College football by the numbers has an interesting perspective on recruiting classes. USC comes in #18 in their study.
He has a feature I liked about this study; the author attempted to determine whether talent acquisition was trending in the right or wrong direction at particular schools. He came up with a number for overall talent, then came up with another number weighted for talent in the upper classes – juniors and seniors.
Link: http://www.cfbtn.com/2014/05/an-analysis-of-recruiting-class-rankings.html?m=1
He has a feature I liked about this study; the author attempted to determine whether talent acquisition was trending in the right or wrong direction at particular schools. He came up with a number for overall talent, then came up with another number weighted for talent in the upper classes – juniors and seniors.
Link: http://www.cfbtn.com/2014/05/an-analysis-of-recruiting-class-rankings.html?m=1