re: Are we really losing ground in recruiting or have our players been undervalued?

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The overall opinion is that I could give a frick what our class ranking is, as long as we're competing for SEC titles.

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I would tend to agree with you but last year SI had an interesting take on the NC hunt when asked why it was picking Bama over LSU. It simply came down to a recuiting class rating. When a team has pulled the top class in three of five years it has resulted in multiple NC's for that team. It happened at USCw,Fla, and now Bama.

So beware. Bama pulled another top level class last year and will do probably as good this year. What that means for us is a greater degree of difficulty to make the NC hunt as long as we have to keep playing those SOB's who are getting a higher rated class than us.