Rivals released their first team rankings for the 2010 class recently.  You can view them at http://footballrecruiting.rivals.com/.

In 2009 you will remember we finished the year 8th with 22 recruits, 1 5-star and 13 4-star, meaning 4-star or better 64% of the time.  Our avg. star rank for 2009 was 3.59 good enough for 10th overall.  We are currently ranked 9th in 2010 with 16 recruits, 5 of which are rated 4-star and no 5-star.  That gives us a 4-star or better 31% of the time.  If the percentages hold true that means we should plan on adding 2 more 4-stars before the end.  I would predict landing a 5-star recruit this year probably a long shot if you look at the interest lists of the top recruits unless one of our 4-stars move up like Devin or fingers crossed Cullen when he hopefully commits.  When you look at avg. stars per recruit we are 3.31.  That drops us to 19^th overall, still good enough to stay ahead of little brother at 24, but a little bit of a drop when compared to previous years. 

2010 – 3.31 ytd – 19^th

2009 – 3.59 – 10^th

2008 – 3.67 – 7^th

2007 – 3.4 – 10^th

2006 – 3.63 – 6^th

Right now I think the larger concern than stars is that we finish this class with the right recruits.  Somewhere we need to pull out a DT or two, DB’s are always a need but things are trending well, and I’d like to see one more OL with all the defections – Seantrel would do just fine.