Some of you may be familiar with David Thorpe, formerly of ESPN and the now defunct TrueHoop Network. On his podcast with Henry Abbott, also a victim of ESPN’s latest cuts, Thorpe gave his perspective on recruiting rankings and evaluation. His comments were specifically about basketball, but we’ll apply them to football with equal validity.
Thorpe’s theory is that there are only two levels of recruits: ones and twos. The five-star system, he thinks, is informative without being useful. What’s the difference, really, between a four-star wide receiver and a three star, or between a three and a two?