re: Ranking SEC Recruiting Staffs

Vol, you state this:

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Alabama, This staff has signed two Rivals.com Number 1 classes in two full recruiting years, hard to argue with results.

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Then follow it with this:

Ole Miss, Signed 37 prospects in Houston Nutt's first full class. Quanity is not always the answer though. The average star of those 37 players was 3.11.

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Here's why no one cares about the overrated
Bama recruiting. First they win the titles with basically smoke and mirrors. Saban intentionally
oversigns, something Miles and Meyer don't have to do, and in the process their real averages, the average of there exact needs, are usually higher.

For example the 2009 Rival averages:

Florida 16 players, 3.94 ranking
Bama 27 players 3.81 ranking
LSU 24 players 3.79 ranking

If you judge by last year, based on what
you're saying, UF has the best quality.

Furthermore, LSU got every important player (sans Jackson) they needed and many recruiting gurus think think LSU, not Bama had the better class.


Let's go a little further Now the 2008 rankingsand that other Bama #1 class:

Florida 22 players 3.82
Bama 32 players 3.72
LSU 26 players 3.58

We already know that 1/3 of Bama's so called recruiting class is already gone. LSU lost 4 of their players. Florida lost two. Florida easily had the better class.

And the 2007 rankings

Florida 27 players, 3.89
Bama 25 players 3.28
LSU 26 players 3.88

Anyway, the point is obvious. Note that LSU and
Florida never oversign.

Bama always does.


Florida hands down, has the better recruiting over based on your own words.


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So what about the Saban factor?

And since we all want to zero in on how supposedly great Saban is, note the following:

Since he has been there, Saban has recruited 84 Bama players--- total average 3.63

Meyer and Florida since Saban showed? In UF's case, try 65 players and a 3.88 average.

Much Higher than Saban.
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Miles and LSU since Saban showed up? In LSU's case, try 76 players and a average of 3.753 In fact, LSU's three (3) year average of 3.753 is almost identical to Bama's two #1 classes 3.765.

We're talking .0012 of a difference. Not enough to even make a single t-shirt.

It may be noted that Rivals averages of Bama
have been consistantly higher than any other recruiting group (name it, Scout, ESPN, Ludengill, Emsfinger, whoever/whatever) yet Bama is barely even with LSU and easily trails UF in every imaginable way over the last 2 and three year periods.

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[b]Like you stated, it's quality.

If so, then both Miles and Meyer are better than Saban.


Florida has way more, and LSU has virtually as much over the last two years, and LSU has more over Miles' tenure since Saban showed up in Gumpland.


Based on the same, Bama drops to #3.

1) Florida
2) LSU
3) Bama


And no amount of Rival bama arse kissing can change that.