I tend to like your posts, but... The recruiting rankings aren't wrong? In what way? Are they "right" then? The rankings are the least scientific part of recruiting, which already has less certainty than Hellen Keller dead-reckoning the Santa María in an Atlantic squall to find India.
What I have observed with Texas recruiting over the last decade is we've been incredibly lucky just to get our #1 targets to commit, and those that did, the best ended up never making it on campus and then tearing it up elsewhere. The amount of secondary, tertiary, quaternary backup plans that have been pursued has been too damn high and I don't give a damn if the services grant them mid 4 star status, the recruiting effort has been mediocre at best. When we see consistent wins at our clear #1 targets at more than a few positions, i.e. recently with Banks, Campbell, Mitchell, Ewers, Manning, Johntay... then we're cooking with gas. I don't have my mind made up about Sark yet, at all.. but if he had gone 7-5 last year it's still not up to my personal standard, and 5-7 makes no difference to me. First guy to 10 wins gets my vote, but no one is doing that with some of the clowns starting last year