[Papa John]

With National Signing Day for the HS class of 2022 on Wednesday, February 2, I implore the administrators to pin this thread! This is more immediate than the Class of 2024, methinks.

As best as I can tell, there is still one committed but unsigned recruit: S Collin Wright (mentioned by TrumpCard in a different thread) who, I believe, received a late offer from TCU.

Might there be an unexpected addition--a la Wilfredo Aybar--next Wednesday?

With the collapse of Oregon's HS recruiting when Cristobal left, Stanford's class is still atop the Pac-12 and top 20 nationally, per Rivals, 247sports and On3. But with the number of recruits still uncommitted, but not committing to Stanford, that could change a bit. 

It seems like a number of teams are foregoing this high school class and, I guess, putting all of their hopes in the transfer portal.

* UCLA has 12 commits and appears to be in the running for maybe 1 or 2 more (no megawhales as best as I can tell)
* Oregon has 11 commits and, although I imagine they'll get 2 or 3 more, will not come remotely close to making up for the ground lost due to Cristobal leaving.
* Cal has 13 commits and no notable prospects still on the board
* ASU has 9 commits
* UW has 5 commits although they are still in the running for OT megawhale Josh Conerly Jr. (a Stanford offer holder) and maybe one or two others

The real mystery team is USC. The Trojans currently have 8 commits and they are in the running for a few uncommitted prospects. They might flip a few unsigned players, but they are making the biggest noise in the transfer portal.

So as of now, it looks to me like Stanford is holding its own with the HS recruits, USC is going to do well with transfers, Arizona is recruiting HS and transfers way above its performance last season, Utah is more-or-less holding steady and everyone else in the conference is bleeding a lot of talent.

But all in all, when you consider HS and transfers, there's no evidence that the Pac-12 will close the gap between it and other Power 5 conferences with incoming talent in 2022. If anything, the gap is getting wider.

[Papa John]

With National Signing Day for the HS class of 2022 on Wednesday, February 2, I implore the administrators to pin this thread! This is more immediate than the Class of 2024, methinks.

As best as I can tell, there is still one committed but unsigned recruit: S Collin Wright (mentioned by TrumpCard in a different thread) who, I believe, received a late offer from TCU.

Might there be an unexpected addition--a la Wilfredo Aybar--next Wednesday?

With the collapse of Oregon's HS recruiting when Cristobal left, Stanford's class is still atop the Pac-12 and top 20 nationally, per Rivals, 247sports and On3. But with the number of recruits still uncommitted, but not committing to Stanford, that could change a bit. 

It seems like a number of teams are foregoing this high school class and, I guess, putting all of their hopes in the transfer portal.

* UCLA has 12 commits and appears to be in the running for maybe 1 or 2 more (no megawhales as best as I can tell)
* Oregon has 11 commits and, although I imagine they'll get 2 or 3 more, will not come remotely close to making up for the ground lost due to Cristobal leaving.
* Cal has 13 commits and no notable prospects still on the board
* ASU has 9 commits
* UW has 5 commits although they are still in the running for OT megawhale Josh Conerly Jr. (a Stanford offer holder) and maybe one or two others

The real mystery team is USC. The Trojans currently have 8 commits and they are in the running for a few uncommitted prospects. They might flip a few unsigned players, but they are making the biggest noise in the transfer portal.

So as of now, it looks to me like Stanford is holding its own with the HS recruits, USC is going to do well with transfers, Arizona is recruiting HS and transfers way above its performance last season, Utah is more-or-less holding steady and everyone else in the conference is bleeding a lot of talent.

But all in all, when you consider HS and transfers, there's no evidence that the Pac-12 will close the gap between it and other Power 5 conferences with incoming talent in 2022. If anything, the gap is getting wider.