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[QUOTE="SWC75, post: 277275, member: 289"]
He noted that 1 in 13 Five Stars became All-Americans and then warns us not to view five stars as players who are [I]supposed [/I]to become All-Americans but simply as players more likely to. He acknowledges that a lot of Two and Three Stars become all Americans but says that since they are 85% of the total recruits, you'd expect some of them to become All-Americans.
 
When teams recruit top players and don't do well, that's attributed to "bad coaching". I did like this paragraph:
"Elite recruiting is necessary but not sufficient to have an elite team. That is, it won't guarantee you an elite team, but if you don't recruit at an elite level, you will be guaranteed [I]not[/I] to have a consistently elite team." We've never been a "consistently elite team". We'd like to be consistently good and occassionally elite. That's our history when we are good.
 
I don't think anyone doubts that schools that consistently have higher-rated recrutiing class will be better most of the time than schools that don't. But I don't think we are in a position to suddenly have a top recruiting class. We have to win our way to that level with the players we can get. It's therefore encouraging to see some Two and Three star recruits make the college All-American lists. It can be done.
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