling guys in there. All of them look like D1 athletes.
Maybe I'm missing something here, but if you think recruiting rankings are stupid (which I do, regardless of whether or not it's a tuck talking point), who cares how many stars a guy has? If you can look at film and go, "Yeah, I see where and how he fits. Good pull," then it's a good pull.
If you recruit a guy like Billy Cosh that makes no sense in your system, has no offers, and you have no idea why you offered him in the first place, you say, "Bad job."
Not all of Leach's classes were highly ranked either, but he killed it because he knew what he was looking for, and you could look at a Tech class and go, "Ah, yeah, that's a good class for him." Same with Patterson. If he pulled about thirteen running backs from Texas, you knew the defense was going to continue to kill it, regardless of the class ranking.
Why folks around here get hung up on football recruiting rankings makes no sense to me. It's not like there's some mechanism like AAU for football that allows the elite to play against each other a hundred times outside of high school games. It's all a crap shoot. I find it strange that such intelligent people (and I mean that sincerely) get so bent out of shape over this.
If Snyder recruits a bunch of non-qualifiers, get mad. If he recruits a bunch of kids at the last minute from Garden City or Hays, get mad. But what he's doing now is what he did when we built the DOD. I don't know why people hate on it so much.
