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Message: [QUOTE="Sudano, post: 929576, member: 822"] Recruiting is a competitive sport. Its all done in competition vs other teams, particularly teams in your conference because those are the teams you will be playing every year. This class is not a top 15 class, what it does do is allow us to compete in a very competitive league who's teams are all recruiting the next tier up from our old Big East days. There's a reason Florida State and the Clemson's of the world are good and that mostly lies in getting top recruits and beating other top feeders in the food chain of college recruiting. They are getting more 4 or 5 star recruits, we are not. Of course you can pick individual players who do not ultimately live up to expectations but recruiting is done in mass. I don't care about individual players I care about 25 of them. Its simple statistics to recruit alot of good players better than your competition so when a few don't live up to expectations you still have more in the talent funnel to easily take their place. Reduce margin of error. If you're only recruiting a few top recruits your margin of error for them and your overall team is much lower. A 2-3 star recruit doesn't mean they'll never contribute or become good it says that at this moment in time your overall skill is less than others. That doesn't project what the future holds its only the present and its more likely than not a higher rated player now will most likely be better judged on his base skills now but its not guaranteed. We misinterpret what the recruiting rating system is so much that we set up a strawman arguement that its useless. If used correctly the rating system is one tool us fans have insight into a process we will never have total access into to. Nothing is absolute but it is correlative. They're called diamonds in the rough because they are so rare, few and far between. To be a good team you need alot of really good players year after year and shouldn't rely on a concept that is rare and doesn't happen all the time. You can not base a program's future in getting 10 diamonds in the rough and expect to easily compete. You need players that live up to loftly expectations too. [/QUOTE]

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