How Much Does recruiting rankings mean to your team?

Means zero to SCAR in football IMHO.

Basketball is another story because you can completely change a team with one class in basketball.

Hard to argue with the level of athletes alabama is able to put on the field.

When 5 star guys sit the bench on a regular basis...

Rankings don't mean everything, but you do have a statistical advantage. I believe coaching is vastly more important. Knowing how to take a guy that comes in as one position and knowing how to turn them into something else. Knowing what a kid could be just by watching tape of HS.

Coaches are the key. Recruiting follows second.

Mizzou fans care greatly but in reality it means very little for Mizzou since Pinkel's staff normally recruits guys other schools haven't even evaluated let alone the recruiting services.

They are usually very inaccurate for Arkansas.

We don't get the attention from recruiting service because we don't have the intense rival that drives up subscriptions and a small in-state talent base.

Fact:

No team has ever won a NC in the BCS era without at least one top 10 recruiting class.


So, pretty fricking important.

What came first the chicken or the egg?

The more fans who buy subscriptions the more stars your recruits get. The more stars your recruits get get the more fans will subscribe

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They are usually very inaccurate for Arkansas.

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I would say they're very accurate for Arkansas. Arkansas ranks near the bottom of the SEC West in recruiting every year and has zero SEC Championships.

On a micro level its negotiable, but on a large scale it's very important. Coaching is still very important bc your team will turn into 2011/2012 Auburn Tigers.

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It's the 1st and most important ingredient in the developement of a national powerhouse program

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Let's not confuse recruiting rankings with the level of talent on a given roster.

Recruiting rankings are determined by questionable people with zero coaching experience.

I'll take what Spurrier and his staff determine they need, go-after and sign, over what some dumbass like Bobby Burton says, any day of the week.

Here's a fact.

Most recruiting services rank a player based upon three criterion.

1 - Who all has offered.
2 - Speed
3 - Size

... in that order.

Where as most good coaches, and their staffs, rank their prospects as follows:

1 - position need
2 - specific skill set, camp evaluation, interview
3 - work ethic and reputation, on-and-off the field, in and out of the classroom (sic: weight room, extra curricular, etc).
4 - size and speed
5 - locality in relation to the school
6 - word of the local high school coaches
7 - collective judgement of assistant coaches
8 - family history/background

In my opinion, the difference between a number 1 class and a number 10 class isn't that much but you start getting into the teens and twenties I don't see how you can compete on a regular basis.