re: Bama has arguably wasted more elite talent than anyone lately

Stars mean very little. Go back and look at the rivals rankings after the 20th ranked kid in the country. The top end talent they usually get right and then after that they have no idea who is going to be good or not. Its very hard to predict who is going to develop and get better at the age of 18. Go look at USC classes over the past 10 years. They have a ton of highly ranked players that have never even played a down for them. There are busts all over the place, and with the way the world is today with social media and the rankings of high school kids have only blown this further out of context.