Quentin Williams QB                       Tevin Pendleton   LB
Derrius Vick QB                                Remi Hudson   CB
Remi Watson RB                             Lorenzo Fisher  CB
Travis Bodenstein T                         Jamal Merrit  CB
Bubba Tandy WR

Thanks Doc for the info.

Why then was Vick reportedly our number one priority for the entire recruiting class?

My dream ending is one more offensive lineman (Lucas Powell)...and any running back from Florida.

And that would be....drum roll please.

Remi Watson to Marshall per ESPN.

Remi Watson

I've been noticing Marshall's class building up.  Wow. 1-4 star and 9 3-stars so far.  They were 66th in nation before the latest 4 and 3 star  guys.  Will likely end up in top 60 anyway.  Since we recruit so many of the same guys, it can't be character issues.  Let's face it, the MAC stinks, it's amazing we get the 3-star guys we do in many ways.  Sure coaching the guys counts for a lot, but I would not compain if we had 9 3-star guys and 1 -4-star at the end.  The MAC is real near the bottom, recruiting wise, but if we can get our share of the competitive guys, like we seem to be doing this year, we'll end up with more talent than the rest of the MAC.  That's a start, and add in the staff and its longevity and that's pretty good as far as being competitive in the MAC.

Edit-this is the third guy with offers from Marshall &Ohio who has verballed to Marshall.

I was at lunch with several Marshall fans, and this very conversation came up. The Marshall fans conceded that a lot of it has to do with the ranking services being biased towards certain fan bases. Basically, if your Rivals board is larger and more active, Rivals will bump your recruits up just to stoke the fan base. Marshall doesn't have the largest Rivals board, but they have one, and we don't. That may be part of it.

But I do agree that the MAC is a factor. From top to bottom, CUSA is a better conference. The analysts just can't accurately rate all the recruits coming out of high school. If a recruit lands in CUSA, the rankers are more likely to give him more stars than a recruit that lands in the MAC. We always see the 3 star guys that become 2 stars when they come to the MAC, and the 3 star guys that become 4 stars when they wind up 4th string on a Big Ten team.

It's a racket. Wins, not recruiting stars, are the ultimate measuring stick. Marshall fans were absolutely pumped at the beginning of last season because of their supposedly awesome (by Marshall standards) recruiting class. Ask any Marshall fan today if they would give up that class for a winning season last year, and I guarantee they would rather win than recruit well.

I would like to see at least one more QB and RB in this class to build some depth. The day is here that this program has to be able to rely on QB's recruited out of high school instead of transfers. RB position on this team could use more talent.