2002 Class

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syriakid

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Possibly the best Texas class ever (on paper). Six 5-stars, 15 4-stars, 28 total players signed. You know who the headliner is...

Now let's examine closely the 5 and 4 stars. I marked the players who fulfilled their star rating in my opinion with Yes. The ones who didn't live up to the rating got No.

Justin Blalock ***** Yes
Marquis Johnson ***** No
Edorian McCullough ***** No
Bryan Pickryl ***** No
Rodrique Wright ***** Yes
Vincent Young ***** who's he?
Larry Dibbles **** No
Albert Hardy **** No
Aaron Harris **** No
Tully Janszen **** No
Marco Martin **** No
Chase Pittman **** No
Aaron Ross **** Yes
Lyle Sendlein **** Yes
Garnet Smith **** No
Kasey Studdard **** Yes+
David Thomas **** Yes+
Robert Timmons **** No
Neale Tweedie **** No
Michael Williams **** No
Selvin Young **** Yes

Oh and there is one Brian Robison, a 3-star player...

The point? Get as many 4's and 5's as you can, so that the few that pan out are enough to bring in the trophy.
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it's an interesting exercise... it'd be really interesting to see this kind of breakdown on other monster classes, just to see how the numbers pan out. Maybe in a few years we can look at some of Florida's and USC's classes of the last two years... and who knows, maybe we'll have another monster class or two in there somewhere.
 
Exactly every year we get some kind of breakdown of that class like this. What exactly does fullfilled their 4 or 5 star status mean? Some of those guys were really good but transferred due to grades or playing time issues. They weren't busts. Then there were guys that had injuries but I wouldn't put them in the bust category either.

Then there is your putting a no on guys like Dibbles, Harris, and Sendlein.

What I see is 3 five star and 7 four star that lived up to their potential and some that possibly exceeded it. When you get 10 guys like that in a class then you get a great f'ing class, regardless of how many no's are in there.
 
Stuff like this just reaffirms how silly it is to get all worked up over stars and rankings. As long as you've got good, solid players in your class and you're addressing the needs of the team, you're doing everything you can to be successful.

Going crazy over whether a recruit is a 5 or 4 star is useless because only half pan out anyway. Can anybody argue that Aaron Ross, starting in the Super bowl his rookie season, was not a 5 star player?
 
Ross was burned because he had to go one on one with the other teams best reciever with no safety help ever because our safetys ever since huff left have had no clue where to line up or when to give help. So cut him some slack because every cb gets burnt sometimes if you have no one else to depend on for some help.
 
I think NT did everything asked of him and was a very nice additon. I'd say he lived up to my expctns--at least call that one a 'push'
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Aaron Harris played close to all-conference level his junior year, and as noted, started three years. He was an absolute beast in the Michigan Rose Bowl.

Just because he fell off senior year and didn't make the NFL doesn't make him a bust.
 
Very good comments everyone... So the point again is: get as many 4's and 5's as you can. Even with transfers, injuries, and busts, you still have enough left over to win a NC. When you get 15 in a class, odds are you don't have enough talent...
 
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