Given the To'o To'o news and the commentary, I wanted to check and see on player numbers to see if the OSU fans are just being salty. Here is the raw data on recruitment #s and average ranking:
Alabama:
- 2017 29 players signed, 93.76 average 247 ranking
- 2018 - 22 and 91.94
- 2019 - 27 and 94.38
- 2020 - 25 and 93.54
- 2021 - 27 and 95.00
Total 2017-2021: 130 players and average of 93.724
OSU:
- 2017 - 21 and 94.59
- 2018 - 26 and 94.29
- 2019 - 17 and 91.87
- 2020 - 25 and 91.79
- 2021 - 21 and 94.52
Total - 110 players and average of 93.412.
In other words, our talent is very very similar on average but Alabama gets 20 more at bats than us over a 5 year period. This is not an even playing field at all.