Based on film alone, the guys they are signing are so much better than anything we've signed since the Zook years. Its so obvious from the film.
This. I mean, again, it's based on film alone, but the gut feeling is still that these classes and players are leaps an bounds better than where we were the previous 8 years.
The 2017 season at first look was awful, but when you start to really look into some of the development and some of the numbers, we made a LOT of progress in a lot of areas. I think we will see that this class will continue that.
Everyone needs to remember that we're still fighting to even be welcome to compete for some of the big time recruits... let alone actively compete to get them. Many of the players we've added this year are better than ones we've added last year, and look at how good many of them last year turned out to be. If we can continue to coach up 2* into 3/4* type players and coach 3* players into 4/5* type players, that will start to speak volumes.
We will win. And when we do, if the system is still intact, we will continue to recruit better and better players.
I get very frustrated at Lovie many times throughout the season/recruiting process, yet he has proven me wrong nearly every damn time. I do believe he is the right guy to fix this program's football problems.