We had some discussion in the FB 2016 thread about recruiting ratings and their validity. I've always thought recruiting rankings were slanted for traditional P5 members so my thought process was "How do our recruiting rankings compare to our results as measured by the Sagrin Rating. In order to be fair you need to look at a class and give it 4 years to mature.

The recruiting rankings also don't take into effect defections, drop outs etc. that fail to show up (as we all know Lyle had quite a few of those)

So:

Year Sagarin Ranking Rivals Recruiting Ranking
2015 75 57
2014 57 69
2013 67 71
2012 36 50
2011 30 49
2010 67 59
2009 8 60
2008 34 67
2007 19 90
2006 43 109
2005 95 95
2004 65 146
2003 96 92
2002 59 101

Source for numbers:

Sagarin Ratings: http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/sports/sagarin.htm

Recruit Ratings (This if for 2014 use drop down for year):
http://sports.yahoo.com/footballrecruiti...14/all/all


My Takeaways:

1. I already knew this but the program has come a long way quickly.

2. I also knew this but Brian Kelly was amazing for UC, his #8 Sagarin Rating was achieved with a senior class rated 109th best

3. TT is under-performing compared to the other coaches (I suspect this is what the board will focus on)

4. Either the recruiting ratings are grossly inaccurate or UC has had vastly under-rated classes.

Have at it

As has been said numerous tines in here through the years, Dantonio needs to get a hell of a lot of credit for his talent evaluation.