Im done with rankings. Unless you are recruiting at Bama, Georgia, or OSUs level they don’t fucking matter. Most of the guys we were excited most about haven’t sniffed the field except for the WR duo of McMillan and Odunze.
I think we've been tainted against recruiting rankings. UW finally started getting highly rated right before he coaching staff quit and then downgraded coordinators significantly. I think the UW experience with mostly highly rated guys failing is a bit of an anomaly.
I know people hate the TSIO crew here but the one principle they left us with that I think was really important, at least for evaluating Pete/Lake's recruiting was that it's less about getting highly recruited guys and more about getting your top targets. With that previous regime that mattered a lot because when they whiffed on their top targets they pretty consistently settled for the lowest hanging available fruit. I don't think this regime is as likely to do that, as evidenced by the much larger number of offers given out for one thing.