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Coaches like Nick Saban, Urban Meyer, Jim Tressel, and Brian Kelly have won right off the bat with the previous Coach's recruits where ever they have been.
Saban was 7-6 his 1st season at Bama and lost to La-Monroe at home. Bama had 3 top 20 classes the 3 seasons before he got there(#18, 15, 10). He pulled 2 straight #1 classes. At LSU he had to recruit the talent.
Meyer walked into Florida having inked the #2 and #7 classes the 2 years before he arrived. He pulled the #2 and #1 classes in consecutive years.
Tressel walked into a loaded team that Cooper couldn't get over the hump. Rivals' on-line record don't go back that far.
Kelley was 7-5 his 1st season at Cinci I have no idea on what talent was on hand or he faced in that conference.
Pete Carroll didn't make much noise at USC until his great recruiting classes matured.
B. Stoops inherited a loaded team from Blake and has consistently averaged the highest ranked recruiting classes in the Big 12 not MacIII. MacIII has to be looked at post VY's NC to find a 4 year span where he averaged a better class ranking than Stoops. Debatable if MacIII got better or continuous OU bowl failure bit Stoops in the butt.
These kinds of stats/correlation to recruiting is why I'm not sold on Pelini at NU yet. He walked into 3 good recruiting classes by Callahan.#5, 20,and 13. His success this year was on the backs of his upperclassmen that Callahan brought in. One of whom is the most dominate DT in a generation. What will 2011 hold for NU when all those guys are gone? Pelini's 3 classes are in the 25-30 range.
[This message has been edited by yakman (edited 2/4/2010 3:31a).]