The Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets 2011 Recruiting Class; Backs, Receivers, and Athletes

Given my penchant for highlighting a successful football player that was able to fall between the cracks of the infallible stars rating based recruiting services, I would like to start this final recruiting segment with yet another example of their flaws.  This past Super Bowl Sunday there was another zero stars player roaming all over the field making tackles for the soon to be world champion Green Bay Packers.  What is even more incredible than his lack of stars is the fact that he was a “walk on” player to boot.  In essence every football coach in the NCAA missed on this kid too.  So think about this for a moment; you have 0 stars, no college scholarship, and you decide to “walk on” and play football at the University of Southern California Trojans during their incredible run of success under Coach Pete Carroll.  WOW!  That takes more Chutzpah than singling out a player at the age of 17 and telling him that he is a can’t miss college football player ...