That recruiting class was rough ridin' terrible.
It's so frustrating, because it reinforced the contrarian idea that stars are not good indicators of talent, while other schools who had similarly ranked recruiting classes did well with their talent.
One important thing to remember about that year was that there was a TON of chatter from insidery sources that Bill had the staff on lockdown preparing for the bowl game, and didn't let them go out and recruit as much as many thought that they should.