How Much Difference Between 4 star and 5 Star Recruits

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Malachi Dupre and Trey Quinn

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Came to LSU to learn how to run block in an Les Miles offense

Reality is classes can’t be predominantly 5-star players. The recruiting services don’t rate that many kids that high every year.

So, a mix of 4 & 3-star kids, with more 4 than 3, properly evaluated by the staff, can do just fine.

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Reality is classes can’t be predominantly 5-star players. The recruiting services don’t rate that many kids that high every year.

So, a mix of 4 & 3-star kids, with more 4 than 3, properly evaluated by the staff, can do just fine.

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Whoa, whoa, whoa. Slow down on the logic there, buddy. It's of no use here.

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On3 has this cool draft by stars page check it out

Recruiting websites overall are a big scam to a certain degree. Those services want to sell subscriptions, so naturally when a certain program has a lot of subscribers, those recruits are going to get a bump in stars once they commit because it keeps the subscribers happy.

Now with the transfer portal and NIL, those services are having to revamp how they do business because a large portion of recruits jump ship after one year or two. As far as accuracy, it's about 50-50. They hit on some and miss on just as many, but you never hear about those because that's not good for business.

The reality is if you have a top 10 recruiting class, you've done very well based on recruiting websites, but you really won't know the real value of a recruiting class until 3 or 4 years down the road because a large portion of those recruits will be on another team's roster.

That is actually impressive how successful they are rating 5 stars

Zero difference. You must develop the talent

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wonder if that fifth star affects the odds of being drafted. I mean from a psychological or expectation perspective, rather than the actual college production.

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I mean it gets you more chances to get on the field…

I look at stars more as a metric for probability of success more than a direct comparative analysis. Additionally the higher rated kids generally have better physical attributes for football.