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[QUOTE="TheCusian, post: 2493099, member: 2585"]
Fair enough. I'll concede that the numbers have risen.

- That ranking of 50 or of 25 is based on the pts system (which factors in size of class). Unless you manually went through and re-ranked all the teams every year based on avg recruit - your numbers are skewed a bit. Lots of noise.

- Choosing 13 years is advantageous to your argument. Your data suggests a 4 pt raise across the entire database over 13 years. What folks are excited about here is the trend in the last 4 - but more importantly this last class, compared to the last:

2015: #57, 82.69
2016: #62, 83.45
2017: #54, 83.57
2018: #51, 85.58

Another 2 point jump in 2019 would put us in your top 25, regardless of the slow overall rise in rankings.

- This class is pretty small, comparatively. 19 kids (avg of 85.58) and ranked #51 is pretty good. In 2010, we signed 33(!) and ranked #60 with an avg rank of 82.70. In 2017 we signed 26 and ranked #54 with an avg rank of 83.57. Had we signed an average sized class of 20-25 and maintained our avg, we'd be in the 30-40 range pretty easily.

That's all to say - good point on the slow and steady rise of the numbers. But I'd be careful attributing too much to that. Lot's of signs that we're rising.
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