How meaningful are STARS? Player evaluations

they are ranked in a star system based on athletic ability, size, and potential at the next level. Statistically, the best teams have had the best recruiting classes so it gives a decent representation of the talent coming in. They can't predict who will succeed in college because they don't know what drives an 18 year old to push themselves. Thats why you see some 5 star talents flop and 2/3 stars blossom.

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I personally don't think it mean much of anything talent is talent

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Not to sound like a smart arse or Bill Clinton, but it depends on what you mean by meaning. A ranking doesn't guarentee anything, its just an evaluation at certain time. There are a million and one factors that will determine whether a 5 * RB becomes B Brown or Trent Richardson. Certainly some 5 stars will bust and some 3 or 2 stars will become stars, but a higher percentage of 5* are stars than 3's. One problem is, there is no where to go but down for a 5 *, so if he's not a star player, people lash out at the rankings using 20/20 hindsight.

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......Should we care if Alabama is ranked ahead of us in these dam recruiting ranking?

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The top 2 classes in 2009 were Alabama and LSU. Look at the past team rankings and you see a lot of teams in the top 5 recruiting rankings competeing for the NC 2-3 years down the line. Again, its not a guarentee, a top ranking team can flop and a lesser ranked team can do well. But overall, a higher percentage of teams ranked in the top 5 had top 5 classes than #35 classes.

You can't put too much into the star/ranking system. It's a good guide, but not a hard line rule.

I don't put much of anything into the class rankings. Not a lot seperates the top ten ranked schools and hardly anything seperates the top five. There probably is a bigger difference between the school ranked #5 and ranked #25 though.

As for the individual player rankings, its a guess, albeit usually an educated guess, but its still a good guideline. Not a Rule.

this guy could be taken in the top 10 of the nba draft