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Message: [QUOTE="billsin01, post: 375542, member: 837"] I couldn't really disagree with this more. Recruiting rankings are fun for fans and, generally, you will get a good recruit if he has four or five stars. But to try and compare classes and suggest that there is any sort of predictive value or correlation beyond the obvious (good programs get ranked in the top 40 year in and year out) is basically absurd. A bunch of rag-tag freelance writers with basically no talent evaluation credentials using some sort of ambiguous ranking system to figure out who will be in the top 25? I'm not buying that. And that's not even taking into account all the things that they can't really predict (i.e. how hard a kid works, the system he's in, the coaching situation, injuries, off-field incidents ...). In fact, you want a top 40 for this year right now? Take almost the entire SEC, the upper half of the big 10, big 12, pac 10 and acc, a couple good BE schools and Notre Dame. There you go. [/QUOTE]