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What does that mean?

It means they consistently are rated by recruiting services as performing very well. Put it this way: there hasn't been a national championship winner in the BCS era that has averaged higher than 12 on its four-year recruiting rankings. The only teams to come close are Virginia Tech and Oregon.

You do it for the guys we recruit not for hundreds of prospects. Oh and the samples are endless, Sam Bradford, Johnny Football, Luke Kuechly, Golden Tate, Alex Mack, Ka'Deem Carey and a 100 others who had every possible trait you could look for in a prospect but because they didn't have a lot of fan fare were rated as low-end recruits by Rivals, Scout etc.

Golden Tate was a highly rated player. Rivals had him as the seventh-best athlete in the country.

Anyway, the point isn't to quibble about specific examples -- they obscure. The question is, what do the macro numbers look like? The average five star is twice as likely to get drafted and twice as likely to become an All-American as an average four star, which is in turn about twice as likely to get drafted and twice as likely to become an All-American as a three star, which is turn much more likely than a two star to accomplish those two things.

[washingtonismoney]

What does that mean?

It means they consistently are rated by recruiting services as performing very well. Put it this way: there hasn't been a national championship winner in the BCS era that has averaged higher than 12 on its four-year recruiting rankings. The only teams to come close are Virginia Tech and Oregon.

You do it for the guys we recruit not for hundreds of prospects. Oh and the samples are endless, Sam Bradford, Johnny Football, Luke Kuechly, Golden Tate, Alex Mack, Ka'Deem Carey and a 100 others who had every possible trait you could look for in a prospect but because they didn't have a lot of fan fare were rated as low-end recruits by Rivals, Scout etc.

Golden Tate was a highly rated player. Rivals had him as the seventh-best athlete in the country.

Anyway, the point isn't to quibble about specific examples -- they obscure. The question is, what do the macro numbers look like? The average five star is twice as likely to get drafted and twice as likely to become an All-American as an average four star, which is in turn about twice as likely to get drafted and twice as likely to become an All-American as a three star, which is turn much more likely than a two star to accomplish those two things.