Chip Kelly's recruiting has not been elite either. Pac-12 class rankings (per 247sports):
2018--4th (Oregon 2nd, Stanford 7th)
2019--6th (Oregon 1st, Stanford 3rd)
2020--6th (Oregon 1st, Stanford 3rd)
2021--4th (Oregon 1st, Stanford 7th)
2022 (to date)--4th (Oregon 1st, Stanford 2nd)
UCLA has been very active in the transfer portal, but as best as I can tell the results have been a mixed bag.
Not saying anything that folks on this board don't already know, but Oregon is the only Pac-12 school that is close to elite when it comes to recruiting since 2018. Every class is ranked between 6th and 13th nationally.
2018--4th (Oregon 2nd, Stanford 7th)
2019--6th (Oregon 1st, Stanford 3rd)
2020--6th (Oregon 1st, Stanford 3rd)
2021--4th (Oregon 1st, Stanford 7th)
2022 (to date)--4th (Oregon 1st, Stanford 2nd)
UCLA has been very active in the transfer portal, but as best as I can tell the results have been a mixed bag.
Not saying anything that folks on this board don't already know, but Oregon is the only Pac-12 school that is close to elite when it comes to recruiting since 2018. Every class is ranked between 6th and 13th nationally.
If there's one thing people have learned in Berkeley, it's that you can't put "Cal football" and "Rose Bowl" in the same sentence. The words just don't fit. You'd be better off linking "covered wagons" with "Mars travel." (Bruce Jenkins, Cal '70, SF Chronicle, Nov. 11, 2017)