My take today...
- Urban is an excellent recruiter, good gameday, and excellent at finding good assistants to develop the talent.
- Dantonio is a mediocre recruiter, great gameday, great at developing talent.
- Franklin is a very good recruiter, mediocre gameday.
- Chryst is mediocre recruiter, good gameday, great at developing talent.
- Ferentz has had a revival... a poor man's Dantonio
- Fitzgerad has aso had a bit of a revival... it's hard to recruit there for several reasons but seems he develops his guys every 3-4 years.
- Harbaugh is an awful recruiter, good gameday, mediocre at developing talent.
Scott Frost? I could see him being better than Harbaugh too. We'll find out.
Harbaugh has to be somewhere on Lovie Smith's level... NFL dropout, can't recruit, struggling at a basketball school.
Can PJ Fleck challenge for position? I kinda doubt it; but I have to take coaching at places like Minnesota and Northwestern with a grain of salt... it's a lot harder to be successful there than a program that gets preseason Top25 rankings rubber stamped every season for no reason at all.