Five Star Follies: Part II

Rivals.com recently released an article detailing the careers of the high school football recruits they designated as five star players over the last five years. Here is our continuing analysis of that data... In the first part of our series of articles that examined the last five years of highly-rated, five star high school football players we painted the big picture for you as to their rates of success and failure over that period of time. In case you missed it here is a quick recap of what our initial analysis found: Between 2007 and 2011 a small and select group of only 144 players received the five star rating from Rivals.com. The 2009 class was the largest with 33 players making the five star list. The 2010 and 2011 classes were the smallest with only 26 players on the list. In 2008 there were 30 players that received the five star label while in 2007 there were 29. Out of the 100,000 or so high school football players in the U.S. in any given year only 28 players earned th...