I will say that we only have two real reach 3* kids, kids who otherwise wouldn't be in the SEC or P5. Butters landed 6 to 8 each year.
And there's your difference. There's only two where I'm not sure what the game plan is. Another that looks like he's here to woo a coach with some guys coming up with real talent. The other thing to consider is that there are still quality guys that didn't sign today at our two positions we didn't do well on today.
Young, Handy and Pickering are all unsigned, all top 250 and all from Mississippi. Talent pool is a little thinner at true NT but I don't think we're going to be able to run a 3-4 until at least another class of LBs that are as good as the one it looks like we have coming in, provided Black can make the grade. There are good safeties that didn't sign today, and the staff needs to throw the house at them. This isn't a great class - but we're not a great program either.
Unless we do what Georgia and Bama do we'll never be like them. I know we don't agree on what's going on there - but from my perspective I hope we never do. We can be like Clemson and Oregon though - if we can ever prioritize football. It's easy to say our coaches suck at recruiting but with the exception of perhaps Arkansas, there is not a team above us right now in the rankings that does not have
vastly more to offer the football recruit from a college experience perspective than we do. We do agree on how THAT happened.