Recruiting rankings are worthless. They're not worth the Internet they're printed on. But they're there and so Scout had Iowa at 42 and Rivals had Iowa at 54 (or something like that, I know I'm in the neighborhood).
People pay for those rankings, so they obviously fill a need in the market. Some of you out there enjoy these and actually put stock into them. I don't, but that's OK. We'll just agree to disagree.
But I found this on ESPN.com. I knew it would come to this. I knew someone out there would have the idiocy to GRADE recruiting classes.
Leave it to ESPN.
http://sports.espn.go.com/ncaa/recruiting/football/news/story?id=3234284
I'll give you a preliminary grade in three years, a final grade in four. We only have to look at Iowa's mangled (what is it now, 11, 12, 13, of the 23 gone now?) 2005 class. Iowa's 2006 and 2007 classes were far less heralded and, so far, have been far more productive.
Grading recruiting classes? Alrighty then.
My friend Greg replaced the Tiger Hawk on his golf cart with a painting of Kelly Clarkson. It was a little spendy, but hey, anything for Kelly.