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When you lose to WSU three straight seasons, the recruiting rankings arguments seem a little over blown.  Stanford has at least averaged a 20 spot higher ranking than that program for the last many seasons. Stanford also has recruited better than Utah, if you go with the rankings, and Shaw is what, 1-4 against them?

If you are talking about under-performance on a program level, I don't think you can single out our record against one or two teams as convincing evidence, it's a small numbers problem. For example, I believe UCLA and USC have outrecruited us in the past few years and we have a good record against them; if you just single out those two teams, you could make the case that we've clearly outperformed our talent level.

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When you lose to WSU three straight seasons, the recruiting rankings arguments seem a little over blown.  Stanford has at least averaged a 20 spot higher ranking than that program for the last many seasons. Stanford also has recruited better than Utah, if you go with the rankings, and Shaw is what, 1-4 against them?

If you are talking about under-performance on a program level, I don't think you can single out our record against one or two teams as convincing evidence, it's a small numbers problem. For example, I believe UCLA and USC have outrecruited us in the past few years and we have a good record against them; if you just single out those two teams, you could make the case that we've clearly outperformed our talent level.