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Message: [QUOTE="billsin01, post: 3044401, member: 837"] We were never a top 25 recruiting program in the 90s yet, more often than not, we were a top-25 team. How could that possibly happen with accurate recruiting rankings? Furthermore, when so much of a football player's career (even at a school like alabama, to be honest) is determined by the work they put in and the coaching they receive the ensuing 4 or 5 years, how could anyone really know how to rank kids specifically. Getting higher ranked kids is great but the reality of this program is, and outside of the remote possibility that we invest heavily in the program and Dino builds something more or less unprecedented, always will be that we need to identify talent in the 2/3-star group and develop them into contributors/really good players/studs. Even if we're landing a group of 4/5-star kids (which would be great and could obviously happen), the balance of the class is every bit as important. [/QUOTE]