re: I know there are a lot of people who don't buy into "stars"

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if coaching staffs didn't buy into kids with high star rankings, they'd never stock their cupboard with talent

look at the teams at the top of the star game, and look at how they've performed over the past 5 years

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Coaching staffs do the majority of their talent evaluation during a player's junior year in HS. That's before they get any kind of star ranking on Rivals or Scout or ESPN or wherever. So no, coaching staffs do not buy in to the star system. I have only ever heard of one staff doing that and it was Larry Coker when he was at Miami.