This year OU's recruiting class is sub par when in comparison to past years and these same obsessive fans have been filling up the chat rooms and blog boards with complaints and irate suggestions. The reason for this is because of the hype surrounding these high school players entering college. The hype is so big that schools hold school wide assemblies and some players even make their announcement on national television either at their assembly or during high school All American games. Even forming more hype are websites such as rivals.com and scouts.com which focus almost exclusively on NCAA recruiting.
For those of you out there who are guilty of being one of those obsessive fans who constantly monitor rivals.com and scouts.com, I am not knocking you. I happen to be just as upset as you... But for those of you who get all bent out of shape when OU has an off year in recruiting and then decide to blog about it, I am knocking you. First of all I think that a top 15 recruiting class should hardly be considered an off year. Second, if you look back at the history of coach Stoops' recruiting you will find that five star recruits rarely live up to expectation. When you're considered to be at the top the only direction you can go is down. Third, the last time Stoops brought home a National Title was with a bunch of "scrubs" who could just play as a team.
Personally, I prefer a recruiting class with a lot of raw talent and less egos. I think that egos can be to blame for a lack of success in the past. I will leave you with this...(Sam Bradford was a 3 star recruit and was recruited as a back up... Rhett Bomar was a 5 star recruit and was recruited to be an all star) Bomar's touchdown to interception ratio was 10 and 10, Bradford's was 36 and 8.
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