Re: Im thinking the recruiting Gurus will rank us.
The drop in "stars", once you get past about the top 15, is very minimal. If you have any experience with sadistics, you'd see that you are averaging a small block of athletes so 1 or 2 athletes can really make an impact on the number of "stars" that you get.
On rivals, we are at 2.22 average stars at 56th. Alabama is at number 15 at 2.89 stars, so we're down .67 of a star to Alabama on average. I don't think that is much seperation, maybe a recruit or two having another star. Here is how they averaged out in the ACC
FSU 3.59
Miami 3.36
Maryland 3.00
BC 2.80
NC State 2.89
NC 2.58
Virginia 2.74
VT 2.74
Clemson 2.38
GT 2.22
Puke 2.08
Wake 2.19
We rank much higher on the defensive side of the ball, if you follow the stars.