Texas A&M jumped 14 spots. So did Arizona. Arkansas shot up 28 places. Oregon and Mississippi State improved by eight slots each. Of the 12 Power 5 college football programs that changed coaches late in the fall of 2017, eight saw an improvement Wednesday — seven of them by a healthy margin — over their 247Sports.com national composite recruiting ranking from a year ago.
Or as Yoda might say: On one recruiting cycle, judge Mel Tucker not.
“You never usually have a good class your first signing day,” former Colorado Buffaloes assistant coach and current Big Ten Network television pundit Gerry DiNardo told The Post.