[Mick]

Super pleased with this class and excited to cheer for these guys the next 3-5 years.  I want to mention a couple misses to make another point.

My other alma mater is Ohio State and the two top prospective stars of its recruiting class (which I hear is the highest average predicted quality of all time of any school) are names familiar to us: Baron Browning (ILB and yes Barry's younger brother) and Jeffrey Okudah (S).  I think these two were highly likely to get admitted.  Okudah is a Watkins award finalist.

In these two cases, I speculate that the proven national championship credentials were a deciding factor.  If we can somehow win one, the potential pool of recruits can get larger and make us an even more perennial contender than we already are.

I noticed that in business.  I was working for the #2 firm in a certain profession, then left to go work for #1.  #1 received more than twice as many "default" RFP opportunities as #2.

[Mick]

Super pleased with this class and excited to cheer for these guys the next 3-5 years.  I want to mention a couple misses to make another point.

My other alma mater is Ohio State and the two top prospective stars of its recruiting class (which I hear is the highest average predicted quality of all time of any school) are names familiar to us: Baron Browning (ILB and yes Barry's younger brother) and Jeffrey Okudah (S).  I think these two were highly likely to get admitted.  Okudah is a Watkins award finalist.

In these two cases, I speculate that the proven national championship credentials were a deciding factor.  If we can somehow win one, the potential pool of recruits can get larger and make us an even more perennial contender than we already are.

I noticed that in business.  I was working for the #2 firm in a certain profession, then left to go work for #1.  #1 received more than twice as many "default" RFP opportunities as #2.