(02-05-2014 11:38 AM)The T-Shirt Wrote:  

(02-05-2014 10:55 AM)marcuscan Wrote:  

(02-05-2014 10:18 AM)rath v2.0 Wrote:  There will probably still be people cheerleading this class as the "best" UC class ever. lol

We should expect more in year #2 than what we are going to end up with.

Typical.

The same challenge as always goes out to these silly posts. Show me a statistically significant difference and I'll show you sympathy for your tears

We're within .0263 avg rating of our best EVER class at UC yet the bishin' & moaning parade continues.

Numbers don't lie:
5 yr avg rating of UC recruits: .8239
Median: .8222
Best class ever: .8391
This year: .8128 (so far - 10:28AM)
Variance from best class: (.0263)

I challenge you, or anyone else for that matter to even attempt to quantify what that difference means in the real world.

Nevermind the fact that Butch's most highly acclaimed recruits have suffered a high degree of attrition. Let's look at that BEST CLASS EVER:

http://cincinnati.247sports.com/Season/2...ll/Commits

Highest rated recruits:
.8846 Bennie Coney (TBD - rs soph)
.8754 Marcus Foster (TBD - rs soph )
.8699 Deionte Buckley (Gone)
.8622 Trenton Norvell (Gone)
.8590 Caleb Stacy (Gone)
.8590 Tion Green (great potential if/ when he puts it together mentally)
.8565 Nate Cole (TBD - rs soph)
.8496 Aaron Harris (Never even made it to campus)

So, 50% of our BEST EVER recruits never even made a contribution. Of the other 50% I guess you could say Tion is primed for the most significant contribution. That's of course assuming Bennie loses the competition for starting QB. The rest are great big question marks.

Enough already with the overwrought angst. It's signing day. Take it in stride. We won't know ANYTHING for at a min 8-9 months. We won't have a proper perspective to evaluate the class for YEARS.

Finally, despite most efforts to correlate conference affiliation with recruiting I point again to the data. Tiny difference from what we did as an AQ school. Furthermore, the difference b/t us and a great sum of teams above us is nothing more than a rounding error.

Take in the day. We're winning some and losing some. Whining abt us taking kids from smaller schools is silly. CLEARLY our coaches have a keen eye or why else would SEC and the like schools be after our kids? Let's let this play out.





mc

*endless applause*

you can prove anything with math....just depends on which side you want to take.