Hate to be the middle man here, but the residual effect of the Bosas, Young, Lattimore, etc. are still there to some extent. We are still getting good recruits on the defensive side of the ball and I am sure that effect is still alive in helping thta. However, the utter inconsistency of the defense as a whole and a new staff is hurting for the time being. Most of recruiting is relationships and with almost an entirely new staff, those bridges are still being built. I think you would have seen slightly better recruiting results if we kept Coombs and the gang because of the relationship factor. But we had to improve and sever ties. You have to know going into a staff turnover that there will be some (hopefully) short term recruiting lag. We are seeing it and the downside with the early signing period is the new staff may not get a chance to prove itself before most of the top players ink with other teams.
As to this class, I think LJ Sr will clean up per the usual at DL...plenty of great options on DL and lets not forget landing Moore at DT recently. Point is that I am not worried about DL. At DB, I love the guys we have committed still, but who knows how solid some of those commits are and I think we need at least one more in any event. The concern to me is LB, after Curtis I really don't see any appealing prospects we are in on. Thank god we got Hicks and Powers last class. I realize the LB position is not as important in Knowles' scheme in terms of numbers, but we have to bring in at least one (probably two) LBs in this class regardless. Who that is I don't know.
