If you’ve read Bruins Nation for a while, or heck if you just joined us and have been reading the comments in my article from yesterday about UCLA football’s planned #8CLAP8TH events, you know that I’m a believer in what’s been called the Blue-Chip Ratio.
Every BCS champion since recruiting rankings could be accurately tracked (2005, or four classes after Scout joined Rivals in rating players) has met a benchmark: it’s recruited more blue-chips (four- and five-star players) than lesser-rated players over its four previous signing classes.
And since those blue-chips are rare -- roughly 300 of them per year, with more than 10,000 scholarships to fill nationwide at the FBS level -- the teams that get blue-chips crush those who sign a lower-rated level of recruits.