Watching fans talk about recruiting is funny. Depending on how your team’s recruiting class turned out, the rankings are either proof positive your program is about to leap to a new level or completely rigged against your program. (Kind of like presidential polls…but I digress.)
Clemson is a perfect example of this phenomenon. In previous years, national rankings have looked favorably upon the staff’s efforts on the trail, leading many to put full faith and trust in selected outlets to accurately project the program’s future. This season, though, Dabo Swinney inked a small class. Terms like “average star rating” and “number of blue-chippers” became more accurate indicators of how Clemson performed overall, not those flawed rankings systems.