If memory serves me correctly, I got a lot of feedback — good and bad — over a turn-back-the-clock piece about recruiting in May. Basically, we revisited the 2010 signing class, recalled how it was hailed on the first Wednesday that February and then pointed out there were two NFL players and just one draft pick in a class that had 19 names.

Twelve players signed and either didn’t make it or didn’t last. Not coincidentally, that was the year Stewart famously said WVU needed “16 to 18 scholarships each year and two to three scholarships at each position max.” The risky quality-over-quantity plan set successor Dana Holgorsen back a few years as he tried to load and reload the roster.

Well, we’re near signing day again, and ESPN.com decided to look back but four years at the 2012 class and then re-grade every Big 12 school’s performance. That class was the first WVU took into the Big 12, and it produced some pretty valuable players, whether longtime starters, all-conference or all-America picks or or even pros.

But it, too, deal with major attrition, and that led to just a minor grade adjustment.