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[QUOTE="SoBristol, post: 187710, member: 485"]
It is a truism that you don't know everything about a recruiting class until you see the results 3 years later.  
 
That doesn't mean you can't make some judgments or can't assess how you did compared to rivals or whether Marrone is doing better in some areas and not so great in some others.    Coaches always know when they find a gem (McNabb, Tim Green, Art Monk), they know whether they landed the linemen they wanted or had to reach, they know whether they won head to head battles with rivals (or with Akron).   They don't have to look at "how many stars" to know whether they landed the next Rob Moore or Deleone Carter or Joe Morris (they didn't).  
 
For sure, GROB did better in recruiting impact skill players.  His guys (Carter, Hogue, Bailey, Lemon, Taj Smith, Sales) had early impact; Nassib contributed as an RF.  Marrone's skill guys have done almost nothing (Gulley and who else?).   The best we can say is that we don't know about Smith, West, Wales.  
 
Marrone has done much better in touching the JUCO ranks (and Hofstra) for help, mainly in the OL and DL.   GROB found Taj Smith and not much else.   Marrone has brought in 3 or so every year (but no playmakers).
 
GROB's classes lacked depth compared to what Marrone has done.  Granted, this is a harder one to prove -- as several of GROB's guys left or got run off -- and is largely based on what we will see this year in the two deep.   If you look at the top 5 guys in each class, you can easily see GROB did just fine; if you look at his bottom 10, you know there were lots of misses.    
 
GROB went more for speed (not so much size); Marrone's classes have more beef.    
 
Overall, are the rankings a lot different?    Not a lot -- but we are becoming more physical, and starting to build decent depth.
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