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[QUOTE="SWC75, post: 526909, member: 289"]
I once asked Jim Boeheim whether this was true: If a player at age 25 is an NBA starter, he was 20% of what he was going to be coming out of high school and 80% coming out of college. the star ratings are snapshots of what a player is at a particular point in time. Some are incorrectly evaluated. Some are correctly evaluated but have or haven't peaked yet. Some will get injured. Some will have academic or disciplinary problems. Some won't have the work ethic or will have a "superstar attitude". Others do and don't.
 
Is it better to have a highly rated class than not? Sure, especially if you get a series of them. But that doesn't guarantee success and not getting high ratings doesn't guarantee failure. Every major power in the country has had season or stretches when they weren't that good: Alabama, Oklahoma, Nebraska, Michigan, Ohio State, USC, Notre Dame, Miami, Florida State, etc. etc.  Schools like Boise State, Oregon, Stanford, TCU and Wisconsin that weren't big powers have become powers. Supposedly dormant programs like Kansas State and Baylor have gotten good. The whole thing isn't rigged.
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