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[QUOTE="SoBristol, post: 144644, member: 485"]
And often (not always) they would be right.  When we landed Hogue, Carter, Williams, Sales, Collier, we were pretty happy with the stars.  In the case of Williams (committed early, but with 2 stars), the coaches were happy he had the measurables and had athletic ability shown on the basketball court.   When the coaches find an Art Monk or Joe Morris or Ernie Davis or Chris Gedney, they know it and recruitniks know it.  
 
It is a crap shoot (agree with CIL) if you want to guess which of 3 or 4 highly rated QBs will have the best shot at a Heisman.  But there are reasons we are happy with Thompson as a TE recruit on our commit list (size, speed, good hands, highly rated, offers from good programs).
 
The best source (again, agree with CIL) is how the coaches rate our recruits -- if they say this is our deepest and strongest class in 10 years, I take that as reliable. But the basis of comparison (our own recruiting) isn't the standard we want to use -- ---
  
For a better yardstick, you can compare our commits versus our rivals by using the Scout site and scanning Toledo, Temple, BC, Rutgers, Pitt, Louisville.  List our top 10 commits (by ratings, metrics, offers) and do the comparison.    Which group would you rather have?   We are definitely catching up, but more like Temple and Toledo than BC, Rutgers, Pitt and Louisville.  We still lack our share of the better skill players, highly ranked OLs, and highly rated DEs with prime size.   Doing better, but doing well enough?
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