Good article on this year's class -- the last two classes are similarly ranked

Jeez. I avoided the "did they lie about...." thread, so I didn't realize Davis was THAT intentional about misleading LSU. If you don't want to go, don't go, but come on.

rossman -

Excellent link and read. I've been arguing the class is not highly ranked nationally because LBers, TEs and SNPs (which are the primary strengths of this class) aren't gaudy like Top 5 QBs, RBs, WRs, OTs and CBs are - the article you linked seems to illustrate that there is little difference in quality between 2011 and 2012. Jeremy Hill notwithstanding (and he is not consistently counted in this class), we accomplished the ranking we have without an anchor (like Gunner Kiel, Landon Collins, Mario Edwards or Tracy Howard would have been - just getting 1 of those players we missed on would have made this class #7 or so, even losing Davis).

my point exactly. We only need about 10 horses in each class to EVER contribute. Ergo, I look at how many 4+ stars we get as a rough indicator of the likelihood that we can get 10 horses, realizing that 3 stars and below will sometimes be among those 10 horses. By that standard, which is close to what is being said in this article, we be good!