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Message: [QUOTE="tep624, post: 676625, member: 430"] The key in really getting a gauge for the quality of the class is looking at both the timing and the offers. AJ Long and Nas Howard were offered in March, maybe even earlier. Getting offers literally a year before signing day shows that they were priority recruits for the staff. Same goes for Moskal, Franklin, and Bennett, each of which were very early offers, March/April time frame. These are all guys that were at the top of the staff's board in their respective positions, in all likelihood, when they sat down to map out their recruiting strategy and who to target for this class. That's a very good thing, if you have faith in the staff's ability to identify talent. KJ Williams, Mavety, Hallmon, Ishmael, although they've had more attention from other peer and national recruiting programs, they also all fall into that boat of being very early offer guys, high on the original board. Have to remember too that Corey Cooper will be reclassified with this class once he hits prep school in the fall and he's arguably our most highly regarded recruit from last year. That will only help this class. Again, if you have faith in the staff to identify talent, you have to be excited with a verbal from a camp offer like Rodney Williams, a kid that the staff saw in person and still very early in the cycle. If we're at 10-12 recruits by the end of July, I think we'll be in a really good position and we just need to close down the stretch. I don't think we're taking the full 25 this year because of the amount of recruits we took last year and all the late adds (I count 24 when you exclude Corey Cooper) - not sure what the number is exactly but I'm thinking we'll be in the 20 range or so for this class. [/QUOTE]

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