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What am I missing re: OL recruiting numbers?

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To me, the gold standards of OL recruiting right now are Alabama, Notre Dame and Wisconsin.

Alabama took 5 OL in 2019 (1 five star, 3 four stars, 1 three star), 3 OL in 2020 (1 four star, two three stars), and currently have 4 OL committed in this class (two five star, two four star). Total = 12 in the last three classes.

Notre Dame took 4 OL in 2019 (four four stars), 2 OL in 2020 (two four stars), and currently have 5 OL committed this class (one five star, two four stars, two three stars). Total = 11 in the last three classes.

Wisconsin took 2 OL in 2019 (one four star, one three star), 5 OL in 2020 (three four stars, two three stars), and currently have 3 OL committed this class (one five star, two four stars) and are expecting two more OL to commit before signing day. Total = 12 (if the two commit) in the last three classes.

Miami took 4 OL in 2019 (one three star, two two stars, one unrated), 2 OL last year (one four star, one three star), and have 3 OL currently committed (one four star, two three stars). Total = 9 over the last three classes.

What am I missing? Why are we not making this a priority numbers-wise? Are we expecting additions to this class? It just seems like this isn't being prioritized when it's one of the weakest links on this team.
 
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Positional development and strength and conditioning.

As bad as Miami was yesterday, there were some improvements from a positional development standpoint this year. We are better than a year before. With that said, we are starting a two-star left tackle (who has had some good play this year, to be fair), low end three-star at guard that should be a center, an undersized three-star center, a four-star at guard that should be a center (or tackle), and a transfer three star tackle. The talent isn't that good and even the potentially good players are playing out of position. We are relying a lot on young guys moving forward like Jalen Rivers, Chris Washington, Big Baby Seymour, Ryan Rodriguez, and Mike McLaughlin to get better in a hurry.
 
If you add the transfers in the numbers are probably pretty close.

Wisconsin and Bama also have 8000 walk-ons
 
ssvir said:
If you add the transfers in the numbers are probably pretty close.

Wisconsin and Bama also have 8000 walk-ons
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That's probably true, but I think there's an article floating around out there that says over the last two decades, a team's success directly correlates with the number of years the OL starters have been in the program (i.e., the teams with multiple year starters and/or kids who came in and waited 2-3 years before starting at OL) have finished consistently in the top 10. Transfers don't really help with that.

Wisconsin and ND do a really solid job of this -- going out, getting some "toolsy" three stars into the program, letting the S&C coach have their way with those kids for 3 years, and eventually turning them into monsters. Why isn't Miami taking a similar approach?
 
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We also took two GT OL and should take 4 this year. That would put us at 12 over 3 years.
 
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