SEC Recruiting Update

Everyone has a complaint about all of these services.

I mean just look at the results on the field, obviously our high ranking each year are only due to bias.

Hardly… there is a pretty big correlation between great recruiting classes and great teams.

Now it’s certainly not a foregone conclusion, but every team needs a handful of gamebreaking All-Stars if they want to seriously compete for titles… and a 5-star guy is A LOT more likely to be that guy than any 3 or 4 star player.

Just for the heck of it, let’s look at the 2012 AP All-American team.
QB – Robert Griffin III, Baylor = 4-stars, #4 QB
RB – Montee Ball, Wisconsin = 4-stars, #33 RB
RB – Trent Richardson, Alabama = 5-stars, #2 RB
T- Barret Jones, Alabama = 4-stars, #1 C
T – Matt Kalil, USC = 5-stars, #3 T
G – David DeCastro, Stanford = 3-stars, #11 C
G – Kevin Zeitler, Wisconsin = 3-stars, #39 G
C – David Molk, Michigan = 3-stars, #5 C
TE – Dwayne Allen, Clemson = 4-stars, #12 TE
WR – Justin Blackmon, OkState = 3-stars, #91 WR
WR – Robert Woods, USC = 5-stars, #1 Athlete
All-Purpose – Sammy Watkins, Clemson = 5-stars, #3 WR

E – Melvin Ingram, South Carolina = 4-stars, #21 LB
E – Whitney Mercilus, Illinois = 3-stars, #28 DE
T – Devon Still, Penn State = 4-stars, #10 DE
T – Jerel Worthy, Michigan State = 3-stars, #53 DT
LB – Luke Kuechly, Boston College = 3-stars, #44 LB
LB – Jarvis Jones, Georgia = 4-stars, #4 LB
LB – Dont’a Hightower, Alabama = 4-stars, #15 LB
CB – Morris Claiborne, LSU = 3-stars, #58 CB
CB – Tyrann Mathieu, LSU = 4-stars, #13 CB
S – Mark Barron, Alabama = 4-stars, #5 Athlete
S – Bacarri Rambo, Georgia = 3-stars, #40 Athlete

K – Randy Bullock, Texas A&M = 3-stars, #5 K
P – Brad Wing, LSU = 3-stars, #5 K

25 total players
4 5-star players(16%)
10 4-star players(40%)
11 3-star players(44%)
0 1 and 2-star players
56% 4 and 5 star players shows a pretty strong correlation for highly ranked players to be very successful… 61% if you take away kickers and punters
85% for offensive skill position players