Myth - LSU won the Sugar Bowl only on Saban's recruits

After hearing little Nicky claim credit for the Sugar Bowl win today in his presser in Tuscaloosa for his talent winning the game, I found this...

From Speedy on tigerdroppings

Our recruiting has fallen to dangerous levels. Once Saban's players leave the program, we are going to be in MAJOR trouble.

I mean, since Miles has been headcoach, here are some of the players that he has recruited who have had had no impact this year:

Darry Beckwith
Ciron Black
Trindon Holliday
Ricky Jean-Francois
Jacob Cutrera
Brandon LaFell
Richard Dickson
Richard Murphy
Charles Scott
Keiland Williams

The cupboard is bare. Les has wasted his time in filling it with this crap:
Chris Hawkins
R.J. Jackson
Steven Korte
Ryan Perrilloux
Rahim Alem
Ricky Dixon
Jai Eugene
Chris Mitchell
Jared Mitchell
Derrick Odom
Zhamal Thomas
Al Woods


Here are some of the players who played in last night's game that Saban can't take an ounce of credit for:

Brandon LaFell
Keiland williams
Darry Beckwith
Trindon Holliday
Rahim Alem
R.J. Jackson
Chris Hawkins
Danny McCray
Jacob Cutrera
Richard Dickson
Chris Mitchell
Jared Mitchell Al Woods

Myth: Saban is a better recruiter than Miles

Fact: Miles' recruiting classes at LSU are better than Sabans According to Rivals, here are the average star rating of Sabans recruting classes from 2002, that is as far back as they go to 2004:
2002: 3.23
2003: 3.68, this is the year that we had the #1 recruiting class in the country
2004: 3.54

Now compare those numbers to Miles
2005: 3.69 - His very first class was higher than Saban's best
2006: 3.64
2007: 3.58

Saban's average: 3.48
Miles' average: 3.64

Uh oh. That can be right, can it?
Miles has been outrecruting Saban? Looks that way