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[QUOTE="Don, post: 375295, member: 1846"]
I checked the 2009 Scout team recruiting rankings vs the top twenty teams this year. Its not a surprise to me that of the top twenty teams today only two had recruiting classes ranked below top 40 in 2009 and that is Kansas state and Oregon state. Stunning enough Kansas state class was ranked 112 in 2009(ten places behind SU).
 
I chose to look at 2009 because they would be true seniors or redshirt juniors and most likely the leaders of your team all things being equal.
 
If you want to see why say Syracuse is where they are and West Virginia is where is where they are look at Steadman Bailey, Tayvon Austin and Geno Smith in that class vs our best players from that class of Alec lemon(hurt part of year) , Justin Pugh(hurt part of year)and probably Zach Chibane.
 
I think that most of the time that recruiting rankings are a pretty good indicator of where you will be in the next few years. That is unless your Bill Synder and Chris Peterson. Snyder is a great coach who just finds guys that are ready to play his system.
 
There are also teams that work the other way and get great recruits then play mediocre football. I would bet though that if you have classes ranked in the top 40 consistently you will be ranked at times in the top twenty and most times will be ranked somewhere near where your recruiting classes are ranked about 80 percent of the time.
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