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Message: [QUOTE="billsin01, post: 295693, member: 837"] It certainly wasn't my intention to call you out and it is interesting to note the drastic increase in percentage of 3 star recruits last season. I think my point is more about the validity of stars relative to production. I don't feel like going through each player, but from a glance I'd argue that they have found at least as many productive, solid prospects from their two stars as they have their three. Lyn, for example was a 2 star, while Rishard Anderson and Jeremi Wilkes were 3s. IMO, there is absolutely no question who the best player of that trio is and it's the guy that had just two stars next to his name. Chibane and Pugh are, by most accounts, our best OL. They were two-star kids. Certainly our most consistent, productive receiver is Lemon -- 2 star. Most feel Terrell Hunt -- a three star -- is our future at QB but most also feel Kinder -- a three star -- is never going to play a down (note: this may be the exact reverse of what happens, but it seems to be the consensus). Then you take all the three stars and somehow Diabate (an undersized LB from JUCO) rated the same number of stars as Richie Desir, Durrell Eskridge, Brandon Reddish and Cam Lynch -- guys that by most accounts are considered the future of the defense. Regardless, my point is more that I think the recruiting has likely improved due to the staff developing better relationships with schools, getting to know kids earlier, honing their evaluation/recruiting tactics ... But I just think stars are about as inexact as science or statistics get. So I'd tend to agree that we appear to have improved our recruiting, I just think most statisticians would throw up in their mouths if we used stars as substantiation for that claim. [/QUOTE]

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