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[QUOTE="SoBristol, post: 1645416, member: 485"]
Yes, I do have confidence that rankings reflect rough justice -- with room for error in a number of cases.  Fan can go overboard in trying to discount them because they like to believe that our hidden gems are better, or our coaches are better at development etc, or who can really compare etc., or players blossom or not, or what if the players don't stick or ...  
     
For starters, this class is almost entirely 3 stars (one two star DB who played WR and has good size and speed to convert to defense); as was the 2015 class.  It turns out that 2015 class did not have academic issues (one exception) and looks deep at this point. We have already seen some of the results -- Dungey, Frederick, Strickland, Clark.  It was a highly rated class for good reason, as it turns out.   It does not show up in stars, but Babers and his staff seem to have allowed guys with qualification issues to de-commit, and his commits seem OK on the qualification score, and also good in terms of size & speed (check out the 4 OL recruits, for example, and also look at their videos).

Not saying the measures are perfect.  Some will always say it takes 4 or 5 years to judge a class -- or some white chips turn into blue chips etc.  Usually, the selector schools don't have to be defensive about their classes.
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