Well, 24 commits to 20. To me, team rankings are incredibly useless. When you're trying to combine a bunch of kids who are ranked based on a faulty star system using an even worse team scoring system, you get a bunch of crappy numbers that don't mean anything. There's no decent way to compare recruiting classes so I don't even bother trying. I agree with you there. The star system is definitely faulty because it really all depends upon who attends what camps and has such and such amount of exposure, etc. I think the differences in a 3 and 4 star are minimal. However, when you start getting to 5 stars, then those guys are mostly for real. If you look at all the 5 stars over the past 10 years, a great many are names that you know or were guys drafted in the 1st round. On the same topic, there was an article recently on SEC guys who were mostly 2 stars who were hugely successful. http://espn.go.com/blog/sec/post/_/id/8547/recruiting-nobodies-who-made-it-big-offense They included: Jay Cutler, Vanderbilt Dexter McCluster, Ole Miss Jacob Hester, LSU Sidney Rice, South Carolina Earl Bennett, Vanderbilt Jamaal Anderson, Arkansas Dan Williams, Tennessee DeMeco Ryans, Alabama Patrick Willis, Ole Miss Eric Norwood, South Carolina Javier Arenas, Alabama D.J. Moore, Vanderbilt