I will be the first guy to say that class rankings are very overvalued. There is lots of schools with regular top 20 classes that are not playing well. With that said if you are going to spit out about class ranking at least be accurate.
UL is going to probably have a class ranked better than 35 and right now it is higher than UK class according to rivals. When it is all said and done both schools will have classes in the 25-35. While UL does have more Jucos than normal the class is not mostly Jucos. The reason UL has holes is because the WR and RB group got to senior heavy and Strong did not recruit the O-line very well. His last 2 groups were not good and most of his last class transferred out this summer leaving UL short on O-line depth. In general Petrino uses different styles of O-line guys than Strong. The good thing about the Jucos is they are all enrolled now so those 7 guys plus a true freshmen can be here for the Spring. As a rule I am not a big Juco fan but lots of schools that recruit well take a few to fill holes. Last year Petrino took 4. He redshirted a WR that will play this year and the other 3 all played a lot on defense this year including Sample who is going into the draft. Sure hope this group is as good.
SO in the end UL will have about 17-18 true freshmen and most will redshirt leaving plenty of 5th year seniors down the road.
Finally yes we know Wiggins was kicked off Georgia for violating team rules. I guess we are trying to be an SEC school. Auburn has taken several of these type kids and now Alabama is taking a player kicked off Georgia for an arrest.
UL is going to probably have a class ranked better than 35 and right now it is higher than UK class according to rivals. When it is all said and done both schools will have classes in the 25-35. While UL does have more Jucos than normal the class is not mostly Jucos. The reason UL has holes is because the WR and RB group got to senior heavy and Strong did not recruit the O-line very well. His last 2 groups were not good and most of his last class transferred out this summer leaving UL short on O-line depth. In general Petrino uses different styles of O-line guys than Strong. The good thing about the Jucos is they are all enrolled now so those 7 guys plus a true freshmen can be here for the Spring. As a rule I am not a big Juco fan but lots of schools that recruit well take a few to fill holes. Last year Petrino took 4. He redshirted a WR that will play this year and the other 3 all played a lot on defense this year including Sample who is going into the draft. Sure hope this group is as good.
SO in the end UL will have about 17-18 true freshmen and most will redshirt leaving plenty of 5th year seniors down the road.
Finally yes we know Wiggins was kicked off Georgia for violating team rules. I guess we are trying to be an SEC school. Auburn has taken several of these type kids and now Alabama is taking a player kicked off Georgia for an arrest.