(All class rankings taken from 247sports.com and final rankings from KenPom; special thanks to alexjw7 for compiling the stats)
Bobby Bowden once famously downplayed his coaching acumen by acknowledging that it is good-to-great players that should be given the bulk of the credit for a program's success. Even our own Athletic Director, Debbie Yow, has been adamant about hiring coaches who can recruit at a high level. Recruiting well at NC State for all sports is a necessity and, as we saw in the past month, Mark Gottfried is locked in. For the first time in his tenure, Gottfried has landed a Top 5 recruiting class including 2 highly regarded 5-Star players.