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The study uses 247sports' recruit rankings as the gold standard (naturally). But another explanation for doing well in this scoring system, in addition to a program doing a good job developing players relative to other programs, is that the program does a better job than 247sports at evaluating high school players (as the article acknowledges in passing--they admit they are most interested in learning how programs do with the 4 and 5 star players).

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The study uses 247sports' recruit rankings as the gold standard (naturally). But another explanation for doing well in this scoring system, in addition to a program doing a good job developing players relative to other programs, is that the program does a better job than 247sports at evaluating high school players (as the article acknowledges in passing--they admit they are most interested in learning how programs do with the 4 and 5 star players).