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It would be interesting to go back and do a retrospective reranking of our classes, based on actual accomplishments while at Stanford (5* = all-American caliber, 4* = all-Conference, 3* = starter, 2* = significant contributor, 1* = non-contributor).

At the top end it might be tough to beat the class of 2008 with David DeCastro, Chris Owusu, Delano Howell, Michael Thomas III, Chase Thomas, Jonathan Martin, and some guy named Andrew Luck (there were also a few busts in that class).

At one point somebody (ESPN I think) did that for the 2009 class, and determined Stanford's should have been something like #2 or #3.

That was the class of Ben Gardner, Stepfan Taylor, Tyler Gaffney, Terrence Brown, Josh Mauro, Trent Murphy, Ertz, Toilolo etc.
Lots of unheralded guys who ended up being good players - and heralded guys who turned out well also.

[CTcard]

It would be interesting to go back and do a retrospective reranking of our classes, based on actual accomplishments while at Stanford (5* = all-American caliber, 4* = all-Conference, 3* = starter, 2* = significant contributor, 1* = non-contributor).

At the top end it might be tough to beat the class of 2008 with David DeCastro, Chris Owusu, Delano Howell, Michael Thomas III, Chase Thomas, Jonathan Martin, and some guy named Andrew Luck (there were also a few busts in that class).

At one point somebody (ESPN I think) did that for the 2009 class, and determined Stanford's should have been something like #2 or #3.

That was the class of Ben Gardner, Stepfan Taylor, Tyler Gaffney, Terrence Brown, Josh Mauro, Trent Murphy, Ertz, Toilolo etc.
Lots of unheralded guys who ended up being good players - and heralded guys who turned out well also.