TCU’s 2017 recruiting class ranking slipped slightly in the eyes of the recruiting services from last year’s school-record 21st composite national ranking, which are compiled by 247Sports.
But coach Gary Patterson recruits to fill need, and said Wednesday that the class he got this year, which is ranked 30th in the 2017 247Sports composite rankings, checks a lot of the boxes TCU needed to check at the start of the 2017 football calendar year.
Toughness. Defensive line. Receiver. Check, check and check.
But another of Patterson’s signing day comments — that he was “fired up because we’re back in the 50s” because of the blue-collar nature of many of TCU’s recruits —may have caught recruiting-service subscribers and message-boarders off guard, because none of the three major services had TCU’s 2017 class in the 50s.