All of that somehow gets balanced out, however, by the fact that some of the players who don’t have gold-plated resumes coming out of high school or at the beginnings of their college career become diamonds in the rough and develop into outstanding athletes and exceed everyone’s expectations.
Football recruiting and star-ratings are far from an exact science. They say numbers speak for themselves, but what they don’t measure are heart, attitude or how skill and effort will translate at the next competitive level.
ESPN.com has come out with a list of 25 notable college athletes (not exclusive to just football players) who were ceremoniously built up with mounds of hype but who, in reality and in the words of the ESPN.