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Message: [QUOTE="ImperialOrange, post: 404934, member: 362"] FWIW I've follwed Cuse a long time, at 28 years old now followed more years in my life than I haven't. I stopped caring as much for star ratings after the 03-06 classes with tons of highly rated 4 star guys that never panned out as advertised or at all in some cases. Mookie Watkins, Louie McCrosky, Terrence Roberts, Dayshawn Wright, Josh Wright, Emmanuel Mayben, Mike Jones and Paul Harris were all high 4 or 5 star recruits in that time frame. If you're new or newer to Cuse hoops you may have heard of exactly 2 of those guys. In 05 we landed Not Ranked no star Andy Rautins, in 07 we cleaned up and the recruiting service was close to accurate, 08 brought 4 stars Kris Jo and Mookie Jones and 3 star James Southerland (recruiting service had the last 2 reversed obviously), 09 brought 3 star Triche and 4 star Dash Riley (hmmmm), and since then we've absolutely killed it in recruiting. So it's really hard to take recruiting service's word over our coaches who saw something in lower rated guys that the recruiting services didn't and missed on some of the same higher rated guys the recruiting services did. In the meantime the coaches nabbed early commits from Dion Waiters, and MCW before they were known commodities and were all over Anthony Davis before Kentucky even considered dropping off duffle bags of cash for him. Chris McCullough seems to be next on that list hough. He's highly rated now but our coaches have been after him for quite awhile even when others were rated higher. End game, don't get too caught up in online rankings. They are nice eye candy but don't always predict elite vs not so well. Also, don't be surprised to see some of our 2013 recruits have great years and end up being rated much higher by signing day. [/QUOTE]

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