Comparing Recruiting Classes

[EE_Gopher]

I decided to compare Wisconsin and Minnesota classes by looking at those that were either 4 star by rivals or had high interest from major schools. I tried to take early committing into account as well.

Wisconsin
James C. White
Robby Havenstien
Frank Tamakloe
Beau Allen
Joseph Brennan
Sherard Cadogan

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Cody Beyers
Manasseh Garner
Warren Herring

Minnesota
James Green
Lamonte Edwards
Jimmy Gjere
Chris Hawkins
Marquise Hill
Devon Wright

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Tiree Eure
Harold Legania

Based on this analysis (which I know is flawed), the classes have about the same number of coveted recruits.

 

[gophergrad]

Huh, that's interesting. Nice post. Wisconsin still sucks.

 

[KoolAid]

Huh, that's interesting. Nice post. Wisconsin still sucks.

Very true. Sconnie sucks and so does their recruiting class this year.

 

[Bob_Loblaw]

There are certainly some players you missed out on...

If you are going to count Beyers (West Virginia) and Garner (UConn, Md, Pitt., MN) as "closes" than you should include:

James Manuel (Cincinatti, Michigan St., Iowa)
Ragoo (Miami)
Thornton (Pitt., Rutgers, South Florida)
Kirkwood (KState, Pitt., Rutgers)
Vereen (Stanford)

 

[magpie]

Wisconsin still sucks.

This guy is onto something here... QFT.

 

[Schnoodler]

Rivals judges a class based on many factors. A very important one to them is how many impact players a team acquires. They've deemed Wiscy as having almost zero impact players. Although nice depth.