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Really good....we brought in a lot of depth and talent in the secondary and filled a lot of depth with some good looking prospects.

Disappointed in what could have been an all-time class? Yes. We had Nkemdiche and Daniel committed and were right in the thick of it for Adams and Lawson, finishing second for both. Would have been nice to close with 2/4 of those guys. We really needed an elite edge rusher in this class and didn't land one, though we still signed some good developmental players at DE

I think we only have a couple of reaches in this class, Greenlee and Carter, but I understand the reasoning for both. We've taken many guys with more questions that Carter, and he comes from a good school we may be able to mine for talent for some time.

Most existed about Alexander. I think he can start next year. I'm also intrigued about Kearse, Tyshon Dye and O'Daniel. I think all 4 have the makings of impact players early in their careers.

Overall very satisfied. Good job by Dabo and staff.

Thats a battle we now have to start winning is the big time DL in sec territory. I couldnt care less about losing daniels. I think shaq lawson and Ebo will give us elite DEs, maybe not right away though. This is got to be a top 5/3 secondary class. We definitely have two big time LBs and I think we may have struck gold with the two RBs.

You have 6 guys who can come in and play early and addressed needs across the board.nearly PT- Mack, Dye, Kearse, Lawson, Tank, Williams

Think this is a very fair assessment, the Alexander pick up was huge because of the need att he position. The DL guys would have been huge but with what's returning in 13 it wasn't an urgent need.

Also, despite Crowder being the second highest rated commit, I think both RB's and Boulware and O'daniel at the LB spots are much more impactful signings. OL by its nature is developmental and a numbers game, so he's probably 3 years away from contributing, whereas all these guys have a shot to find their way onto the field much quicker.

No issues nothing to see here,,,,,move along

Hard not to be fairly satisfied. Sure, we are all disappointed about Adams and the other poaches, but the rest of the class is pretty solid. Alexander was huge today and several other guys I like. I rate it a B+

Biggest miss in the class is Adams, but overall happy with the class.

Load up on the line next year.

I think next year we are going to have to do some roster maintenance next year, because if we can only take 12-14 kids, we are going to be in trouble.

Very pleased with the class... I still can't believe we missed on Adams when we lead for him 4 days ago, that's pretty disheartening

But overall good class

By my count we have 10 seniors and one very likely early departure, so 11 spots open up:

Boyd
Thomas
McDowell
Catanzaro
Robinson
Shuey
Shatley
Smith
Christian
Fagjenbaum
Watkins

We will no doubt have some attrition, non-qualifier, disciplinary issue, etc. that will open up a couple of spots, so that would increase the number to say 13.

I think there are about 7-8 guys who need to show something between now and next January or they may be eased out the door:

Parker
McNeal
Webster
MacLain
T. Thomas
Maybank
Region

At the most I see 20 spots, but it's doubtful you'll have 9 guys leave through attrition/forced out. That just seems high. I'd say we come in around 16 next year, which means we should be very selective about takes early in this cycle.

This far we have 5 commitments in the '14 cycle (Hearn, Cook, Oglesby, Smith and Watson). All 5 looks to be solid prospects, so realistically we will probably have only 10 more takes if we can hang on to these guys.

These last few years that pretty much gets said every year. Some unexpected things will happen.