Ranking Big Ten recruiting efforts over the last decade (#10. Minnesota)

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per Farrell:

10. MINNESOTA
Average national ranking: 53.2

The skinny: The Gophers have generally found themselves in the 50s through most of the decade but have produced their two best recruiting seasons in 2018 (43) and 2019 (41). These two classes were the first two full years of coach P.J. Fleck’s time in Minneapolis, so expectations are rising. Carter Coughlin continues to produce for the Gophers, while former four-star Daniel Faalele has the potential to play at the next level.

Farrell’s take: Recruiting is up under Fleck and that’s a good thing, but the Gophers are still up against it because of a lack of home-state talent and how competitive the Midwest has become. They’ve done a good job of spot recruiting Florida and some other areas down south, but overall it has to be about player development for Minnesota to be successful.

https://n.rivals.com/news/ranking-big-ten-recruiting-efforts-over-the-last-decade

Go Gophers!!

 

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Is this an insult or praise? I'm up in the air on the dink/not a dink scale.

 

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Is this an insult or praise? I'm up in the air on the dink/not a dink scale.

Both. We have a tougher time getting top rated talent but we do a pretty fair job with what we get.

More interesting, though, is the ranking of some other teams:

Rutgers: 9th, just above Minnesota yet they've been terrible in all but their first year in the conference

Maryland: 6th, yet they've made only 2 middling bowls since they've appeared in the conference

Iowa and Wisconsin: tied for 7th yet Wisconsin usually has one of the top 3 or 4 conference teams

Northwestern: dead last yet they've won 9 or more games in three of the last four years

Nebraska: 3rd but they've only won more than 6 games in one of the last four years; prior to that they were consistent 9 and 10 game winners

Michigan: 2nd; didn't fare too well against the #7 ranked recruiting team last Saturday