Objectively speaking, how is this class shaping up better than some other classes, like the '11 class?
I follow recruiting; I just don't follow the hype.
2011 player rating 88.32
2017 player rating 88.53 (after Avery commits)
So yeah, about the same as it ever was.
And that average is more likely to fall than to rise as the year goes on.
Life around you must just be miserable.
It's a reality of how the trending tends to work, because coaches allow their top prospects (who happen to also usually be the highest rated), commit early.
It's not pessimistic or miserable. It's how it tends to go for most schools, including NU over the years.
This thread is straying from Lang's approach to offense, but we can certainly have a discussion about how stupid it is to pretend that a .10 difference in a rating is actually significant for anything other than driving recruitnik website hits.