They aren't. In 2017 (not holding it against him, just pointing it out) we finished 6th out of 7 Big Ten West teams in the 247 composite. In 2018 (Fleck's first full class), we finished 2nd in the West, but 3rd in average recruit ranking - we placed ahead of wisconsin in the overall rankings because we had 25 recruits to their 20. In 2019, again we are rated highly in September because Fleck gets a lot of early commits. And even with this inflation, we're still currently 3rd in the Big Ten West, behind Nebraska and Purdue. We're barely ahead of wisconsin at the moment, and we have 24 commits to their 13. Right now, our average recruit rating is 13th in the Big Ten, ahead of only Rutgers. Unless we get some massive ratings revisions upward, we will again finish 5th or 6th in the Big Ten West like we did in 2017.
These 2017-2019 classes will be the backbone of the team in 2020 and 2021, Fleck's 4th/5th years when we should be rolling and finding out whether he can win big here. This is not to say that he can't win big here with this level of recruiting, because he certainly can - it's just that the upgraded talent level (at least on paper) is a myth.