re: Ranking SEC Recruiting Staffs

This is not really logical b/c it does not take into consideration the geographical location relative to the regions best talent. For instance, if you look at Arkansas and their natural recruiting base and compare that to Lsu, you can see that most years LSU can sign about 7-10 guys from Louisana that are 4 or 5 star players. Arkansas typically only has 2 or 3 of those types. So when you got 100 d1 prospects each year that grew up wanting to play for LSU, and only 20-25 from Arkansas that wanted to play for them, obviously LSU should be recruiting alot better regardless of how good the coach can recruit.

I think what you have to do is figure out a forumla for who gets the most out of the talent they are able to recruit in their geographical recruiting base? Who has the ability to find that 2 star that was not higly recruited and make him a first day draft pick and can do that often enough to compete against programs like LSU or Florida

the average year should have;

Florida
LSU
GA
Bama (although right now they'll be higher b/c of their coaches NFL and NC credibility)
Auburn ; all 5 of these reasonably close.
TN
SC
OM
MSU
AR
KT
V

That is based on talent raised within 200 mile radius of each program that grow up with the media exposure to that program. 90% of the kids that are 4 star talents that grow up in Louisana, or Georgia, or Alabama, like those programs, have grown up wanting to play for them and will if offered.