Hey, wasn’t David Pollack a three-star recruit?

As far as I’m concerned, Matt Hinton does the Lord’s work with his posts skewering what I refer to as the macro versus the micro approach to recruiting success.  What I mean by that are the people who conflate the individual success story of the plucky obscure signee who becomes an All-American into an overall approach to recruiting.  You know who I mean – the people who claim that they’d rather have a team made up of hard-working two and three-star recruits than chase after the high-profile guys, because, after all, look at all the all-stars who weren’t highly sought after coming out of high school, yada, yada, yada… The next time somebody makes that argument within earshot, send him or her here.  In particular, this: On the other hand, if you consider the initial grade as a kind of investment – a projection of the how likely a player is of becoming an elite contributor compared to rest of the field – well, you’d put your money with the &#...