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

"Also Les Miles and company are better at evaluating talent than the scout, rivals etc. Not really a knock on them as they evaluate everyone (or try to cough cough Jr College) with a staff about the size of only a handful. Our coaches actually deeply dissect each players game."

Very well said. I told somebody the exact same thing today. I trust that our coaches know more about evaluating talent and what kind of player they want for our system than a some guy that works for Rivals or Scout. You just have to have faith in our staff and they have done nothing to give us a reason not to trust them up to this point.

Someone posted a thread a few weeks back of the reactions that were on this board when guys like Mo Claiborne, TM7 and guys like that committed. Everyone was like, Who? WTH are our coaches thinking? haha////Our staff has it under control