National Signing Day: Bearcats Class of 2013

Today is national signing day. It's become a huge event in football circles. Unfortunately for me, I don't care about college football recruiting. At all. Apologies if you do. There are other sites that cover it more in depth. I asked people on twitter yesterday if anyone would be interested in covering this. No one replied. That's normally not a good sign. Who cares about me? Let's check out the UC class of 2013 from Go Bearcats.

Time	Signee	Pos.	Ht.	Wt.	Video	Hometown / School
Enrolled	Darren Doston	DB	6-2	195	Watch	Daytona Beach, Fla./Seabreeze/College of the Sequoas
Enrolled	Zach Edwards	DB	5-11	175	Watch	Middletown, Ohio/Middletown
Enrolled	Javon Harrison	ATH	6-1	190	Watch	Dayton, Ohio/Huber Hts. Wayne
Enrolled	Jerrell Jordan	DL	6-3	245	Watch	Alta Vista, Va./Alta Vista/Copiah-Lincoln CC
Enrolled	Kyle Williamson	OL	6-5	265	Watch	Madeira, Ohio/Madeira
7:31 a.m.	Mark Barr	WR	6-1	171	Watch	Fort Lauderdale, Fla./St. Thomas Aquinas
8:00 a.m.	Ben Flick	OL	6-6	260	Watch	Hamilton, Ohio/Hamilton
8:02 a.m.	Aaron Brown	DB	5-11	180	Watch	Miami, Fla./Northwestern
8:45 a.m.	Mark Wilson	DL	6-3	215	Watch	Hampton, Va./Phoebus
9:15 a.m.	Johnny Holton	WR	6-3	190	Watch	Miami, Fla./Coral Gables/College of DuPage
10:30 a.m.	Tshumbi Johnson	ATH	5-11	180	Watch	Immokalee, Fla./Immokalee
10:40 a.m.	Brent Stockstill	QB	6-0	190	Watch	Murfreesboro, Tenn./Siegel
11:10 a.m.	Terrrell Hartsfield	DL	6-4	245	Watch	Wake Forest, N.C./Rolesville/Copiah-Lincoln CC
12:00 p.m.	Mike Tyson	DB	6-2	190	Watch	Norfolk, Va./Lake Taylor/Hargrave Military Academy
12:00 p.m.	Howard Wilder	DB	6-0	185	Watch	Sea Pleasant, Md./Eleanor Roosevelt/Pierce College
1:10 p.m.	Tyler Cogswell	TE/ATH	6-4	225	Watch	Plantation, Fla./American Heritage
1:12 p.m.	Korey Cunningham	TE/DE	6-5	225	Watch	Montevallo, Ala./Montevallo
1:15 p.m.	Travis Johnson	TE	6-4	225	Watch	Tampa, Fla./Jesuit
1:20 p.m.	Hosey Williams	RB	5-11	205	Watch	Miami, Fla./Southridge/ASA
1:25 p.m.	Chris Burton	TE	6-4	245	Watch	Danville, Va./George Washington

Scout has Mike Tyson and Jerell Jordan as 4 star recruits. They rank Cincinnati's class 66th. They have Cincinnati with the 6th best class of the Big East. Rutgers is tops at 32. Louisville, UConn, Houston and USF come in at 54, 58, 59 and 62. SMU is at 68. UCF, Temple and Memphis are at 87, 94 and 95. 

Rivals tells a bit of a different story. They rank the Bearcats class at 102. That's under schools like FIU, Northern Illinois, and Navy. The same as Western Michigan. They don't have any of the UC recruits at 4 stars. Rivals has the Big East as it was last season in their conference rank. Pittsburgh has the best class, followed by Rutgers, USF, Louisville, UConn, Syracuse, Temple and Cincinnati. UC ranks under UCF, SMU, Memphis and Temple. So Rivals really doesn't like Cincinnati's class of 2013. Rivals has no star rankings for the JUCOs. 

Here is a little table to make this read easier. These are the average rankings of the Big East as of about 3 pm. It's next year's, for now, Big East. No Pitt, no Syracuse.