When all is said and done...after the noise of your arguments based upon dissecting star ratings...ranking...merit or lack of merit: the number of Big Ten wins achieved by P J Fleck over the course of his tenure here at Minnesota will answer with precision exactly how well P J was able to compete in the Big Ten Conference with the stars and their rankings of his recruits. It will also factor in his coaching ability. It will tell us how the ball bounced during his time in Minneapolis. We will be able to compare how he did compared to TC, Kill, Brewster, Mason, Wacker, Gutty, Hoax, Salem, Stoll, Murray, Fessler and Bierman, himself.
So, argue it out boys and girls. Call each other names. Insinuate anything you want. Try to prove it with your words. Convince others to join your point of view. Do this all with passion, conviction and strong beliefs. My way takes all the fantasy out of high school multi-star football recruiting at the University of Minnesota and in other spots in the Big Ten Conference. In my method: optimal emphasis is placed on the results of REAL Big Ten Football Games that have actually been played AND completed. I suppose that is rather boring...but: it works.
My way will break it all down into precise percentages and completely rank and rate the effectiveness of guessing how the star ranking system of this era works against the time-tested old method of counting Big Ten wins and contrasting them with Big Ten losses. It can't be valid including ooc games because there is such a variance of relative strength of the southwest, northeast, mountain, little sisters of the poor types of teams the ooc schedule is so notorious for.
In the end, my ranking system will be able to answer all of your star-gazing assumptions and guesses.
