re: Article on Tom Herman

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could someone who knows how to do it, calculate what Tom Hermans recruiting class would have been ranked last year WITHOUT the 5 star recruit. That would give us a fairly good evaluation of how good a recruiter he actually is. If you subtract out the 5 star DT that he got by hiring his high school coach and with his brother already being on the team, how would the class rank?

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Per the 247 Class Calculator if you just remove Oliver, their score drops from 201.50 which was #36 to 184.05 which would have been 44, between Arizona and Oklahoma State,so still a pretty good class, especially for a non-P5 team.

ETA: Adding just another 2 or 3 star player to replace Oliver moves them one spot up, ahead of Arizona so it seems it is disingenuous to try and discredit the class as being highly ranked simply due to Oliver, rather than credit Herman for a good class.

So he has better talent and is losing

Nice