The Gophers are ranked 9th — just behind Northwestern and behind all of our rivals — in the 2020 recruiting class. We have 2 four-star recruits? Big deal. Michigan has 12. Penn State has 9. Even Wisconsin, which will bring in 2/3 the recruits that we will, has more 4 star recruits than we do. And do you think our embarrassing showing for College Gameday will help Wisconsin’s recruiting or Fleck’s recruiting?
Your claim that Fleck will no longer accept coaching up 3-star recruits is based on feeling, not facts. He recruits on average ONE player a year that is not 2 or 3-star, and his recruiting remains far behind our rivals. Fleck has to do better recruiting — we won’t have the easiest Big 10 schedule again for a long time.