Recruiting Rankings Vs. Results on the Field

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YodaBee

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After 4 recruiting classes, Chan Gailey's recruiting class rankings mirror our results pretty closely. We seem to finish with classes ranked from 35-55 under Gailey.

We end up 7-5 every year. With 117 Div I-A schools, we're in the middle of the recruiting pack. We end up with a middle of the pack record. We end up in the lowest bowls available.

This year our recruiting class is ranked 50-55.

IIRC, there are 28 bowls. 56 teams get invited. The Silicon Valley, MPC, and Emerald Bowls are reserved for teams that finish in the bottom tier of bowl eligible teams. Teams 45-56.

That's right where we recruit.

Whereas, Southern Cal, Texas and LSU recruit near the top. They finish near the top. Whereas, Ugag recruits in the Top 10 and finishes in the top 10.

Whereas, until we get a coach that can recruit blue chippers in reasonable numbers, we are never going to get out of this 7-5 year in and year out mode.

Some of our fans say that Gailey overachieves with our talent. I would propose that Chan gets exactly what you would expect from 55th percentile talent. 55th percentile results.

Please, don't fall into the trap of blaming this class on the NCAA. We have recruited like this every year under Chan The Man.
 
i think your analysis is a little off...

we are in the middle of the pack of all div 1 schools, but we are are in the bottom 3rd (at best) of bcs schools, which is who we are competing against.

however, the previous couple of classes under O'Leary were 2 of his best and highest ranked. i bet if you average them out - while giving more weight on the older classes since these are the ones that are playing more meaningful minutes - then we haven't really overachieved.
 
I think any team that consistently recruits in the

has a chance to complete for a NC with the right coaching and leadership in place, in more places than just at the top.

A lot of things have to happen.
 
by your logic, things are even worse than by mine

I think there are 66 BCS schools including Notre Dame. We finished 54th in recruiting. That means we are actually not in the middle of the pack. We're in the bottom 20 percent.

Given that non-BCS schools take many of the bowl slots, it's a miracle that we bowl at all.

YEAH! We're overachieving on the field after all.

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If it is that bad, then how the hell did we win 7 games this year? Hmmm... If we go by the recruiting rankings, then we should have been 9th in the ACC this year.. I think we were tied for 3rd.
 
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