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Unfortunately, it may take better than that. As an example close to my own loyalties (except for the two years when coaches were headed out the door and not recruiting) Ole Miss's average recruiting ranking over the past ten years is 18.5 (247Sports). What I just saw on 247 is that Ole Miss is currently ranked 12th nationally, but that is in the bottom half of the conference. Rankings aren't everything, of course, but, on that metric, top 20 is aiming too low to be a contender for the conference championship.

False.

We won 21 games in 2 years with lower ranked classes.

Arkansas never gets accurately ranked in recruiting. The MS schools consistently outrank us but don't have much to show for it. Bielema certainly needs better talent than he had at Whisky but he's proven he can win with lower ranked classes than his competition.

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Posted by blacknblu

Member since Nov 2011

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Posted on 1/27/14 at 8:29 am to PorkSammich

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We won 21 games in 2 years with lower ranked classes.

Agreed - but we couldn't sustain that success.

IMHO, if we're going to have sustained success (especially under BBz model), we'll need to light up the recruiting trail.