My comment was in response to the attempt to characterize this class as more talented than VT's., which I view as a spin job and fake news. At the moment, our class simply is not better than their's. VT has 5 more recruits than UM, so maybe we will pass them by signing more quality recruits than VT between now and signing day, and maybe we won't.
But depth matters. Filling in your class matters. Playing as close as possible to 85 scholarships matter. People were talking about bringing in 25-27 as recently as a couple of weeks ago. That isn't happening unless we're bring in half a dozen suspect recruits.
And at the moment, we are faced with a situation where the staff will need to grind just to crack the top 25. In the last 20 years, we have only fallen outside the top 25 twice (2011 and 2015). But not only is the ranking bad, but there are major holes. No QB, no OT recruits other than borderline 3* projects, light on WRs, light at DL when we need more because of years of underrecruiting DL, not enough help in the secondary...
That is unacceptable. Regardless of 5 year trends. Regardless of how the rest of the pitiful Coastal recruits. Winning the Coastal is a goal, but it should never be the goal.
Do we need better coaching? Do we need better recruiting? Do we need to do a better job developing our talent? The answer is yes, to all of the above.
So forgive me if I lack patience for this type of thread. These "we have the talent to win the coastal" threads are myopic. I do not want to win the coastal with barely better talent. I prefer we outcoach, outrecruit, outdevelop, and outplay our competition. I want us have as huge a talent gap as possible.
