It's impressive only if you are new to recruiting. Seeing as teams that regularly finish with top 5 recruiting rankings have hardly any commitments and far down in the rankings, that tells you that most programs see little point in taking commitments right now. When those recruits don't stick after the bag schools come knocking, Rutgers plan B targets will say, "You didn't offer before because you had someone else committed and now suddenly you want to show me some love? No thanks." And that is how you end up with plan C and plan D kids (see Miami for examples). It gets newbies excited to see the class rankings this far out, but the fun ends when your top recruits take bags and "respect my decision" season starts.
One of Paterno's assistant coaches provided sworn testimony that Schiano knew what Sandusky was up to. Did he perjure himself to make Schiano look bad? I suppose that is possible but seems highly unlikely. I wish failure and ill fortune on Schiano as there is little doubt in my mind that he was aware that Sandusky was diddling children.
