By Ryne Hancock
SouthernPigskin.com

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In recruiting circles all across the country, for every Texas and Alabama there is an Eastern Michigan and Middle Tennessee.

To translate it for the reader, some fans enjoyed the day that was National Signing Day while some felt that National Signing Day was about as useless as a degree from Hamburger University.

While the Southern Pigskin staff spent hours on end coming up with our top 25 recruiting classes, I’ve decided at the urging of others to come up with five of the worst classes for this year and poke fun at their expense.

Thank me later.

Kansas State (10th in Big 12)

It’s hard to believe that the Wildcats would be on this list instead of their rivals in Lawrence.

But while Turner Gill is trying to build something special with a top 50 class, the Wildcats didn’t have any recruits that would be huge impacts in the fall.

The only solid pickup was JUCO quarterback Justin Tuggle, a product of Blinn College in Brennan, TX.

Care to guess who played for that same college a couple years back?

NC State (11th in ACC)

There is nothing wrong with recruiting kickers.

Without kickers, we would never have known names such as Al Del Greco, Scott Norwood, Josh Jasper, or Adam Vinateri.

But when it’s the big name in your recruiting class, then your staff is either brain-dead or you hired Stevie Wonder to recruit players.

Wake Forest (10th in ACC)

My good friends Briley Milfeld and Tameka Wooten last year told me stories about people with crazy names they knew in high school.

Including a person named Doofus.

I’m quite certain if a kid named Doofus can be razzed and teased for having a name like that in high school, chances are a kid that Wake signed for this year named Godspower Ofur endured years of ridicule .

The only thing that is saving him from more ridicule is the fact that he is going to a Baptist university.

Syracuse (7th in Big East)

The Orange returned to a bowl game last season, beating Kansas State in the New Era Pinstripe Bowl.

Despite the fact they have something to build on, the Orange celebrated their feat by signing a member of the Wu-Tang Clan.

A guy named Shutang.

Somewhere Method Man and RZA wasn’t available.

Vanderbilt (12th in the SEC)

Vanderbilt has given us Dan Wolken, Clay Travis, Sam Howard, Earl Bennett, Grantland Rice, and Robbie Caldwell.

While Coach James Franklin is making strides in getting the players that can fit his system, four quarterbacks in a recruiting class can create havoc on Natchez Trace.

But the good thing about it is the fact that if you get one more QB, you can have the next great boy band.