It's still guesswork and doesn't take into account the greatest variable of all: the space between their ears.
Yeah, a lot goes with early press clippings. Someone at a school that doesn't get a lot of attention or someone who doesn't develop until later in the high school career may not get the rating they deserve or maybe they just aren't in a good program. I think the five-stars are usually rated where they should be though; it's the lower levels that can get lost.
Heck, I know a kid that has been injured his sophomore and junior years, so he's only played around 6 games total. He's visited numerous SEC and a few ACC schools and has several offers from P5 schools. Teams just want to see how he does in his senior year.
Yah, I meant individual rankings. There's obviously correlation to high recruiting rankings and winning, but on an individual level, it's not nearly as scientific as some seem to believe.
Right. Josh Jacobs was a 3* that not many recruited because he didn't attend camps and his coach didn't send out his film early enough.
Cody and Reed were 3*s because they went to JUCO. Most recruiting sites don't rank JUCO guys above 3*.
Very will put. Anybody that says the star rankings don't mean anything don't follow it very closely. During the Shula years we typically got 4-5 players who were 4* and the rest were 3* or less.
