re: Bama and 5* Recruits

It's pretty fair not to count ones who weren't eligible for the draft, especially ones who took themselves out of eligibility (by being criminals, quitting, flunking, etc.) The point of any such stat is to demonstrate the ability of a program to develop talent/impress the NFL, and if a player is taken out of the running by factors outside of a given program's control, it's pretty difficult to knock the program for it. (It's like counting early entrants to the draft as knocks on a program's graduation rate -- a kid who jumps at the opportunity to take a job that makes him millions doesn't, in himself, reflect negatively on a university's emphasis on academics. Plenty of straight-A engineering students, for instance, would gladly quit school in their junior year for a million dollar/year engineering job.) Any 5*'s motivation should be to take full advantage of the opportunity presented, not assume statistics will do his job for him. So a legitimate stat in this area would basically have to be prefaced with "All eligible players...."

If a player is processed for reasons of ability/talent without outside factors involved, however, that's a different issue, and reflects negatively on the program's ability to develop talent and/or evaluate it in the process of deciding who to recruit. So those certainly should be counted against the program.