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[QUOTE="RF2044, post: 4503925, member: 40"]
Your assessment of both the recruiting class and the players we flipped via the portal is wrong.  That's what's dumb.

Jaeden Gould had [U]COMMITABLE[/U] offers from Alabama, USC, Penn State, Michigan, Notre Dame, Clemson Florida State, Texas -- to go along with dozens of offers from programs like Tennessee, Wisconsin, Oklahoma, A&M, Florida, and on and on.  Let that list sink in before you keep reading.

Jayden Bellamy had offers from Notre Dame, Clemson, Penn State, Ohio State, LSU, and Michigan -- to go along with dozens of offers from the likes of Oklahoma, Wisconsin, Tennessee, Nebraska, etc.

Braylen Ingraham -- the DL portal transfer -- had committable offers out of high school from Alabama [where he ended up], Georgia, Ohio State, Michigan, LSU, Clemson, and Texas to go along with Auburn, Florida, Oklahoma, Florida State, Wisconsin, and many others.

If we'd landed any ONE of these players out of HS, the entire fanbase would be doing back handsprings down Marshall Street.  We landed all three as portal transfers, but you want to focus on one we flipped from ODU as being indicative of the class being poor.

It's not.  We have several players who were unrated, including a late flip DE who is going to be an absolute monster.  And the aforementioned transfers -- who comprise a significant portion of the class -- aren't factored into the class rating by at least one prominent recruiting service that people often point to.

THOSE are the reasons why this looks like the lowest rated class of Dino's tenure on paper, when in actuality it is a solid class.
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