NCAA Recruiting By The Numbers - Buffalo

Well now that national signing day is over its time to step back and take a look at how coach Lance Leipold did.

There is no good way to measure what a recruit will be so I'm not going to obsess about national rankings or conference rankings. The best performing UB team of the Modern era was a motly crew in 2008 which consisted of a group of players nobody was drooling over. A close second was the 2013 team led by two current NFL guys who each had zero offers outside of Buffalo.

So when we start to disect this years class it's not in an effort to say "how awesome are these guys" or "man we really did not do well".

The quality of this class won't be known until 2017 at the earliest.

By then hopefully we can see Tyree Jackson fake the hand off to 1,500 yard rusher Johnathan Hawkins before throwing Emmanuel Reed his 10th touchdown reception of the seasons.

Still it's nice to look at who we got, where they came from, and what other teams wanted them.

Players Sitting on P5 Offers - 2 or 3

On paper the big name is Johnathan Hawkins, a running back out of Mill Creek high school in Hoschton, Georgia. Hawkins transferred from Central Gwinnett High School. Before he suited up he was holding offers from Arkansas, Auburn, and NC State.

On top of those offers Hawkins had a lot of other interest.

Buffalo also pulled a late recruit named Emmanuel Reed out of Florida who was reportedly holding offers from Wake Forest and Cal.

Finally they pulled Torey Hendrick a JUCO who would have been at Iowa last season had it not been for one missed college credit.

Players with G5 Offers - 11

Many of UB's G5 offer holders were also drawing serious interest from P5 schools. For example, Tyree Jackson had drawn a ton of interest from schools like Pitt. Despite some courting from Pitt and a late offer from UConn.

Aside from Jackson and Reed other incoming UB players with offers from "G5" schools were.Cameron Lewis, K.J. Osborn, Evin Ksiezarczyk, Duke Hwang, Justin Brandon, Roubbens Joseph, Torey Hendrick, and Tyler Mabry.

Players Holding MAC Offers - 6 Taking players wanted by other G5 schools is nice but getting a kid to pick you over a conference mate is better. Buffalo did that five times including Tyree Jackson.