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Your stupidity is ruining my country.
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UConnDan97 said:And 5 losses.
Again, I don't understand why people are so offended that the star ratings matter in aggregate. Whaler is correct in saying that it is a mathematics game. If your team is full of players from the top 200, then you are going to win a crap-ton of games. If your team is full of 2-star players, you are going to drop a few games at minimum. That's the way it goes.
And again, UConn has to focus on getting the absolute best 2 and 3 star kids we can, because our program is not currently attractive enough for the top200 recruits. But that's okay. We actually happen to be in a league where we can win a crap-ton of games with the right 2- and 3-star kids! We aren't playing in the SEC or the B1G (yet). So let's continue to focus on what we can do, and continue to try to do it well. But it shouldn't offend people's sensibilities that the 5 star kids are really really really good players...
Star ratings do matter on average, they are just not the end all be all. There can be a huge difference in actual results from the recruiting ranking. And not all four starts are better than three starts and a few two stars turn put to be better.
We have no idea. What we do know is that rated guys get more attention and just about every P5 program gets to eat before we do. Some like our coach, school, location, playing time, dairy bar, whatever and decide this is the right place. But for most guys that have a lot of offers, they also come with issues that cause them to fall to us, on average of course.
So, if you tell me a kid has offers from PSU, MD, UVA and doesn't have some connection to us, I'm skeptical that he's gonna pan put more often that some no name two star kid from MA that the coach is high on. Not a widely shared opinion, but it's mine.
I'll take shots on highly ranked kids all day because there won't be many. But, the program is gonna win with hard nosed blue collar guys who exceed their HS rating. I also like kids from states where football is a religion, even though they might also have been passed over by top programs. The loss of the GA pipeline has probably hurt more than we realize.