re: 2023 Recruiting

Went back and looked at that class, and I have to revise my contention that ‘98 was worse. Damn.

What kills me is that both classes came after reasonably successful seasons, and from HCs who had been in place for several years (‘98 was Bowden’s 6th signing class, ‘08 was Tuberville’s 10th). And since both classes were still back in the days before the ESD and the portal, getting kids to sign LOI that first Wednesday in February was pretty much the entire focus of the staff’s efforts.

Both of those years were epic failures, especially in retrospect - and yet the program showed remarkable success just two years later despite them (SEC West champs in 2000, BCS champs in 2010).

But it should also be noted that the HCs who signed those awful classes were gone by then….