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[QUOTE="RF2044, post: 3383997, member: 40"]
Or maybe -- call me crazy -- DO BOTH, and consider multiple factors.  Outside of an elite, small group of blue chippers, football recruiting ratings are imprecise as hell, because there are thousands of recruits each year, nationwide.  And some get far less exposure than others.

If we were recruiting in the same stratosphere as Ohio State or Clemson, then stars alone would be a good barometer, because we'd be selecting from an already pre-identified and evaluated group of known commodities.  Since that's not our lane, fans need to dig a bit deeper.  Which is why for our program...

Stars don't tell the entire story.

Neither do offers.

And neither does film.

That's why it is completely asinine to only focus on one form of evaluation, and pretend that the others don't exist.

It is also important to mention that the coaching staff has their own, extremely detailed, through, and well researched recruiting board -- with prioritized rankings that they come up with internally.  Said recruiting board isn't based upon Rivals or Skwout ratings.  So when we land a guy like Nelson or Hough that we prioritized extremely high on the list, that says a lot more than their current ratings.

Hough is a two-star currently, for example.  People who are wringing their hands about him "only" being a two-star, and evidence that we aren't recruiting well, are completely off target.
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