re: What is going on with South Carolina's class?

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Now I am seeing why Muschamp is not getting his team to recruit at a higher level since McClendon went to Oregon.

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I guess this is fair if your biggest indicator for recruiting ability is solely ratings.

McClendon started out as RB coach for UGA from '09-'13, and was the primary recruiter for Crowell, Gurley, Marshall, Michel, and Chubb. However Thomas Brown became the RB coach in 2014 for 2 years of Gurley's and Marshall's career and all of Michel's and Chubb's career.

Fast forward to McClendon as the WR coach and offensive coordinator for us and you see most of his recruits either didn't work out or it's still TBD if they will work out. The guys (all WRs) he was the primary recruiter for and actually coached here are:

OrTre Smith - .9413 rating with career stats of 42 rec/ 420 yds/ 4 TDs in 16 GP over 3 years. Has only played 8 games in the last 2 years because of rare injury.

Josh Vann - .9388 rating with career stats of 37 rec/ 289 yds/ 1 TD in 8 GP over 2 years. Broke his hand last year and hasn't been able to beat out guys ahead of him.

Chad Terrell - .8818 rating with career stats of 7 rec/ 76 yds/ 0 TD in 5 GP over 3 years. Terrible injury history hear too starting in HS.

Randrecous Davis - .8780 rating with career stats of 12 rec/ 123 yds/ 1 TD in 9 GP over 4 years. Injury and ability issues here.

Korey Banks - .8519 rating with no WR stats recorded in 1 GP over 2 years. Was moved to DB for a year and transferred.

Darius Rush - .8506 rating with no WR stats recorded in 0 GP over 2 years. Was moved to DB last year.

TyQuan Johnson - .8487 rating and my personal favorite recruit for McClendon. This guy is offered a scholarship and signs an NLI to play for us in 2017, but doesn't qualify. We do the same thing in 2018 and he still doesn't qualify. We do the same in 2019 and he does qualify which is good but now we've used 3 scholarships on a average rated guy for 0 years of service only for McClendon to leave his 6 figure position coach job here and not coach the guy he wanted very badly.

Sorry for ranting, but I do not thank McClendon at all for his time here other than getting us good recruits that he didn't end up coaching.

So moral of the story is Oregon should be fine with McClendon if they want him to recruit guys from the SE that he doesn't have to coach, but that relies on having good position coaches which I believe Oregon does. "BMac" as we used to call him down here has enough of a repeating history of not developing players with talent to be used as negative recruiting against him.

So best of luck to Oregon with him.