NCAA Football Signing Day

I thought I'd do a quick take on college football since signing day was this week. ESPN did not have a single team from the Big East in the top 25. Rivals, who I trust a little more when it comes to grading high school football talent, had WV at #19. I still have major questions about Bill Stewart's ability to lead and coach the Mounties, but he appears to be doing a fine job recruiting, really as good as anyone has done at WVU. So, we'll see what the talent brings. Zook had a top recruiting class upon coming to Illinois and his team still stinks because he's a bad coach. There are also teams that don't get that top level talent that are consistently good because of coaching, so I'm not sure how much weight to put on these rankings. I do know this, having a top 25 recruiting class can't hurt. My main concern is that the Big East continues to be lackluster in its recruiting as a conference. After WV, Pitt comes in at 33, Louisville 51, Cincy 59, USF 62, Rutgers 64, Syracuse 78, and UConn 84. Considering that there are 65 teams in the 6 power conferences, that's a pretty poor showing. I do like WV at the top of the Big East, but I wish more talent was coming to the conference. As for WV's class, the four stars recruits included a QB, LB, 2 WR's, and OL. The lone 5 start recruit is a DB, Latwan Anderson who, according to the sites, has only verbally committed to WV. Ryan could probably offer a little more insight if he was willing to lend his time.