Bad taste of REALITY:After NLI’s and Signing Day, ‘The Star(*****) System’ comes under major scrutiny/question?

Coming in from this week’s Wall Street Journal, with the just-completed National Signing Day for College Football, we are seeing more and more about the ‘Star(*****) System” and what it means to player evaluation, in regards to the colleges’ recruitment of star high school football players……

Scout.com’s Top Five NC High Schol Players from this year’s Class of 2012:
RB Keith Marshall(Millbrook HS) Committed to Georgia *****
OT D.J. Humphries(Mallard Creek HS) Committed to Florida *****
DE Jonathan Bullard(Crest Senior HS) Committed to Florida *****
DT Carlos Watkins(Chase HS) Committed to Clemson ****
S Rhaheim Ledbetter(Crest Senior HS) Committed to Florida ****
(Full list CLICK HERE for Scout.com)

from www.wsj.com:

In a four-year period between 2004 and 2007, for example, the University of Miami landed six five-star recruits. But only one of them was drafted in the NFL. Only one other even managed to make an NFL team.

“All the five-star players think that they’re going to go off to the NFL,” said Mike Farrell, national recruiting analyst for Rivals. The Journal’s study, he said, “proves that they’re not going to do that and there is no sure thing.”

The 54% failure rate of five-star players(2004-2006) to be drafted is “quite high” and somewhat surprising, said Cary Caro, an assistant business professor at Xavier University in New Orleans who analyzes and has written about recruiting.

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