Final Top 25 Recruiting classes by MaxPreps

[HawkPrdatr40]

1. Florida
2. Texas
3. USC
4. Oklahoma
5. LSU
6. Penn State
7. Notre Dame
8. UCLA
9. Alabama
10. Michigan
11. Auburn
12. Tennessee
13. California
14. Washington
15. Ohio State
16. Florida State
17. Oregon
18. Georgia
19. Stanford
20. North Carolina
21. Miami (Fla.)
22. Michigan State
23. Iowa
24. North Carolina State
25. Missouri

* Iowa quietly landed a really solid class. No one talked about them much today, but they signed A.J. Derby, Andrew Donnal, and C.J.Fiedorowicz, three difference makers at the next level.

Final Top 25 team recruiting rankings - MaxPreps News

Rivals ranks Iowa's class 42
Scout ranks Iowa's class 45

 

[iahawk20]

Nice!

 

[JoeHawki]

I find it intersting that michigan st did so well, considering they are under achieving each season.

 

[DeanMarshall]

BUMP

+1

 

[JonDMiller]

I think that Lemming had Iowa in his Top 25 too

 

[HawkeyeShane]

Let's rank them again in 4 years...Jon, when you and Steve went back and checked out the class of '06 and put it up against "next level" teams, it made for great radio and more proof of just what a crapshoot recruiting is.

 

[racerhawk]

I wonder if Dick Rod is able to get things going at Michigan??? Top 10 recruiting class... I dunno. Thoughts?

 

[HawkeyeShane]

I wonder if Dick Rod is able to get things going at Michigan??? Top 10 recruiting class... I dunno. Thoughts?

I don't see it happening...teams are catching up to the spread more and more every year. Football has always been about lining up and seeing if your best can beat my best...a test of manhood, intestinal fortitude and will...and when coaches try to "gimmick it up", it never seems to have a long shelf life...in other words, the vaunted spread is getting closer to the ramp and the shark on the other side is circling menacingly as Happy Days cuts to commercial...

 

[shawk23]

I dont think so. look at all the wins Spurrier racked up at Florida with the run and shoot. Now at South Carolina what use to work does not anymore and he has always had "good" recruiting classes there. Defenses figure things out and it all comes back to smash mouth football and who wants it more and who is willing to work for it.

 

[shawk23]

I dont think so. look at all the wins Spurrier racked up at Florida with the run and shoot. Now at South Carolina what use to work does not anymore and he has always had "good" recruiting classes there. Defenses figure things out and it all comes back to smash mouth football and who wants it more and who is willing to work for it.

in response to: I wonder if Dick Rod is able to get things going at Michigan??? Top 10 recruiting class... I dunno. Thoughts?

Sorry

 

[OO44]

I think that Lemming had Iowa in his Top 25 too

Tom Lemming is MaxPreps.

 

[HawkeyeNTexas]

Just side note. Texas A&M is usually in the top 15 each year for recruiting. What has that ranking given them the past decade? not much.

 

[rdubbs]

I'd be interested in seeing what the rankings would be in 2 or 3 years.

 

[archfiend]

Is it safe to say that #'s 3, 12, and to a lesser degree, 7, go to show that certain schools would get top recruiting classes if they were coached by a monkey?

 

[Scotttyd]

out of curiousity (although I am sure it has brought up here a few times). How did the this year and next year's senior class rank? What kind of star rating did Clayborn, Angerer, Edds, Bulaga, Spivey, and the like get?

 

[GhostofBTT]

out of curiousity (although I am sure it has brought up here a few times). How did the this year and next year's senior class rank? What kind of star rating did Clayborn, Angerer, Edds, Bulaga, Spivey, and the like get?

Edds, Clayborn, and Bulaga were all extremely highly rated coming to Iowa.

People seem to like to ignore how many one-time big recruits helped Iowa to success this year.

 

[RevHolzhammer]

Tony Moeaki was ranked as either a 4 or 5 star coming out of Wheaton, IL high school. As was Dace, too.

On the other hand, very few schools were recruiting Pat Angerer, Brent Greenwood, Tyler Sash, Ricky Stanzi, Julian Vandevelde............So, this class is really looking like a star class, because Iowa got some guys early that other schools coveted throughout the process.