Interesting read from The Athletic... it looks back at the 2015 class and re-ranks based on the performance of the players (and team) over the last 4 seasons. This was the last recruiting class Matt Campbell had at Toledo and that class was bumped up to 12th (from the 84th place ranking it had in 2015) in this re-ranking.
I really like this approach - not a fan of the comments you get from the writers on draft day or signing day that go something like: "how good is this class? ask me in 4 years."... If you are going to write that in your column about the current class, then that phrase should be a hyperlink to a column on the class from 4 years ago documenting how that class turned out...
Side note: not sure I agree with one of the key scoring adjustments which modifies the class rating for the number of team wins the last 4 years... I get the idea, but this is greatly impacted by the adjacent classes... I think this gives a view of the program's ability to recruit / develop talent overall but applying this directly to a specific class is difficult... first year the class contribution is usually fairly limited, and you could argue (depending on program, position) that the red shirt senior year (not accounted for in this re-ranking) is more impactful than the true freshmen season... but this is nitpicking... love the work done here.
Link to the full article (requires a subscription):
https://theathletic.com/797789/2019...how-the-class-of-2015-ranks-four-years-later/
I really like this approach - not a fan of the comments you get from the writers on draft day or signing day that go something like: "how good is this class? ask me in 4 years."... If you are going to write that in your column about the current class, then that phrase should be a hyperlink to a column on the class from 4 years ago documenting how that class turned out...
Side note: not sure I agree with one of the key scoring adjustments which modifies the class rating for the number of team wins the last 4 years... I get the idea, but this is greatly impacted by the adjacent classes... I think this gives a view of the program's ability to recruit / develop talent overall but applying this directly to a specific class is difficult... first year the class contribution is usually fairly limited, and you could argue (depending on program, position) that the red shirt senior year (not accounted for in this re-ranking) is more impactful than the true freshmen season... but this is nitpicking... love the work done here.
Link to the full article (requires a subscription):
https://theathletic.com/797789/2019...how-the-class-of-2015-ranks-four-years-later/
