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Rob DeVere said:
Weren't you doing cartwheels over Midnight Mel's recruiting efforts???
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Absolutely, because I was very happy that we finally had a decent to solid recruiting class. It was not great in the larger scheme of thing unless you were comparing it to our average recruiting over the last 10 years. It was a building block class that would hopefully launch us to the next level. Obviously the class had some warts at the bottom, but it had some quality at the top. Then he saw the writing on the wall and left us, and it all fell apart. We spent millions to keep Chev to save the class. What a waste.

Problems:
1) It was one class.
2) Most of our recruiting classes have been bad.
3) He had a good top of the class. Those players have now left. Now we are left with the skeleton crew of the middle and bottom of his class

We've been to one real bowl game since 2008 (COVID year gets the *). None of this is a surprise. Nor is it surprising that a heartbeat in recruiting gets people excited.
 
Meh. Numbers in isolation aren’t meaningful. Covid created a logjam in every program and so it would be interesting to see what percentage of P5 players who transferred ended up at P5 programs and how that varied by program. Are the Buff’s numbers far outside the norm?

Edit - I’m not saying any of our classes were good/great. I’m just not getting fired up about this tweet.
 
NW Buff said:
Meh. Numbers in isolation aren’t meaningful. Covid created a logjam in every program and so it would be interesting to see what percentage of P5 players who transferred ended up at P5 programs and how that varied by program. Are the Buff’s numbers far outside the norm?

Edit - I’m not saying any of our classes were good/great. I’m just not getting fired up about this tweet.
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This is fair, I would be interested to see who has lost the most players to P5 programs. The problem with CU is that since we have few legit p5 players, even if we are dead average in lost players, it's a higher percentage of our quality that has left.
 
Rice and Gonzo are the only losses from the top of that class. Harris likely isn’t going to amount to much at Arizona and Clayton is JAG who had to drop to hometown G5. We are kind of desperate to move on from Lewis at QB, Wray medically retired and Fauria hasn’t been able to see the field at a weak position.

I already analyzed MTs class in the Barzil thread and it’s actually shocking how mediocre it has truly turned out to be going into year 3. Hopefully Alvin Williams, Toren Pittman, MLC, Fauria and others step up this year.
 
The Alabaster Yak said:
Rice and Gonzo are the only losses from the top of that class. Harris likely isn’t going to amount to much at Arizona and Clayton is JAG who had to drop to hometown G5. We are kind of desperate to move on from Lewis at QB, Wray medically retired and Fauria hasn’t been able to see the field at a weak position.

I already analyzed MTs class in the Barzil thread and it’s actually shocking how mediocre it has truly turned out to be going into year 3. Hopefully Alvin Williams, Toren Pittman, MLC, Fauria and others step up this year.
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Sweet. Even better. The top of that class was mostly crap despite their ratings.
 
Darth Snow said:
Yea, that tweet told me two things: 1) our recruiting has been crap; and 2) we've lost probably half the legit P5 starters on the team this offseason.
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Rice, Bru, Perry, Blackmon, Shenault/Stanley were the legit P5 starters that left through the portal. I guess you could throw Miller in there too, but he was always hurt. They were big losses, make no doubt about it.

Sneed most certainly the biggest add. I would have preferred the staff being more urgent in the portal than a normal recruiting class. Let's hope that changes with the new staff.

Edit: Forgot Gonzo on this list
 
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Darth Snow said:
Absolutely, because I was very happy that we finally had a decent to solid recruiting class. It was not great in the larger scheme of thing unless you were comparing it to our average recruiting over the last 10 years. It was a building block class that would hopefully launch us to the next level. Obviously the class had some warts at the bottom, but it had some quality at the top. Then he saw the writing on the wall and left us, and it all fell apart. We spent millions to keep Chev to save the class. What a waste.

Problems:
1) It was one class.
2) Most of our recruiting classes have been bad.
3) He had a good top of the class. Those players have now left. Now we are left with the skeleton crew of the middle and bottom of his class

We've been to one real bowl game since 2008 (COVID year gets the *). None of this is a surprise. Nor is it surprising that a heartbeat in recruiting gets people excited.
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Rick George lost me forever with the bolded.
 
patebuff said:
Yeah. I give Karl somewhat of an out because of this. He seems to have hired a good staff now, but I am not sure it can overcome the issues at head coach
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It's certainly better than the **** show he started with. But is it a top 6 in the P12 staff?
 
Darth Snow said:
Yea, that tweet told me two things: 1) our recruiting has been crap; and 2) we've lost probably half the legit P5 starters on the team this offseason.
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This also goes to show that there are a fair amount of posters on this board who actually know something about recruiting and talent evaluation.
 
I have no idea what the ceiling was for Tucker's recruiting at CU would have been, but at the very least, he fully embraced recruiting. You knew where he stood, unequivocally.

You cannot really say the same for the other head coaches of the last two decades.
 
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