All Big Ten Rankings as Recruits

[Gopher Broke]

http://espn.go.com/blog/bigten/post/_/id/22910/how-all-big-ten-team-ranked-as-recruits

Just trying to throw another log onto the recruiting rankings fire in this forum.

 

[LonelyIowaGopher]

Fantastic article!

Thanks for this fantastic article! Here's how the Big 10 All-conference players break down by their original recruiting status:
Five Stars--One
Four Stars--Five
Three Stars--Six
Two Stars--Six
One Star--Two
Unranked--Six
More players were ranked below Three Stars than were Three Stars and above.

 

[everybody knows my name]

Someone's going to say it; might as well be me. Evaluating student-athletes is an inexact science.

 

[Monty519]

Sazenbacher was a 4 star on Scout and 5.6 on Rivals. Mikel LeShoure was a 5.7 recruit on Rivals and a 3 star on Scout. Gabe Carimi was a 5.7 on Rivals and 3 star on Scout as well. Moffit was a little less hearalded but still a 3 star on Rivals. Don't feel like looking all the lower ranked guys, but I mean just cause ESPN botched it up and ignored them or had them low don't mean they came out of nowhere lol. The more "reliable" services saw some talent in these kids. This is why you can't just look at one.

 

[Curseislifted33]

you also have to realize how many more players are ranked 3 stars than 5 stars

 

[eker0016]

you also have to realize how many more players are ranked 3 stars than 5 stars

Agreed. No one is saying that 0-3 star players can't turn out to be studs and be drafted in the first round all the time.

If you look at relative percentages (how many five stars were all conference divided by how many total five star players there are in the conference, etc.) I think you would find that the most highly rated kids tend to be all conference more often.

I don't think any (rational) person believes that a 5 star recruit will for sure be better than a 3 star recruit simply because Tom Lemming put 2 extra gold stars by his name. It's a probability game -- plain and simple.