National Signing Day 2012: 5 Big-Time Schools with Awful Recruiting Classes

Having a bad recruiting class is one thing. But having a bad recruiting class at solid, if not big time program is another. These are five schools that fit the mold of the latter.

You may be upset, because your favorite school is on this list, but hey, the truth hurts. Here are five programs with just downright bad classes, that should breathe and attract solid talent.

Let's get started, because obviously these programs haven't.

5. Kansas

Now, don't get me wrong—I know Kansas isn't exactly Alabama when it comes to football, but Scout.com has these guys barely inside the national top 100 classes.

That's awful.

Sure Charlie Weis has only had a few weeks to get his staff rounded up, so this falls on Turner Gill if you ask me. Fifteen commitments and only 4-star or even 3-star players—sheesh.

4. Boston College

What happened to BC? This used to be a great program that would challenge year in and year out. Not these days, and it looks like this class won't help.

Scout.com lists Boston College with the second-worst class in the ACC and at 70th nationally. Ouch.

3. Kansas State

Bill Snyder is not a staunch recruiter, but he usually nabs the JUCO market pretty well. Anyways, his recruiting class this year still isn't any good.

He's got the second-worst class in the Big 12 and only the 86th-best class in the nation via Scout.com. There's no 4-star recruits in this class either.

No bueno, K-State.

2. Wake Forest

Again, Wake Forest isn't Florida in football, but this recruiting class still isn't good by their standards. Scout.com has them with the worst class in the ACC and ranked 72nd nationally.

Jim Grobe has 19 commitments, which is cool, but only nine players are even 3-star recruits. Talent is lacking in this class.

1. Nebraska

I have Nebraska as perhaps my biggest recruiting disappointment this cycle. I liked their 2011 class and thought, with a buzzing move to the Big Ten, they'd do even better this year.

Now, I know they sit pretty for 5-star OT Andrus Peat, but I expected better than the 57th-best class nationally and the third-worst class in the Big Ten, per Scout.com from Nebraska.

They have 14 pledges, and a few players I actually dig. But this class isn't the best Lincoln has seen and more was expected out of this recruiting cycle.