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Message: [QUOTE="tep624, post: 2469643, member: 430"] Technically had 3 but his first class in 2013 he had about 5 weeks to finish after Marrone bailed and that class was already shaping up to be Marrone’s worst. Lots of whiffs and lightly recruited JUCO’s. He was fired before completing the 2016 class. I have a hard time criticizing him for that 2013 class. I look at Baber’s abbreviated 2016 class as more a miracle than a benchmark. After the 7-6 season and Shafer’s Staff closing on that 2014 class, McDonald looked like the real deal when it came to recruiting. Then most of the top half of that class imploded along with both QB recruits and the fan base turned pretty quickly on him. Even so, Ishmael, Franklin and Slayton were all heavily recruited and made a mark on the program. [/QUOTE]