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Message: [QUOTE="tep624, post: 366618, member: 430"] Agreed. My biggest complaint of those in our fanbase complaining about the sheer # of recruits that we have currently lies with two things that have been mentioned ad nauseum here: 1) Myles Hilliard is part of this class, even though he is at Milford. He was a consensus 3 star last year and only adds to the quality of the class - we have 9 recruits. 2) We are taking a smaller class this year, probably in the 18 range or so, and it isn't necessarily fair to compare our recruiting on a sheer number of recruits basis. Many of the ACC programs on that list are going to take a full complement of 25, or more. [B]Most of them are going to need 8-10 commits to complete their classes out, just like we do. [/B] Looking at average and average alone, our current recruiting class of [B]9 [/B]puts us at an average of 2.78 - which would be 3rd currently in the Big East, and 9th in the ACC (10th if you include Notre Dame). Points are not a fair metric because it discards the fact that some schools are not going to take as many recruits as others. Nationally, a 2.78 average ranking puts us at #62 nationally. (This needs a disclaimer as well since there are a number of schools immediately ahead of us with a 3 average ranking that have numerous NR recruits in their class that aren't affecting their overall average - once rivals gets around to ranking those players, most likely with most falling in the 2 star range, those schools will sink and we'll move ahead of them. Taking that into consideration, we're really in the upper 50's if you look at it from an average ranking perspective). Stanford currently has 6 commits and is ranked by Rivals as a class at #64 - would you rather have their recruiting class - which looks like a quality class - or UCONN's 15 commit class, which is ranked at #56 and is one of the worst recruiting classes from a quality of ranking perspective on paper of the BCS schools... (My analysis is all per Rivals current rankings) [/QUOTE]

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