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Once again demonstrating that "recruiting stars" is the most useless non-statistic in sports, and only counts in video games
who exactly are these people who distribute "stars," and how do they hook up their highly sensitive Talent-o-Meters on unsuspecting high schoolers?
an example of how this often works: Iowa recently signed a kid named Jestin Jacobs, the proverbial 3-star Hawkeye recruit. He received a couple of late offers from Ohio State and Michigan, and *voila!* he's suddenly a 4/5 star.
Not saying talent isn't important. It's that judges of it are, in many cases, crap. It was amazing watching that Wisconsin-Miami game listening to announcers rave about Miami's "talent" while the Badgers were stomping them a new mudhole.
I'm gonna go out on a limb here and say a lot of those guys on Miami's roster weren't recruited because they were 4/5*, they were 4/5* because they were recruited by Miami.
