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Message: [QUOTE="CUSU, post: 1425247, member: 2908"] Yes, the rankings match up with the results. The point the people against the star system are trying to make is that the recruiting sites are essentailly just predicting team success not a recruits success. It's easy to say Alabama, Ohio State, Georgia, etc. are going to have success, thus giving most of their recruits 4 or 5 stars upon interest or commitment. The opposite happens when a player commits to a lesser school and sometimes even sees their rating go down, at best stay the same. They are saying eh, that kid committed to X program and they havent been a perrenial power, 3 star at best. When that kid could be as good as a 4 star kid who got his rating for commiting to a certain shcool. Is that always the case? No, but sometimes it is. Do their predictions hold true? Most of the time yes because they are saying these perennial powers are going to be good, but there is no way to say this individual player is better than another when they are on totally different teams etc. As a whole the perrenial powers are better, but how much of that can be correlated to indivual players star rating. I don't know, but I would wager it has more to do with the program in place and coaching. Yes, the 4 and 5 star classes are beating the 3 and 2 star ones. 9 times out of 10 Ohio State would beat Syracuse last year, or an even higher percentage. What this analysis doesn't take into account is other factors in the whole picture of wins and losses. It is not just the players that are winning games, while they are a big part of it, a lot of it comes down to gameplanning (coaching) and player development (coaching). These sites are just adapting to trends. Duke had 1 star rating but has done well, but as you know now they are getting all these 4 star recruits. These sites are saying, Duke has turned it around we better give their players better ratings. I would have to look at things much closer, but it is my gut feeling on the whole thing. [/QUOTE]

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