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[QUOTE="billsin01, post: 1803233, member: 837"]
I'd argue it really doesn't matter that much on signing day either. I know I'm pretty much alone on this -- though I agree with everyone else that I'd rather have a class full of 4-star kids than 2-star kids -- but the idea that people still worry about stars is pretty funny to me. It would be one thing if kids only came out of the woodwork to be really good/great players or NFL-level talent, but it happens all the time.

This is going by memory and not scientific, but if you look at the kids drafted since like '06 (random date figuring on about 10 years), for example, you have plenty of guys who came in and were expected to be pretty darn good from the start: LaCasse, Anthony and Kelvin Smith, Durand, Hogue, Carter, Tiller, Shamarko Thomas, Pugh and Spruill.

But there were a lot of guys who didn't come here with much fanfare at all: The Jones brothers, Tanard Jackson, Fiametta, Bromley, Nassib, Mike Williams and Ojinnaka (I'm not really sure on Dixon so I'll put him here as well).

Granted, the overall theme might be that we haven't had too much talent selected in the past decade, including getting shut out in 2015, but at the same time, it's not like there is anything close to a direct line drawn between 4-star kids and future NFL draft selections.

The bottom line is you need a staff at Syracuse that can turn over stones to find Mike Williams and Jay Bromley as well as a staff that can battle and occasionally lane Delone Carter and Doug Hogue. To get too concerned over stars or to treat them as some sort of definitive evaluation of a recruiting class is misguided in my opinion.
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