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[QUOTE="billsin01, post: 283471, member: 837"]
A few points:
 
1) I'm generally with you that it would be nice to have some recruits right now and it's nice to land some higher profile kids once in a while.
 
2) This is DM's third class -- and that's not semantics. He literally had weeks to put his "first class" together.
 
3) I've said this multiple times but recruiting rankings tend to follow success, not predict it. Our "best classes" were the ones we reeled in toward the end of the McNabb era (98-ish). They were on board for the beginning of our decent. Had you trusted the recruiting rankings you would have predicted a step up towards winning double-digits consistently.
 
4) Recruiting is absolutely inexact science. Even if you put credence in the star system or offers or film, etc., you have no idea what the kid will do on campus (strength and conditioning, work on technique, grasp of the playbook, academics, off-field incidents, homesickness...).
 
My only point is that it's fun to talk recruiting but worrying too much about it (unless you are personally scouting players) is fruitless. Get excited when we land a big name type. Get bummed when we lose one. But don't lose sleep over it.
 
It was literally only maybe six or seven years ago that everyone was complaining that Penn State was taking kids too early and not landing the big fish at the end. That was what was blamed for their struggles. The bottom line is that no one knows much of anything when it comes to objectively ranking these kids and classes against one another.
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