Rival's Math

I think this information may become useful in the next week and a half as I'm already seen a vast amount of revisionist history being conjured up.

Using Rivals since that is the source most have used in the past and it seemed to go back far enough to an ample sample of data, back to 2002, I went ahead and added aTm and Mizzou to the data since they are now in the SEC and recruiting is a national competition:

The format is Year, followed by Arkansas' National Rank, then rank out in the SEC (out of 14 teams). The SEC teams have their national rank in are in order.

2002: 25th 9/14
#2Tennesee, #3Georgia, #6Auburn, #11Carolina, #15LSU, #17Ms.State, #20Florida, #23aTm

2003: 29th 9/14
#1LSU, #2Florida, #6Georgia, #8Carolina, #9Ms.State, #10aTm, #11Auburn, #18Tennessee, #28 Mizzou

2004: 27th 6/14
#2LSU, #9Georiga, #10Florida, #19Tennessee, #20aTm, #24Bama

2005: 24th 8/14
#4Tennessee, #8aTm, #10Georgia, #13Auburn, #15Florida, #18Bama, #22LSU, #23Carolina

2006: 27th 9/14
#2Florida, #4Georgia, #7LSU, #10Auburn, #11Bama, #15Ole Miss, #23Tennessee, #24Carolina, #26aTm

2007: 31st 8/14
#1Florida, #3Tennessee, #4LSU, #6Carlolina, #7Auburn, #9Georgia, #10Bama, #27Ole Miss, #33 Mizzou


Nutt's average: National: 27.16 SEC: 8th (Actually came out to be 8.16)


2008: 36th 10/14
#1Bama, #3Florida, #7 Georgia, #11LSU, #16aTm, #20Auburn, #22Carolina, #25Mizzou, #29Ole Miss, #35Tennessee

2009: 16th 7/14
#1Bama, #2LSU, #6Georgia, #10Tennessee, #11Florida, #12Carolina

2010: 49th 12/14
#2Florida, #4Auburn, #5Bama, #6LSU, #9Tennessee, #15Georgia, #17aTm, #18Ole Miss, #21Mizzou, #24 Carolina, #38 Ms.State, #50 Kentucky

2011: 22nd 9/14
#1Bama, #5Georgia, #6LSU, #7Auburn, #12Florida, #13Tennessee, #18Carolina, #19Ole Miss

2012: 34th 12/14
#1Bama, #3Florida, #10Auburn, #12Georgia, #15aTm, #17Tennessee, #18LSU, #19Carolina, #29Vandy, #30 Ms. State, #31 Mizzou,

Petrino's average: National: 31.4 SEC: 10th

I didn't bother to add where the SEC teams finished in the rankings past Arkansas unless they were within a couple spots in the rankings, I only did so as withing a couple spots I think we could all agree is pretty interchangeable. While doing this the only thing that really stood out was the only team Petrino consistently out recruited in the rankings was Kentucky.

I only did this as I'm tired of reading that Long fricked us over in recruiting this year by either firing Petrino or by hiring JLS since everyone who says this is basing it off of these rankings. I believe by the time the final rankings are said and done after NSD we will see that Long's decision had no effect on recruiting as far as the rankings are concerned in comparison to Petrino's work on the recruiting trail.