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Originally Posted by MililaniBuckeye
Uh, no...you DON'T have a top-5 recruiting class every year.
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This is true and false. I keep a speadsheet with recruiting rankings on hand for when this topic comes up, and counting the 5 recruiting classes which compose this current Wolverine team, 3 of the 5 recruiting classes were consensus Top-5 ('01, '04, '05), the 'down' years usually still result in Top-10 or 15 ranks. I've only included the last 10-years (which also cover all of Carr's full recruiting classes), but there was also a #1 ranked class following the '97 championship -- a championship Carr won with players in Moeller's highly ranked '93 and '94 classes, by the way.
I think the firelloydcarr site admin is half-right. There's definitely a trend in AA with the lack of development with these players (this years' lack of depth at UM is largely why they're 2-2). UM has 17 drafted players to
OSU's 30 in the last 4 years alone. Those players who have been drafted were ones that arrived in the '98-'01 classes (Mo C is the only drafted '02 exception). UM's recruiting classes were 1, 8, 13, 2;
OSU's were NR, 3, 7, 14. So UM has moved approximately half the amount of talent to the NFL despite having incoming high schoolers who were routinely ranked higher than their
OSU counterparts. This stat will actually take a gigantic hit this year, particularly with
OSU having as many as four first round picks (Hawk, Carp, Mangold -- all on Mel Kiper Jr's Top-25 'Big Board' -- and Holmes).
Of course, 'recuriting ranks' are entirely subjective based on whether or not you believe a guy like Tom Lemming, so take all this for what it's worth:
2005
Hodge ......... 5
Lemming ....... 4
Rivals ........ 6
Insiders ...... 2
2004
Hodge ......... 5
Lemming ....... 4
Rivals ........ 5
Insiders ...... 5
2003
Hodge ......... 7
Lemming ....... 7
Rivals ........ 17
Insiders ...... NR
2002
Hodge ......... 10
Lemming ....... 8
Rivals ........ 16
Insiders ...... 9
2001
Hodge ......... 2
Lemming ....... 2
2000
Hodge ......... 13
Lemming ....... NR
1999
Hodge ......... 8
Lemming ....... 8
1998
Lemming ....... 1
1997
Lemming ....... 5
1996
Lemming ....... 9